Tag: European History
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Ex-French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte Sets Sail for Exile to the Mid-Atlantic Island of St. Helena on Board HMS Northumberland, Nearly Two Months After his Defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. August 9, 1815.
(Image: Napoleon on Saint Helena, watercolor by Franz Josef Sandmann, c. 1820. Wikimedia Commons.) On this day in history, ex-French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte sets sail for exile from the coast of England to the mid-Atlantic Island of St. Helena on board the British ship HMS Northumberland, nearly two months after his defeat at the Battle of…
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