Clausewitz does not agree with your assessment of Napoleon's abilities:

'You have to have seen the steadfastness of one of the forces trained and led by Bonaparte...seen them under fierce and unrelenting fire-to get some sense of what can be accomplished by troops steeled by long experience in danger, in whom a proud record of victories has instilled the noble principle of placing the highest demands on themselves. As an idea alone it is unbelievable.'-On War, translated by Michael Howard and Peter Paret, 170.

General Sir Archibald Wavell commented on Napoleon taking command of the Armee d'Italie:

'If you discover how...[Bonaparte] inspired a ragged, mutinous, half-starved army and made it fight as it did, how he dominated and controlled generals older and more experienced than himself, then you will have learnt something.'