Then, in late February 1815, Europe received a shock: The audacious Napoleon had left Elba and ... the last three days of the Waterloo Campaign. Map by EOSGIS.COM A double battle took place ...

Napoleon’s Wars: An International History, 1803–1815, by Charles Esdaile (Viking ... seeks to dispel competing myths and understand both the man and his impact on Europe. All history raises the ...

By mid-1815, Napoleon had returned to mainland Europe and raised an army ... between Napoleon and his enemies — had begun. In this map, the Coalition countries and their overseas holdings ...

Le Monde explores how the wars that marked Europe's history ... Of course, in 1815, it was at Waterloo that the guns fell. The coalition victory was decisive, and Napoleon was no more than a ...