Some of the civilian carnage Napoleon and his troops wrought in northern Italy: “Napoleon stormed the city, and every armed man was immediately killed... He turned the city over for a 24-hour spree of rape, looting and murder.” 
Some of the civilian carnage Napoleon and his troops wrought in the Middle East: “Jaffa was sacked, in midst of a pitiless massacre that Napoleon never explained with anything other than weasel words about his inability to cope with a mass surrender.”
(These are from: washingtonpost.com/entertainment/…)
Napoleon’s failure to reconquer Haiti was “the most disastrous military and political fiasco of his career” before the Russian invasion:
Napoleon pitched his reconquest of Haiti to the U.S. “as a thinly disguised racist crusade to save the world from black anarchy.”
“Jefferson was increasingly convinced the French could not win [in Haiti], and that it would backfire on them. He was not alone.”
Haiti’s defeat of Napoleon’s forces meant that “France’s only truly valuable colony had been lost for ever.”
“Napoleon showed a general indifference to slavery, per se: he made it his policy to leave it in place in the French colonies in the Indian Ocean, and allowed it to be reestablished in Martinique and Guadeloupe”
Napoleon’s plebiscite on the creation of the French Empire was “rigged in the approved manner... The real point, however, is that 65% of the [French] electorate abstained.”
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