Napoleon's greatest moment?

Sorry @tomholmberg , perhaps I should have wedged my tongue slightly firmer in cheek. No one gives me any credit for not being a war criminal either☹️ Don’t torture little girls, don’t murder prisoners, never legalised slavery, and still they don’t like me. No pleasing some people.

so you compare Picton the the genius Nabulieone?

While Picton was convicted, and suffered damage to his reputation – for instance he was denied an expected elevation to the peerage – the Privy Council decided in January of 1807 that there were no grounds to the charges against him (Epstein, p. 739). The press had cast him variously as the “blood-stained governor” on the one hand, and as a victim of a smear campaign on the other, in which Calderón was made out to be a co-conspirator in his slandering. The city council of Cardiff, Wales, voted in July 2020 to remove a statute of Picton. In its statement, it announced that:

In case Nabulieone would have been a constitutional monarch, an enlightened despot, so as to speak of, he should be under trial as well, but such trivia as advocating torture, despite officially abolished is glossed over.

It proves my point - see Herold, that all his lies fell on fertile ground - so yes instead of 18 brumaire I go now with the genius of his propaganda machine converting a ruthless monarch (as in royalist and betrayer of the Revolution) into altruistic person of good will for the rest of the world, well done Nabulieone.

The introduction of a modern code of law... code civil, code de procédure civile, code de commerce, code d’instruction criminelle and code pénal.

It would have to have been the coronation in December 1805. Others would be the defeat of the Third Coalition at Austerlitz, the defeat of Prussia in 1806 and the following defeat of Russia at Friedland in 1807.

However, most importantly would or should be the remaking of France with his reforms which lasted beyond his reign and his death. Some are still in force today. Fifteen years of restored Bourbon rule certainly didn't change those reforms instituted by Napoleon.

When they should be falling for the British beat Napoleon singlehandedly legend.

Today. 200 years after his death, the gullible are still falling for his legend.

His greatest moment from the grave was when a London mob twice stoned Wellington's Apsley House in 1831.

"In the tumults which broke out in London in 1831 on account of the opposition of the duke and the Tory party to the first Reform Bill, the windows of Apsley House were broken by the mob. In consequence of this, the duke had all his windows cased with iron shutters, like those of shop-fronts in our leading thoroughfares, and made bullet-proof; and though often entreated to have them removed when his popularity returned, he steadily refused to allow the change to be made, as he had no confidence in the smiles of popular favour, and would often say that they were a standing proof of the vanity of the world's applause. With reference to the manner in which the fury of the multitude in the above-mentioned year vented itself on the duke, we glean a little intelligence in the following extract from Mr. Raikes' "Journal:"—"I can remember well," he writes, "the time when the duke returned to England, after his brilliant campaigns, crowned with the battle of Waterloo; at that time he was cheered by the people wherever he went, and lauded to the skies. Afterwards, at the period of the Reform Bill, the fickle people forgot all his services, and constantly hooted him in the streets. One morning, as he was coming from the Tower on horseback, the rascally mob attacked him with so much virulence and malice, that he was exposed to considerable personal danger in the street. I was in that year at a ball given by him at Apsley House to King William IV. and his Queen, when the mob were very unruly and indecent in their conduct at the gates; and on the following days they proceeded to such excesses, that they broke the windows of Apsley House, and did much injury to his property. It was then that he caused to be put up those iron blinds to his windows, which remain to this day as a record of the people's ingratitude. Some time afterwards, when he had regained all his popularity, and began to enjoy that great and high reputation which he now, it is to be hoped, will carry to the grave, he was riding up Constitution Hill, in the Park, followed by an immense mob, who were cheering him in every direction; he heard it all with the most stoical indifference, never putting his horse out of a walk, or seeming to regard them, till he leisurely arrived at Apsley House, when he stopped at the gate, turned round to the rabble, and then pointing with his finger to the iron blinds which still closed the windows, he made them a sarcastic bow, and entered the court without saying a word."

"The shutters remained outside the windows of the house down to the death of the duke in 1852, after which they were removed by his son and successor."

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol4/pp359-375

On second thoughts - his lies he dictated at St. Helena in such clever fashion that they are regarded as facts, even today.

So you see it from your perspective, maybe then best - his death.

From Nabulieone's perspective I would say 18 brumaire.