{"id":74079,"date":"2018-10-03T14:32:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T12:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.napoleon-cologne.fr\/the-arrival-of-napoleon-at-st-helena\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T17:49:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T16:49:10","slug":"the-arrival-of-napoleon-at-st-helena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.napoleon-cologne.fr\/en\/the-arrival-of-napoleon-at-st-helena\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arrival of Napoleon at St. Helena"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”3″ top_padding=”2″ bottom_padding=”2″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″][vc_column column_width_use_pixel=”yes” gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/1″ column_width_pixel=”900″][vc_custom_heading text_size=”h1″ text_weight=”300″ text_height=”fontheight-1-6″ text_color=”color-150243″ separator=”yes” sub_reduced=”yes”]Following the Hundred Days (from March to July 1815) – the short period in which Napoleon regained power after his second abdication – the decisive defeat of Waterloo (June 22nd, 1815) is paid a heavy price by victors. The casualties were enough to prove that Napoleon represented a threat to future European peace unless he was sent to a reclusive land far from everything. For the Emperor, even vanquished, seemed to have the same determination as the phoenix to reborn from ashes.[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h3″ text_size=”h4″ text_height=”fontheight-168105″ text_color=”color-150243″]Exile Required by the European Powers.[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text]While the defeat of Waterloo sign the imminent end of the Hundred Days, Napoleon surrendered voluntarily to the English who has the responsibility to choose his place of exile. While the fallen Emperor hopes to be sent to the United States, Great Britain is responsible for keeping him in good guard before the place where he will be sent is determined. For the allies and signatories of the Treaty of Paris (which acts the first abdication of Bonaparte on February 10th, 1763) are united in their intransigence in sending Napoleon where he will be totally and certainly unable to return to Europe to sow – according to their fear – disorder and chaos. At the same time, the allies formed by the European rulers do not savour the fervent support received by Napoleon during this last period.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image media=”74085″ caption=”yes” media_lightbox=”yes” media_width_percent=”100″ lbox_title=”yes” lbox_caption=”yes”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Its perfume inherited from the French Revolution does not, indeed, have the leisure to please them which is confirmed by Bonaparte\u2019s support everywhere in Europe. This support sees in this general having started with nothing one of the most important characters of his time, a precursor for a “modern administration and justice, for the meritocracy and the revolutionary principle of equality before the law. (Alan Forrest, in Napoleon at St. Helena, The Conquest of Memory, Gallimard \/ Army Museum). In this context, the choice of St. Helena does not appear as obvious as a relief. Behind an altruism of facade that justified this choice by a healthy climate and a distance that would to treat fallen Emperor with a particular indulgence, hides a real desire to isolate the general on a land surrounded by much more waves than his native corsican island.<\/span><\/p>\n

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