Napoleon's Return to France

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Napoleon returned to home to France with only about 10% of his Army still alive. He lost most of his soldiers during the Great White Death, which is one of the largest French disasters to date. Since all the coalition allies knew he was in trouble, they decided to follow him and take him out while he was down and burned out. This is when he decided to give himself up and be exiled to Elba with 1000 guards. Before he left though, he promised his men that he, “… would return when the flowers bloomed.” And that was a promise that Napoleon kept. When he returned to France he came face to face with Marshal Nay but as an enemy and not a friend. Marshal Nay had started working for the new King of France, King Louis XVIII and built one of the finest military forces called The Men of The Fifth(who was mostly made out of once Napoleon supporters). Nay told the King that he would go get Napoleon and bring him back in a cage. Nay meet Napoleon at Grenoble with Nay’s Men of the Fifth. Even though the men of the Fifth were there to take Napoleon back to King Louis XVIII, they fell at Napoleon’s feet and welcomed back their Emperor. Marshal Nay wanted to surrender by throwing his sword down but, Napoleon told him that he would need all his good generals around him as they marched toward Brussels. After hearing of his soldiers going back to Napoleon, Louis XVIII got out of France fast, which wasn’t easy seeing as he was so big. On their march to Brussels, Napoleon, Nay, and Grouchy fought Blucher, who was from Prussa, at the battle of Ligny. They believed that they won but what they didn’t know at the time was that Blucher pulled back on purpose. Napoleon did notice how well Blucher fought though and wanted to keep an eye on him, so he to... ... middle of paper ... ...e and he is captured. Marshal Ney is shot and Grouchy is hung. The Empire is dissolved and the European countries that were conquered by Napoleon, reclaim their borders. Also the congress of Vienna was reestablished. Napoleon tells them he does not want to go back to Elba, that instead he would like to go to America to see Thomas Jefferson and meet the Indians there. The British agree and they even put him on a ship. Napoleon sensed something was wrong but it was too late, they had set him out on St Helen Island with only two guards. He was basically told to have a nice life. Some say he died of a stomach cancer and others say that it was arsenic in the wallpaper that was in his one room house that had started leaking through the walls, either way it was a slow death. This was the ending the great Napoleon Bonaparte, one of the greatest military minded men ever.

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