Two centuries on from Waterloo, Britons still battling Napoleon

Two hundred years after the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte is still under attack in Britain, where the image persists of a military genius consumed by a fanaticism comparable with Hitler.

The Emperor of French revolutionaries and regicides continues to strike fear in his neighbors across the English Channel, long after his death on the South Atlantic island of St. Helena, according to British historian and author Andrew Roberts.

"Mothers used to quiet their children with the threat that if you don't watch out, Boney will get you," he said. "There were still children in the 1950s being scared by this particular threat."