WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
After his defeat at Waterloo Napoleon was sent to exile on what island?
A
St. Helena
B
Cyprus
C
Australia
D
Crete
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Exiled to the island of Elba, he escaped to France in early 1815 and raised a new Grand Army that enjoyed temporary success before its crushing defeat at Waterloo against an allied force under Wellington on June 18, 1815. Napoleon was subsequently exiled to the island of Saint Helena off the coast of Africa.

Detailed explanation-2: -A small island lost in the middle of the south Atlantic Ocean, St Helena was chosen by the British government as place to exile the deposed Emperor. “The island of St Helena is the ideal place to lock away such a character.

Detailed explanation-3: -Napoleon had been exiled to St. Helena after he was defeated by the British at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

Detailed explanation-4: -On 7 August, Napoleon embarked onto a new ship, Northumberland, and left British waters on 9 August, having never set foot on British soil. After a journey of nine weeks at sea, he arrived at the island of St Helena on 15 October 1815.

Detailed explanation-5: -Helena, he oversees Longwood House, Napoleon Bonaparte’s home in exile from 1815 to 1821, the last years of his life.

Detailed explanation-6: -A few days after his humiliating rout at Waterloo, on June 22, 1815, Napoleon once again abdicated the throne of France. That October, he was exiled to the remote, British-held island of Saint Helena, in the South Atlantic Ocean.

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