Russian Cossacks and peasant partisans slaughtered army stragglers. In the Middle of December, with the Russians in pursuit, the remnants of the Grand Army staggered across the Neman River into East Prussia.In October 1813, allied forces from Austria, Prussia, Russia, and Sweden defeated Napoleon at Leipzig; in November, Anglo-Spanish forces crossed the Pyrenees into France.Finally in the spring of 1814, the allies captured Paris. Napoleon abdicated and was exiled to the tiny island of Elba, off the coast of Italy. The Bourbon dynasty was restored to the throne of France in the person of Louis XVIII, younger brother of Louis XVI.Napoleon, only being 44 years old, didn’t think that his destiny was to die in Elba. On March 1, 1815, he landed on the French coast with a thousand soldiers, and three weeks later he entered Paris to a hero’s welcome. With his desperate attempt to regain power, he instituted the “Hundred Days Rule,” which was a huge failure. This time the allies sent Napoleon to Saint Helena, a lonely island in the South Atlantic a thousand miles off the coast of southern Africa.Napoleon spent the last six years of his life here on the lonely island of St. Helena. One can not say that this man had not accomplished a great deal of things in his lifetime. He only lived to be 50 years of age, but he had done so many things, won so many battles and taken over so many empires....
