Napoleon escapes from Elba

"On 26 February 1815, when the British and French guard ships were absent, Napoleon slipped away from Portoferraio with some 600 men and landed at Golfe-Juan near Antibes on 1 March 1815.

Marshal Ney, now one of Louis' key commanders, had said that Napoleon ought to be brought to Paris in an iron cage, but on 14 March, Ney joined Napoleon with 6,000 men. Five days later, after proceeding through the countryside promising constitutional reform and direct elections to an assembly, to the acclaim of gathered crowds the Emperor triumphantly entered the capital, whence Louis XVIII had recently fled."

From the movie Waterloo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Days#Return_to_France

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[yuggurtt]

"I always hate to compare Napoleon with Hitler, as it seems an insult to the great Emperor and warrior to connect him in any way with a squalid caucus boss and butcher."- Winston Churchill (Commons, 28 Sep. 1944)

[TheWailingdeath]

napoleon may have seemed evil to his enemies but when you consider that the prince consort (george IV i believe) spent 4 years worth of taxes on wine whilst many people were starving in the north, and compare that to napoleon who only ate after all his men and horses ate. i think i would have fought for old boneparte aswell

[GoodyearBandit]

cool he spoke English.

[randomusernamemygod]

@TheWailingdeath George the IV of the Britain if that is who you are referring to is not worth comparing to Napoleon. Seeing as he did not govern Britain in that period but the Lord of Liverpool and the rest of the Government like George Canning. George IV was technically a public figure.

[Koranenmerg]

@Strateg68 Napoleon and his troops were trained in the Ninja-skills.

[Strateg68]

How do you "slip away" with 600 men?

[NapoleonCalland]

@TheWailingdeath Guess who did more to help the poor? "Never did a man ever dispose of so much wealth and keep less of it for himself". (André Maurois, "Napoléon", quoting Napoleon III in "Idées Napoléoniennes")

[biirraann]

What song is this

[POTCMarc101]

VIVA LA NAPOLEON BONAPARTE!!!!!!

[NapoleonCalland]

@expertstrategy He replaced the Bourbons with Joseph because on entering Berlin in 1806 he found a letter from the Spanish PM, Godoy, showing that they'd sided with the Prussians! If he hadn't won at Jena, the Spanish would have attacked France from behind!

[NapoleonCalland]

@dmax631 Blucher had a psychotic hatred of N, but it wasn't new. Blucher was retired from active service twice, once for annoying Frederick the Great, once for annoying N, who'd asked for Blucher to be presented to him in 1806 because he wanted to meet B, who'd impressed him by holding a position on the Baltic, only surrendering when he ran out of ammo. N could have had most of his enemies murdered or executed. The fact is he didn't, just as he pardoned most of them when possible. Unlike them