Napoleons Downfall?

Question

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1.What nations took advantage of Napoleons weakness? What did they do?
2. What happened to Napoleons army at Leipzig? What happened as a result of this outcome?
3. When did Napoleon give up his throne? What happened to him?
4.Who took power in France after Napoleon? Was he popular in France? why?
5. What did Napoleon do as a result of tis situation?
6. What did the European community do when Napoleon returned to France?
7.What happened in the village of Waterloo, Belgium? What did it result in?
8. What was the Hundred Days?
9. What happened to Napoleon after the Hundred Days?

Answer 1

1. Austria, Prussia, Russia, and Britain primarily
Their combined armies pushed Napoleon back in 1813 and 1814. (See Wiki clip below after #2)

2. Leipzig October 16-19, 1813 was a huge battle with several nations fighting France which was weakened after the retreat from Moscow in 1812. Here's a nice bit from Wiki below :

Following Napoleon's disastrous campaign in Russia and his defeats in the Peninsular War, the anti-French forces had cautiously regrouped as the Sixth Coalition, comprising Britain, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Prussia, Austria, Sweden and certain smaller German states. In total, the Coalition could put into the field well over a million troops — indeed by the time of Leipzig, total Allied armies east of the Rhine probably exceeded a million. By contrast Napoleon's forces had dwindled to just a few hundred thousand.

3. By spring 1814, the Allied nations' armies were at the gates of Paris. Napoleon abdicated and was exiled to the island of Elba off the west coast of Italy near his native Corsica.

4. The Bourbon king Louis XVIII was restored to the throne of France by the Allied powers. Louis was not popular in France. The French had executed the last Bourbon king and queen in 1793. They did not want the monarchy back.

5. Napoleon plotted to return to France and did so in March 1815 beginning the "100 days" when Napoleon was back in power as emperor of France.

6. The French welcomed Napoleon back, but the Allied powers declared him an outlaw and declared war on him -
on the man Napoleon himself rather than war on France.

7. Napoleon's French army was defeated by a combined force - mainly British and Prussians - under Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington on June 18th, 1815.

8. See 5 above.

9. Napoleon fled to the coast of France after Waterloo but was captured by the British and exiled for good on the island of St. Helena off the west coast of Africa where he died of stomach cancer about five years later.