Hundred Days (mar 20, 1815 – jul 8, 1815)

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Hundred Days of Napoleon or War of the 7th Coalition.

- Napoleon escapes from Elba and reaches France.
- Greeted with support of the army and the nation, he's carried into Paris by the crowd. Louis XVIII flees.
- Napoleon introduces more liberal reforms and seeks recognition as a French ruler, wanting to put an end to the wars.
- In response a 7th Coalition is formed.
- Napoleon attacks British troops, trying to prevent foreign armies from joining forces.
- Battle of Waterloo (1815): Napoleon's final defeat
- Bonaparte abdicates, leaving the throne to his son.
- Peace in Paris (1815) - French territories go back to the state from 1790.
- Napoleon exiled to Saint Helena

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