Napoleon Bonaparte, France’s famed military commander and emperor, formally gave up his throne. Under the Treaty of ...

During the last months of 1814, Napoleon grew bored playing at Emperor of Elba. He never took his eye off France, where the Allies had made the mistake of restoring an eager but weak Bourbon king ...

He wished, he said, "to reside in a country house near London ... all of Europe, Napoleon found himself confined to an island ten miles long and six miles wide. On Elba, he had at least been ...