Two hundred years ago today, on Feb. 26, 1815, just short of a year after ... but one that ended in a second defeat, at Waterloo, and a second exile to an even more remote island — Saint Helena ...

Then, in late February 1815, Europe received a shock ... (See also: How the Battle of Waterloo changed the world.) This 1874 oil painting by Félix Philippoteaux shows one of the last French ...

During his exile he admitted that if he had been the winner, the first thing he would have done was to dissolve the two legislative chambers he had created. Waterloo, in June 1815, the battle that ...

The defeat of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 is widely believed to ... rule and lived the rest of his life in exile on the remote island of Saint Helena.

After his 1815 defeat at the Battle of Waterloo (in what is now Belgium), he was forced into exile on the remote island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic, where he died in 1821. While Bonaparte ...

The deadly battle, which took place near Brussels in 1815, put an end to the ... and he spent the rest of his life in exile. An estimated 20,000 men died at Waterloo; but after the smoke ...

Napoleon Bonaparte’s Waterloo army was the last he would ever lead into combat. Returning from exile in March 1815 to a country riven by factionalism and exhausted by two decades of almost unremitting ...