Louis-Napoleon, the Emperor Napoleon III, surrendered his sword to the king of Prussia, after the Battle of Sedan, became a prisoner of war and was held with his aids in comfortable captivity in the Castle of Wilhelmshoehe near Kassel, from Sept. 5, 1870 through March 19,1871.
After his removal from power, decided by the French National Assembly on March 1, 1871 and the start of preliminary of peace, which took place on 3rd September, he was released by Bismarck, who saw no reason to farther prolong his confinement and went in voluntary exile to England with his wife Eugenie de Montijo, where he died on January 9, 1873.
The British had a sense of fair play and decency that is sometimes difficult for most mortals to comprehend. It simply wouldn't have been cricket.
Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan (1628-1658) built the Lal Qila (Red Fort) at Delhi in 1648. It was the official residence of the Mughals until 1857, when the British exiled the last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar to Rangoon in Burma.
False, the English led by the Duke Of Wellington imprisoned Napoleon shortly after the Waterloo, then he was exiled to Saint Helena where he remained till he died of stomach cancer on May 5th 1821 at age 51.
He was exiled to St. Helena which was quite different from doing hard time in a prison. Because he had broken his parole at Elba he was considered a flight risk and he was provided less freedom of movement then he had been granted on Elba. He still had his retinue and servants and free run at the Estate of Longwood House.
Nepoleon Bonaparte a/k/a Nepoleon I of France, was first exiled to the Island of Elba, a more or less pre Roman iron mine, with sparse settlement; then to the Island of St. Helena, where he died in 1821.
The Prussian army defeated his forces
Switzerland exiled Giuseppe Mazzini to Paris in 1834 and then France exiled him to England in 1837.
Napoleon was imprisoned and then exiled to the island of Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean, 2,000 km from any major landmass. The poisoning stories only emerged well after his death. His (French) physician did and autopsy when he died and documented that he had died of stomach cancer.
He had offended a French nobleman- and was imprisoned in the Bastille without trial or opportunity to defend himself. Fearing an indefinite length of term, he suggested exile to England and the French authorities accepted.
The year 1857 marks the date of the last Mughal emperor being exiled to Burma by the English.
Charles I was exiled in Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight in England after his defeat in the English Civil War.
C. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire was imprisoned twice and later exiled from Paris due to his controversial writings and criticism of the government and Catholic Church.
Bahadur Shah II, also known as Bahadur Shah Zafar (1837-1857), the last Mughal Emperor of India, participated in the 1857 war of independence and was exiled to Rangoon in Burma in 1858.
Stalin killed, imprisoned, or exiled anyone who even thought of replacing him or who stood in his way.
Depending on the crime and the person involved, some were shot; some imprisoned; some exiled within the country and some exiled out of the country. Many suffered all four types of sentences.
Napoleon was exiled to St. Helena Island in the South Atlantic.
Edward the Confessor was exiled when Swein Forkbeard and his son, Cnut, invaded England, Edward and his family fled to Normandy.