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 ...

It arrived from Napoleon from the island of Elba in March 1815 ... It was just a facade. During his exile he admitted that if he had been the winner, the first thing he would have done was ...

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 ...

1814: Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as emperor of the French and was banished to the island of Elba. (Napoleon later escaped from Elba and returned to power in ...

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 ...

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 ...