The Tragedy of St. Helena Part 16

Louis XVIII. arrives at Paris.

May 4. Napoleon arrives at Elba.

May 29. Death of Josephine.

1815. Mar. 1. Napoleon escapes from Elba and lands at Cannes.

Mar. 20. Napoleon arrives at Fontainebleau.

Mar. 22. Napoleon is joined by all the Army.

Mar. The Allies sign a treaty against him.

Mar. 29. Napoleon abolishes the slave trade.

June 12. Napoleon leaves Paris for the Army.

June 18. Battle of Waterloo.

June 20. Napoleon returns to Paris.

June 22. Abdicates in favour of his son.

July 3. He arrives at Rochefort, intending to embark for America.

July 3. Louis XVIII. re-enters Paris.

July 15. Napoleon surrenders to Captain Maitland, of the _Bellerophon_, at Rochefort.

Aug. 8. Is transferred at Torbay to the _Northumberland_, and, with Admiral Sir George c.o.c.kburn, sails for St. Helena.

Oct. 15. Arrives at St. Helena, to remain for life.

Dec. 7. Execution of Marshal Ney.

1816. Jan. 12. Family of Bonaparte excluded _for ever_ from France by the Law of Amnesty.

1821. May 5. Death of Napoleon.

1836. Oct. 29. Attempted insurrection by Louis Napoleon (afterwards Emperor).

1837. May 8. Amnesty proclaimed for political offences.

1838. "Idees Napoleoniennes" published by Prince Louis Napoleon.

1840. May 12. The Chambers decree the removal of Napoleon's remains from St. Helena.

Oct. 15. Exhumation of Napoleon's remains.

Nov. 30. Arrival of _Belle Poule_ frigate at Cherbourg with remains on board.

1840. Dec. 15. Remains deposited in the Hotel des Invalides.[33]

Aug. 6. Descent of Louis Napoleon, General Montholon, and fifty followers at Vimeraux, near Boulogne.

Oct. 6. The Prince captured and sentenced to imprisonment for life.

1841. Aug. 15. Bronze statue of Napoleon placed on the column of the Grande Armee, Boulogne.

1846. May 25. Louis Napoleon escapes from Ham.

1847. Oct. 10. Jerome Bonaparte returns to France, after an exile of thirty-two years.

1848. June 13. Election of Louis Napoleon to the National a.s.sembly.

Sept. 26. Louis Napoleon takes his seat in the National a.s.sembly.

1857. Longwood, the residence of Napoleon Bonaparte at St. Helena, bought for 180,000 francs.

1860. June 24. Jerome Bonaparte (the Emperor's uncle) dies, aged 76.

1861. Mar. 31. Napoleon's body finally placed in the crypt of the Hotel des Invalides.

FOOTNOTES:

[33] The ceremony was witnessed by about 1,000,000 persons and 150,000 soldiers a.s.sisted at the obsequies. No relatives of the Emperor were present, as at this time the various members of the Bonaparte family were either proscribed and in exile or in prison.