Larned's history of the world : or, seventy centuries of the life of mankind . n monarchy, which had been restored bythe allies, fell at his approach. The king, LouisXVIII., fled. Napoleon recovered his throne andoccupied it for a few weeks; but the allies whohad expelled him from it refused to permit hisrecovery of power. The question was settledfinally at Waterloo, on the 18th of June, when aBritish army under Wellington and a Prussianarmy under BLucher won a victory which left thebeaten emperor without hope. He surrenderedhimself to the commander of a British vessel ofwar, and was sent to c
Larned's history of the world : or, seventy centuries of the life of mankind . n monarchy, which had been restored bythe allies, fell at his approach. The king, LouisXVIII., fled. Napoleon recovered his throne andoccupied it for a few weeks; but the allies whohad expelled him from it refused to permit hisrecovery of power. The question was settledfinally at Waterloo, on the 18th of June, when aBritish army under Wellington and a Prussianarmy under BLucher won a victory which left thebeaten emperor without hope. He surrenderedhimself to the commander of a British vessel ofwar, and was sent to confinement for the remain-der of his life on the remote island of St. Helena. A troubledperiod The United States of America during the Napoleonic wars The fifteen years of the Napoleonic wars werea troubled period for the American people,—atime of many excitements, of many humiliations,of sore trial to their undeveloped national spirit,and of grave harm. So prolonged a state of wide-spread war, involving half of Europe and everyEuropean colony, opened extraordinary oppor-. A Troubled Period in American History 1119 tunities for neutral trade, which the Americans American 1 • tm 1 activity in were well prepared to improve. They entered the neutralfield with eager enterprise and made it almost tradetheir own. Their ships swarmed in every sea andtheir flag became familiar in every port. Englandsaw reason to fear that the carrying trade of theocean would pass into their hands, and began asharp narrowing of neutral rights, by dictatorialrulings which her naval supremacy gave herpower to enforce. Then came Napoleonsattempt to exclude British products from Euro-pean marts, and the finally frantic endeavor ofboth belligerents, abusing land-power on one sideand sea-power on the other, to destroy all neutraltrade. Struck unsparingly by both, the Ameri-cans suffered heavy losses; and yet large profitsremained to them in the commerce which neither The attackcruisers nor coast guards co
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