Hundred Days

Hundred Days, Or the war of the Seventh Coalition, Was a period between March 20, 1815, the date on which Napoleon arrived in Paris after escaping from exile on Elba, and July 8, 1815, the date of the return of Louis XVIII to Paris.

Hundred Days
Part of the Napoleonic Wars
The Battle of Waterloo, by William Sadler II
Date 10 March to 8 July 1815 Location France, present-day Belgium, present-day Italy Result Coalition victory, Treaty of Paris, end of the Napoleonic Wars
Belligerents
Seventh Coalition United Kingdom Prussia Hanover Other German states Austria Russia Sweden United Kingdom of the Netherlands Spain Portugal Sardinia Sicily Tuscany French Royalists	France Naples

Hundred Days Media

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  The journey of a modern hero, to the island of Elba. Print shows Napoleon seated backwards on a donkey on the road "to Elba" from Fontainebleau; he holds a broken sword in one hand and the donkey's tail in the other while two drummers follow him playing a farewell(?) march.

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  Napoleon with the Elba Squadron of volunteers from the 1st Polish Light Cavalry of his Imperial Guard

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  Napoleon leaving Elba, painted by Joseph Beaume

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  The brig Inconstant, under Captain Taillade and ferrying Napoleon to France, crosses the path of the brig Zéphir, under Captain Andrieux. Inconstant flies the tricolour of the Empire, while Zéphir flies the white ensign of the House of Bourbon.

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  Strategic situation in Western Europe in 1815: 250,000 Frenchmen faced a coalition of about 850,000 soldiers on four fronts. In addition, Napoleon had to leave 20,000 men in Western France to reduce a royalist insurrection.

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  Plenipotentiaries at the Congress of Vienna

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  A portion of Belgium with some places marked in colour to indicate the initial deployments of the armies just before the commencement of hostilities on 15 June 1815, with British forces in red, Prussians in green, and French in blue

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  Map of the Waterloo campaign

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  Invasion of France by the Seventh Coalition armies in 1815

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  ChateaudeMalmaison

References

• Baines, Edward, History of the Wars of the French Revolution, from the breaking out of the wars in 1792, to, the restoration of general peace in 1815, volume II (of II), Longman, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818