Little Corporal

Napoleon Bonaparte first gained fame when he helped France wrest an unlikely victory against the Austrians in Italy in 1796—earning him the nickname the “Little Corporal.”

A local innkeeper cooked him such a scrumptious scramble that the next day, the Little Corporal requested that all the eggs in the village be gathered and made into a whopping omelet for his soldiers.

Feared, celebrated and controversial, the Corsican-born statesman acquired many nicknames including “the Tiny Tyrant”, “Little Boney” and “the Little Corporal”.

"The Six Thatchers," the first episode of the new season, is partly based on Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons," with busts of Britain's Iron Lady replacing those of France's Little Corporal.

Who would have ever heard of the "Little Corporal" had it not been for the French Revolution, then there would not have been any "Napoleon the maker of Kings."