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Napoleon Bonaparte, the former French ruler who once ruled an empire
that stretched across Europe, dies as a British prisoner on the remote
island of Saint Helena in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
The Corsica-born Napoleon, one of the greatest military strategists in
history, rapidly rose in the ranks of the French Revolutionary Army
during the late 1790s. By 1799, France was at war with most of Europe,
and Napoleon returned home from his Egyptian campaign to take over the
reigns of the French government and save his nation from collapse. After
becoming first consul in February 1800, he reorganized his armies and
defeated Austria. In 1802, he established the Napoleonic Code, a new
system of French law, and in 1804 was crowned emperor of France in Notre
Dame Cathedral. By 1807, Napoleon controlled an empire that stretched
from the River Elbe in the north, down through Italy in the south, and
from the Pyrenees to the Dalmatian coast.
Beginning in 1812, Napoleon began to encounter the first significant
defeats of his military career, suffering through a disastrous invasion
of Russia, losing Spain to the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsula War,
and enduring total defeat against an allied force by 1814. Exiled to the
island of Elba, he escaped to France in early 1815 and raised a new
Grand Army that enjoyed temporary success before its crushing defeat at
Waterloo against an allied force under Wellington on June 18, 1815.
Napoleon was subsequently exiled to the island of Saint Helena off the
coast of Africa. Six years later, he died, most likely of stomach
cancer, and in 1840 his body was returned to Paris, where it was
interred in the Hotel des Invalides.
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