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 ...

Waterloo cements our dominance of the seas, and with them the 19th century. Napoleon lives out the rest of his days in exile on the island ... Uniforms in 1815 are bright and colourful.

Witnessing Waterloo. “Clever ... As Europe was enveloped in crisis after Napoleon’s escape from exile in March 1815, he demanded that De Lancey be re-assigned to his staff.

Napoleon feasted on fine wine and huge amounts of meat in his island exile after defeat at Waterloo in 1815. The daily allowance on St Helena was 45 bottles of wine and 100lbs of meat ...

A study published June 17, nearly 207 years to the day after the epic Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815, suggests that ... to power after secretly escaping exile on the island of Elba.

When Napoleon was infamously defeated at Waterloo in 1815, the conflict left a battlefield ... as emperor of France in 1814, ending up in exile on the island of Elba in the Mediterranean.

It is a conflict which sent Napoleon into exile for the second and final time. The Battle of Waterloo, which was fought in a village of the same name in Belgium on June 18, 1815, saw a multi ...

1815, when an allied army under the command of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington met forces under the command of Emperor Napoleon on the battlefield at Waterloo. Napoleon, fresh out of exile ...

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.