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Cossacks in fact used guerilla tactics during the French invasion of Russia
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** The Russian Cossacks are also strangely shown using the same kind of guerrilla warfare tactics the Spanish and Portuguese peasants used against the occupying French forces (which is how the very term "guerrilla warfare" was coined).
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* In the film, UsefulNotes/MaximilienRobespierre is arrested in the parliament immediately after his regime is overthrown. In real life, he escaped to take shelter with some of his partisans elsewhere in Paris, and the arrest happened several hours later. The exact circumstances in which he ended up shot in the jaw (either a BungledSuicide as depicted or someone else shooting him) during the arrest are still not known, so the film has some leeway on that detail.
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* In the film, UsefulNotes/MaximilienRobespierre is arrested in the parliament immediately after his regime is overthrown. In real life, he escaped to take shelter with some of his partisans elsewhere in Paris, and the arrest happened several hours later. The exact circumstances in which he ended up shot in the jaw (either a BungledSuicide as depicted or someone else shooting him) during the arrest are still not known, so the film has some leeway on that detail.[[note]]Robespierre was shot at a downward angle from his right cheekbone to his lower left jaw, which would be most consistent with someone bumping his elbow up as he tried to shoot himself in the temple.[[/note]]
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* To make Napoleon appear [[LousyLoversAreLosers sexually inept]], the film also omits all but a vague, dismissive mention of his more than 20 other mistresses. Notably absent are Pauline Fourès (whom Napoleon seduced in Egypt in response to Josephine’s own affairs), Elisabeth de Vaudey (a lady-in-waiting whom Joséphine caught with Napoleon just weeks before their coronation), and Marie Walewska (a Polish noblewoman who influenced Napoleon on Polish affairs and bore him a second bastard son, Alexandre Colonna-Walewski).
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* To make Napoleon appear [[LousyLoversAreLosers sexually inept]], the film also omits all but a vague, dismissive mention of his more than 20 other mistresses. Notably absent are Pauline Fourès (whom Napoleon seduced in Egypt in response to Josephine’s own affairs), Elisabeth de Vaudey (a lady-in-waiting whom Joséphine caught with Napoleon just weeks before their coronation), and Marie Walewska (a Polish noblewoman who influenced Napoleon on Polish affairs and bore him a second bastard son, Alexandre Colonna-Walewski).Colonna-Walewski, whose family has since formed Napoleon's direct -- albeit illegitimate -- known bloodline).
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** The Buonaparte family were socially prominent (though [[ImpoverishedPatrician cash-poor]]) UsefulNotes/{{Corsica}}n gentry and Napoleon's father Carlo was an important political leader on the island. It was due to this social rank (especially after Carlo was granted a title by the French government) that young Napoleon was able to attend the elite military school of Brienne on the mainland. Other important figures of the Revolution started with less.[[note]]Jean Bernadotte, for instance, was a lawyer’s son who rose from private to Marshal and eventually King of Sweden. Perhaps more impressive was Andre Massena, who rose from a mere shopkeeper's son to Marshal.[[/note]]
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** The Buonaparte family were socially prominent (though [[ImpoverishedPatrician cash-poor]]) UsefulNotes/{{Corsica}}n gentry and Napoleon's father Carlo was an important political leader on the island. It was due to this social rank (especially after Carlo was granted a title by the French government) that young Napoleon was able to attend the elite military school of Brienne on the mainland. Other important figures of the Revolution started with less.[[note]]Jean Bernadotte, for instance, was a lawyer’s son who rose from private to Marshal and eventually King of Sweden. Perhaps more impressive was were Andre Massena, who rose from a mere shopkeeper's son to Marshal.Marshal (others also shared this almost serf-status background), and Jean-de-Dieu Soult, who was also a lawyer's son and retired as the last Marshal General of France.[[/note]]
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** The film indulges in a spurious “Napoleon was short” gag when he awkwardly requires a stool to get face-to-face with an Egyptian mummy. Napoleon was actually of average height for the time and coincidentally almost identical to the average Egyptian mummy.
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** The film indulges in a spurious “Napoleon was short” [[note]]This stems from British propaganda which took advantage of the lack of international standardisation in units of measure at the time. The French inch was notably longer than the British/Imperial inch leading Napoleon to be seemingly shorter on paper to a Briton than he actually was in person. Had they ever met, Napoleon would have towered over his contemporary military hero, Admiral Horatio Nelson.[[/note]] gag when he awkwardly requires a stool to get face-to-face with an Egyptian mummy. Napoleon was actually of average height for the time and coincidentally almost identical to the average Egyptian mummy.
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** The Buonaparte family were socially prominent (though [[ImpoverishedPatrician cash-poor]]) UsefulNotes/{{Corsica}}n gentry and Napoleon's father Carlo was an important political leader on the island. It was due to this social rank (especially after Carlo was granted a title by the French government) that young Napoleon was able to attend the elite military school of Brienne on the mainland. Other important figures of the Revolution started with less.[[note]]Jean Bernadotte, for instance, was a lawyer’s son who rose from private to Marshal and eventually King of Sweden.[[/note]]
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** The Buonaparte family were socially prominent (though [[ImpoverishedPatrician cash-poor]]) UsefulNotes/{{Corsica}}n gentry and Napoleon's father Carlo was an important political leader on the island. It was due to this social rank (especially after Carlo was granted a title by the French government) that young Napoleon was able to attend the elite military school of Brienne on the mainland. Other important figures of the Revolution started with less.[[note]]Jean Bernadotte, for instance, was a lawyer’s son who rose from private to Marshal and eventually King of Sweden. Perhaps more impressive was Andre Massena, who rose from a mere shopkeeper's son to Marshal.[[/note]]
