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

Once master over an empire of seventy million people, he would now become the emperor of the tiny island of Elba. His enemies thought Napoleon's exile would bring peace to Europe. Napoleon had ...

On March 20, 1815 Napoleon arrived in Paris after defying fate, fleeing the island of Elba to regain the throne ... During his exile he admitted that if he had been the winner, the first thing ...

On March 20, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte returned to Paris after escaping his exile on Elba, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule. • In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel about slavery ...

However, after his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon's fate was sealed, and he was exiled once more-this time to the far-off island of St. Helena. His first exile on Elba inspired ...

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 ...