After Napoleon suffered a tragic defeat in the Battle of Waterloo, he returned to Paris in a hurry to announce his abdication. The subsequent result was that Napoleon was exiled to St. Helena in the South Atlantic. Why was Napoleon exiled to St. Helena? The factors are simple.
However, let’s be clear. Napoleon was exiled in October of that year after the defeat of the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. This was the second exile in Napoleon’s life, and it was not until the first exile (that is, 1814). May 2015) time is only 17 months. More importantly, the second time was the re-exile after the failure of the revival plan, but the second exile was so far away that many people believed that the anti-French alliance treated Napoleon too kindly. This also gave rise to two questions. One is that the Anti-French Alliance knew that Napoleon’s ambitions were still alive, but did not execute him but exile him? The second is why Napoleon was exiled to St. Helena, a distant island from Europe?
After the defeat of the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon’s environment became very bad. Whether it was France or other parts of Europe, many people regarded him as a catastrophe and brought it to Europe. Many disasters. At this time, many European countries do not want to exile Napoleon to an island on the sea as kindly as in 1814, but put him to death. Representatives among them include Blücher of Prussia and Russian Tsar Alexander I. There are even many people in France who hope to execute Napoleon. As for the consequences of the execution of Napoleon, they have ignored them.
Because Napoleon rebuilt the French First Empire in March 1815 (also known as the Hundred Days) to June 1815 when Napoleon defeated Waterloo. In just three months, the number of people lost in Europe was more than Thousands of dollars, the loss of the economy is calculated in tens of millions of pounds. If you add in the series of losses caused by the many wars launched by Napoleon in Europe from May 1803 to March 1814, it is an astronomical figure. The countries that hated Napoleon at this time were Austria, Prussia, Tsarist Russia, Spain, Portugal, etc. Even in France, the number of people resenting Napoleon began to increase (this is mainly the French bourgeoisie), and some people blame Napoleon for all the disasters since 1789.
In this case, Napoleon’s final ending was not executed but was exiled to St. Helena. There is no other reason. The biggest promoter of this is the British.
Although Britain and France have had a grievance and feud for hundreds of years, and the continental blockade system created by Napoleon made the British economy severely hit in 1811, it was influenced by Napoleon’s personal charm, and Napoleon owned it in the United Kingdom. Many die-hard fans, many of them are members of Congress. When Napoleon was sent to England by boat as a captive, almost all the British people took off his hats to pay tribute to him after he disembarked. There is no shortage of British people who have a good impression of Napoleon, the Duke of Wellington we know well. After Napoleon's defeat in June 1815, Wellington believed that Napoleon should not be executed when dealing with Napoleon's issues. It was Wellington who fought fiercely with Napoleon's armies in the Iberian Peninsula and Waterloo. Wellington’s favor with Napoleon is not limited to the many brilliances created by Napoleon, but also lies in the fact that the Earl of Uxbridge (also the enemy of Wellington), who fought side by side with Wellington in the Battle of Waterloo, was killed by France. A human shell hit the leg, causing the Earl of Uxbridge to lose one of his legs forever. The injury of the Earl of Uxbridge and the victory of the Battle of Waterloo were two birds with one stone for Wellington.
Then why did the injury of the Earl of Uxbridge become the reason Wellington increased his favor with Napoleon and even became a reason why Napoleon was not executed? Because the Earl of Uxbridge once gave Wellington's brother a green hat because of a scandal, and caused quite a stir at the time. The actions of the Earl of Uxbridge also gave Wellington half a green hat at the time, which made Wellington lose face for a while, which made Wellington hate the Earl of Uxbridge. . In the Battle of Waterloo, Britain arranged for the Earl of Uxbridge as Welling.Dunn’s deputy, the two fighting side by side made Wellington anguish. When a French shell hit the Earl of Uxbridge in the leg during the battle, Wellington saw the painful look of Earl Uxbridge. This is for Wellington. It was Napoleon who gave himself a sigh of foul. Of course, Earl Uxbridge was also his deputy no matter what he said. Wellington still had to show sympathy after seeing Earl Uxbridge injured.
Furthermore, the victory of the Napoleonic Wars also allowed Britain to complete its ambition and hegemony-formally establish a sunless empire and become more brilliant in the next hundred years, while the European continent once again restored its balance of power. All these make Britain very satisfied. Regarding how to deal with Napoleon, the British can naturally be more generous. It is self-evident that the British relied on their leading power status and their active performance in the anti-French alliance during the Napoleonic Wars. So Napoleon was not executed, and the British played a huge role in it. By the way, Austria finally gave up the decision to execute Napoleon in consideration of the many undesirable consequences caused by the execution of Napoleon.
Of course, the two sides still argued for a long time on the matter of making European countries give up the execution of Napoleon. In order to prevent Napoleon from returning to France by boat to reopen his ambitions, the anti-French alliance finally agreed to exile Napoleon to St. Helena, a very far away from Europe, in the autumn of 1815. This is not the end, Britain also sent people to monitor Napoleon's every move, which completely cut off Napoleon's ambition to come back.
