WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Elba, Latin Ilva, island off the west coast of Italy, in the Tyrrhenian Sea . Elba has an area of 86 square miles (223 square km) and is the largest island of the Tuscan Archipelago. It is famous as Napoleon’s place of exile in 1814–15. Administratively Elba is part of Tuscany regione, Italy.

Detailed explanation-2: -Napoleon was born on an island, Corsica, in 1769. Water provided an escape route from his catastrophic Egyptian campaign in 1799. He was exiled to another island, Elba, just six miles off the Italian coast, in 1814.

Detailed explanation-3: -On April 11, 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. The future emperor was born in Ajaccio, Corsica, on August 15, 1769.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -PORTOFERRAIO, Elba-Napoleon spent less than 10 months on Elba, but 200 years later, this island off the coast of Tuscany has turned the defeated French emperor’s brief exile here into a reason to celebrate.