On March 31, 1841, after countless battles and tricks, the anti-French coalition army finally stepped into the gates of Paris as he wished, and although Napoleon was particularly strong, the soldiers were loyal to his orders, and the people still cheered and supported, Napoleon looked at everything in front of him, and his face was bitter, because he knew that the trend was gone, and his life was at stake.
Elba Island is located between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Ligurian Sea, the island is beautiful and sparsely populated, it is a good place for retirement, suitable for taking. The repulsed tyrant who was rehabilitated mysteriously disappeared in the middle of the year of recuperation.
The Anti-French League, which was not exterminated, even politely retained Napoleon's title of emperor, but his territory was only Elba, a small island of 223 square kilometers, which was ironic compared with the former European continent. Even more hilarious, the restored Bourbons also gave Napoleon two million francs a year in the name of the emperor.
Unlike the hypocritical top brass of the Anti-French League, the inhabitants of Elba welcomed and enthusiastically embraced, and although there were only six hundred soldiers to follow, Napoleon's psychology was full of warmth and rekindled his confidence.
Where Napoleon was present, prosperity and revival were bound to flourish, and because of Napoleon's arrival, the small island of Elba immediately became the focus of the world's attention, as if it had become the center of Europe, the original dilapidated roads were repaired, and even trade flourished.
On February 26, 1815, after a few months of silence on the island of Elba, Napoleon regrouped and marched towards Paris, the "heart of Europe", and the inhabitants of the island, although unwilling, still sent their most sincere blessings, because they knew that a figure like Napoleon would not live long, and along the way, many former subordinates came to vote, and surrounded him again to become the supreme commander of the army.
In June 1815, in the face of Napoleon, who was about to rise again, the Anti-French Alliance was anxious, but also mobilized a large number of troops in an attempt to subdue this fierce tiger in a world war, so that he had no possibility of turning over. At the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon was defeated. Return to Paris again and repeat the abdication.
Although the people wept bitterly, they were helpless about this fact, and the anti-French alliance also learned its lesson and did not dare to be careless. He re-chose a remote and isolated island, trying to use the method of cage to make him no longer able to turn over.
One might ask, why didn't napoleon kill a hundred?
The Same idea, the Anti-French League has thought about it a thousand times, but no one or country has dared to make such an attempt. Napoleon, the most inspiring natural leader of France in a few hundred years besides Joan of Arc, was admired and loved by the people at the highest level ever in France
Therefore, as long as someone raises his arms in the name of revenge for Napoleon, the European continent will never be peaceful.
The isolated island of St. Helena was suspended on the endless Atlantic Ocean, and the nearest soil was the drought, rain, poverty and backwardness of Africa, a distance of two thousand kilometers, and in that era, even if the road went smoothly, it had to starve to death in the middle of the road. Therefore, by arranging Napoleon there, the European magnates could sit back and relax, even if Napoleon grew wings, he could not fly out of the vast Atlantic Ocean.
St. Helena is less than ten percent of Chongming Island, only about 120 square kilometers, but due to the limitations of topographic geography, its actual area is much smaller than the data area.
The red logo is St. Helena
And even more infuriatingly,
When Napoleon first landed on the Holy Island, he still maintained an optimistic and high-spirited mood, exercised from time to time, maintained a strong physique, and practiced English hard, in order to "repay" the British "enthusiasm" for him after the comeback.
But this time, unlike Elba, there were no soldiers, no retinues, no enthusiastic people cheering, and no secret messages delivered through the bustling commerce. No one came to see him, there were no rumors or whispers, and at this time he could not do anything even if he had more strategies, he was like a kite with a broken line, and he lost contact with the European continent forever. Napoleon was shaken, and his hopes began to be dashed.
Napoleon and Joseph
On May 5, 1821, Napoleon, who had been fighting for six years, finally died alone on the Holy Island, with no one to collect corpses and no one to care, only the old European magnates sighed with relief and triumphant mockery. Napoleon died at the age of 52, a hero born in Corsica who died on the island of St. Helena, and finally could not get rid of the mercy of fate. But on second thought, who in the world can escape the whims of fate?
A hundred years later, the autopsy finally returned the European lion a justice, it turned out that Napoleon was not succumbed to fate, he did not give up his struggle, he was poisoned. After all, there is only one Napoleon in the world, and he has iron ambition and will, but his entourage does not necessarily have.