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I don't quite get it. Apparently, Napoleon's height was ridiculed and used for english propaganda, but I often hear that actually, he wasn't a small person. I looked it up, wikipedia says he was 1.68 m. That's damn short though.
No, not always. There were fluctuations depending on several factors, nutrition being one (and an important one).
Still, 1.68 seems just tiny ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I cannot relate to feet and inches for height, I'm all but used to imperial units.
All I am saying though is that 1.68 is very small from my perspective and if that's the average height back around 1800, people where tiny then.