On March 1, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte, the French Emperor who had been defeated a year earlier, returned to France after a year of exile. Historian John Schmidt recalls this moment in history which ...

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Instead, they sent him back into exile and took no chances that ... who insisted on calling Napoleon General Bonaparte. Only one weapon was left him — words. With words, he would launch his ...

If it could happen in France, it could happen anywhere. Vintage engraving of Napoleon Bonaparte at Auxonne, in the Cote-d'Or department in the Burgundy region of eastern France, 1788. From the ...

During his exile he admitted that if he had been ... themselves to raising 150,000 men in order to defeat Napoleon. The only chance Bonaparte had of causing this alliance to fail was to prevent ...

It is up to me to give them an example." The battle at Lodi convinced Napoleon Bonaparte that he was a man of destiny. "From that moment," he said, "I foresaw what I might be. Already I felt the ...

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‘The Exile’s Departure’ courtesy of: Torre Abbey Historic House and Art Gallery, Torquay, copyright Torbay Council. Following his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo (1815) Napoleon ...

In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) escaped from his exile on the island of Elba and headed to Paris with his troops. When he landed on the French mainland, a French newspaper referred to him ...