Napoleon's Hundred Days (In Our Time)
1815 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Napoleon Bonaparte's temporary return to power in France in 1815, following his escape from exile on Elba . He arrived with fewer than a thousand men, yet three weeks later he had displaced Louis XVIII and taken charge of an army as large as any that the Allied Powers could muster individually.
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Around 1815
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- Greek War of Independence (1821)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Otto von Bismarck (1815)
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Battle of Waterloo (1815)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)