. Letters from Europe to the children; Uncle John upon his travels. LETTER TWELFTH. HOW THE GENERAL CAME Dear Boys and Girls: HE Emperor Napoleon, after he hadbeen defeated at Waterloo, in thatterrible battle where the English Dukeof Wellington commanded on oneside and he upon the other, surrendered himselfto the British, and by them was carried as aprisoner to the island of St. Helena, in theAtlantic ocean. Here he arrived on the 15 thof October, 1815. Five years after he died,having remained a prisoner during all that time;not shut up in a gloomy building, it is true, asprisoners gene
. Letters from Europe to the children; Uncle John upon his travels. LETTER TWELFTH. HOW THE GENERAL CAME Dear Boys and Girls: HE Emperor Napoleon, after he hadbeen defeated at Waterloo, in thatterrible battle where the English Dukeof Wellington commanded on oneside and he upon the other, surrendered himselfto the British, and by them was carried as aprisoner to the island of St. Helena, in theAtlantic ocean. Here he arrived on the 15 thof October, 1815. Five years after he died,having remained a prisoner during all that time;not shut up in a gloomy building, it is true, asprisoners generally are, but still not allowed toleave the island. He was discontented and un-happy; not so great a man in suffering as he HOW THE GENERAL CAME HOME. 133 was in acting. Indeed, it is in suffering thatit is always hardest of all for men to be verygreat. Jesus was so, was he not? After Napoleon had remained buried in twenty years, the French nation remem-bered what he had written in his will — that hewished to lie upon the banks of the Seine, inthe midst of the people whom he loved. Sothey bega
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