Upon Napoleon's return to Paris in 1815 and the escape of King Louis XVIII, he actually hoped that the Allies would acquiesce in his resumption of power in France. He did not realize that a week earlier, the Allies planned to join forces and go to war against France and their new leader, Napoleon.
Most reliable sources have Napoleon with about 200,000 troops when he returned to Paris in 1815.
Napoleon had found about 200,000 men under arms when he returned to Paris in 1815. The abolition of conscription laws prevented Napoleon from raising a much larger army. It would have been unpopular for him to institute new draft laws in 1815.
When Napoleon returned to Paris in 1815, after his exile in Elba, he believed he had two main choices regarding the allied armies that would form against him. Because of the numerical advantages of the allies, Napoleon could chose a "Fabian" approach of delay and defense. This could result in a strategy of delay and defense. Perhaps the allies would tire of a protracted struggle and sue for peace. His other choice could be an offensive against the allies before they could form a concentration that would be too strong for the French to defeat.
Napoleon Bonaparte lost at the Waterloo in Belgium in 1815.
Alexander I (1777-1825) ruled Russia from 1801 to 1825. Napoléon Bonaparte (1769-1821) was emperor from 1804 to 1814, and again in 1815. He abdicated in 1814, returned to power in 1815, and was then defeated at Waterloo.
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Napoleon is the name of the French Emperor between 1804 and 1815.
George Napoleon Epps was born in 1815.
Napoleon fell at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, 1815.