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 ...

Instead, they sent him back into exile and took no ... of nearly all of Europe, Napoleon found himself confined to an island ten miles long and six miles wide. On Elba, he had at least been ...

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 ...

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 ...