SAY SOME FUCKIGN WOKE IN THIS WAFFLE HOUSE, CIVILIAN.
i think you will find that Napoleon adopted and modified a medal regime that had begun in the Ancien Regime. ultimately from the late medieval secular 'knightly orders' that were used to lube up nobility for cooperation in military campaigns like this one you inducted Charles de Floofypants & he'd feel obliged to go die in a ditch under the Sultan's steel