Hunder Days
(Reguidit frae Hundred Days)
The Hunder Days,[2] sometimes kent as the Hunder Days o Napoleon or Napoleon's Hunder Days markit the period atween Emperor Napoleon o Fraunce's return frae exile on Elba tae Paris on 20 Mairch 1815 an the seicont restoration o King Louis XVIII on 8 Julie 1815 (a period o 111 days).[3]
War o the Sevent Coalition | |||||||
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Pairt o the Napoleonic Wars | |||||||
The Battle o Waterloo, bi William Sadler II | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Seivent Coalition: Prussia Austrian Empire Russian Empire Hanover Nassau Brunswick Sweden Netherlands Spain Portugal Sardinie Sicily Tuscany Switzerland French Kinrick |
French Empire Kingdom of Naples | ||||||
Commanders an leaders | |||||||
Duke o Wellington Gebhard von Blücher Frederick Bianchi |
Napoleon Marquis de Grouchy Louis-Nicolas Davout Joachim Murat | ||||||
Strenth | |||||||
800,000– 1,000,000[1] | 280,000[1] | ||||||
Casualties an losses | |||||||
50,825+ killed, woondit, or captured[citation needit] | 68,000+ killed, woondit, captured, or missin[citation needit] |
References
eedit- ↑ a b Chandler 1966, p. 1015.
- ↑ French: les Cent-Jours, IPA: [le sɑ̃ ʒuʁ]
- ↑ Histories differ ower the stairt an end dates o the Hundred Days; anither popular period is frae 1 March, when Napoleon I landit in Fraunce, tae his defeat at Waterloo on 18 Juin.