Hundred Days facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Hundred Days |
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Part of the Napoleonic Wars | |||||||
The Battle of Waterloo, by William Sadler II |
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Seventh Coalition Prussia Hanover Other German states Austria Russia Sweden United Kingdom of the Netherlands Spain Portugal Sardinia Sicily Tuscany French Royalists |
France Naples |
The Hundred Days, is the period between Napoleon Bonaparte's return from exile on Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815 (a period of 111 days). This period is also known as the War of the Seventh Coalition, and includes the Waterloo Campaign and the Neapolitan War.
Images for kids
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The journey of a modern hero, to the island of Elba. Print shows Napoleon seated backwards on a donkey on the road "to Elba" from Fontainebleau; he holds a broken sword in one hand and the donkey's tail in the other while two drummers follow him playing a farewell(?) march.
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Napoleon leaving Elba, painted by Joseph Beaume
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Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon, exhibited in 1880 by Sir William Quiller Orchardson. Orchardson depicts the morning of 23 July 1815, as Napoleon watches the French shoreline recede.
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All the participants of the War of the Seventh Coalition. Blue: The Coalition and their colonies and allies. Green: The First French Empire, its protectorates, colonies and allies.
See also
In Spanish: Cien Días para niños