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Napoleon promoted and honored great men throughout his reign. In addition to comparing himself to various great men, he famously established a Legion of Honor on 19 May 1802 to honor both civilians and soldiers, including non-ethnically French men. Napoleon not only created an Irish Legion in 1803 and later awarded William Lawless and John Tennent the Legion of Honour; he also gave them an Eagle with the inscription L'Independence d'Irlande. He awarded twenty-six of his generals the marshal's baton from 1804 to 1815, and in 1806, he further memorialized his soldiers by deciding to erect a...