The period of "The Hundred Days"

The period of "the hundred days" starting on March 20, when Napoleon's return to Paris from his exile in Elba, and ends on June 28, 1815, when the second restoration of Louis XVIII as King of France.

Napoleon arrived without firing a single shot and acclaimed by the people, raising a regular army of 140,000 men and a volunteer force that quickly rose to about 200,000 soldiers.

Re-established himself in Paris, he promulgated a new constituti

on, more democratic and liberal than the constitution during the empire. Many veterans came to his call, starting over the battle against the Allies. The result was the Belgian campaign, which ended with defeat at the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815, the French army had not succeeded in driving Wellington's allied forces of the hill where they had become strong. Once the Prussians came, attacking the French right flank increasing number, the crux of Napoleon's strategy of dividing the enemy armies had failed, and his army was driven from his positions by the advance of the allies combined.

The people of Paris supported him in the fight but the politicians withdrew their support, so he abdicated in favor of his son Napoleon II. He went to Rochefort where capitulated to the captain of the British ship Bellerophon.

Napoleon was imprisoned and exiled by the British to the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic, October 15, 1815. There, with a small group of followers, he dictated his memoirs and criticized his captors.

Battle of Waterloo