FRIDAY, AUGUST Z.i, 1323
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THE WORLD'S
GREAT EVENTS
ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE
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( by Dodd, Mead & Company.)
Napoleon Bonaparte
(Part IV)
EUROPE, for the first time in twen
ty years, could rest In peace and
repair its Bhattered fortunes. Napo
leon, who had been the "bogle man"
, of a whole scared continent, was beat
en by sheer force of numbers; dis
owned by his own people; and safely
towed away on a distant Island,
where he could annoy no one. Small
wonder that there was thanksgiving
in Europe!
But the calm , was soon broken.
Barely ten . months after the allies
wad itf.visoned him on Elba, Napo
leon escaped. . With 1,000 of his "Old
"Guard" he landed France, March 1,
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the country like wildfire. The French
nation which, a year earlier, had
groaned under his yoke, went mad
with Joy. Louis XVIII had been a
'tupid, unpopular . king. After a
quarter century of military glory and
endless excitemenf it had been hard
for France to settle down to humdrum
peaceful existence. People spoke of
Napoleon as an almost Immortal hero.
. With one accord army and populace
greeted their returned emperor with
a frenzy of Joy. He moved north
ward prepared for opposition. But he
met with none. His journey to Paris
was a triumphal march. Soldiers sent,
to arrest him flocked to his standard."
The gates were everywhere thrown
open to the 'Corsican. Poor old Louis
XVIII fled for his life, and Napoleon
'entered the French capital without
striking a blow. In his absence peo
ple had forgotten his tyranny and self
ishness and the havoc he , had
wrought They remembered only his
glory, magnetism and genius. He was
again their idol.
But the Napoleon who returned
from exile was not the same sort of
man who had overawed Europe. His
early life was beginning .to tell on
Mm. He. could no IdDeer. coneenfwtt
his, thoughts, niako up "his mim
quickly, nor oven keep awnke nt erlt-"
leal moment?). Me was living solely
on his past fame.
The "Hundred Pays" now set In.
By modifying soum of his former
despotism the emperor won over to
him those j whose memories had at
first proved stronger than their en
thusiasm. The Royalists crept out of
sight and bided their time. But the
great body of the empire rallied about
their former tyrant, eager to follow
him. against the whole universe. And
they had not long to wait for a chance
to prove their devotion. For the al
lies again rushed to arms, putting an
army of 700,000 men into the field.
Napoleon could muster barely 200,000
men for active service. Yet, to save
France from a second Invasion,5 he
hurried his troops into Belgium, where
the English, Dutch, Brunswickers, etcM
under the duke of Wellington and the
Prussians unaer Marshal Blucher,
were encamped. .
Napoleon . knew Wellington and
Blucher would try to unite at Char
lerol ; so he planned to get there ahead
of them, thr.ash them each in turn and
then march eastward, where the Aus
trian and Russian armies were gath
ering. The plan wr.s worthy of Na
poleon at his best. But its execution
showed the pastworthy Corsican at
his worst. He beat the first corps of
the Prussian army at Zlethen, June
13, and seized Charlerol. Then he
sent part of his army, under Ney,
against Wellington. TJie two met at
Quatrebras, June 16. After a hard
battle Ney was repulsed, but Welling
ton was forced to fall back on the
heights of St. Jean, near the Belgian
village " of Waterloo. Meantime Na
poleon, with the remainder of the
French army, met the Prussians, un
der Blucher, at Li gny and utterly de
feated them, killing 12,000. It was the
last of the emperor's innumerable bril
liant victories. He sent General
Grouchy with 33,000 men in pursuit
of the flying Prussians (in the wrong
direction, as it happened), and him
self started after Wellington. The
Trench reached Waterloo late on June
17, 1815. The next day they attacked
Wellington's army in one of the most
bloody and epoch-making battles ever
fought. ' ,
Out of all Wellington's great army
only 24,000 were English, the rest be-
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The battle had lasted eight and one
half hours. France had lost 31.000
men, the allies 23,000. Napoleon's
star had set. Ills cause was for
ever lost. Airaln he abdicated !in
favor of his son, and threw himself
on England's mercy. ,
By a stroke of diplomacy that Is
variously described as a necessary
measure and as a flagrant breach of
trust, the man who for twenty yeara
had defied the whole world was sent
to the island of St. Helena, and was
kept there under strict guard until
in May, 1821, he died of cancer of
the stomach.
So perished Napoleon Bonaparte,
genius, charlatan, wonder-worker
"holdup man" of Europe one of th
greatest men that ever lived. A man
however, not great "Chough to realize
that selfish ambition and purely per
sonal glory can never bring lasting
success.
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