The world: historical and actual . The Bourbon who had been placed upon the throne,Louis XVIII., was powerless. Popular enthusiasmknew no bounds. Everybody seemed to be in ecstasies of delight overthe return of the heroof Austerlitz. The sol-diers and people vied inenthusiasm. The kingwas glad to escape withhis life, and Napoleonwas Emperor once war was allies were not con-tent to allow the restor-ation of the in June a com-bined English and Prus-sian army was quarter-ed at some distance fromeach other in the neigh-borhood of Brussels un-der Wellington and BlU
The world: historical and actual . The Bourbon who had been placed upon the throne,Louis XVIII., was powerless. Popular enthusiasmknew no bounds. Everybody seemed to be in ecstasies of delight overthe return of the heroof Austerlitz. The sol-diers and people vied inenthusiasm. The kingwas glad to escape withhis life, and Napoleonwas Emperor once war was allies were not con-tent to allow the restor-ation of the in June a com-bined English and Prus-sian army was quarter-ed at some distance fromeach other in the neigh-borhood of Brussels un-der Wellington and BlU-cher. Napoleon raisedan army of 150,000 men to resist them. On thelsth (if June, 1815, was fought the battle of Water-loo. Wellington was al-most beaten, but Bluchercame to his succor justin time to turn the defeat of the Frenchwas utter. On the twen-tieth instant Napoleonre-entered Paris, a van-quished fugitive. Hisplan was to find asylumin America, but he wasavrested by the alliesand sent to the lonelyisland of St. He
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