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January
13th Reports of a plan to remove Napoleon
to St Helena began to appear in a number
of British newspapers
February
26th Napoleon left Elba
March
1st Napoleon landed at Golfe-Juan
5th Royalist Infantry defected to Napoleon
6th News of Napoleon's flight reached Vienna
7th Infantry Regiment defected
13th Congress of Vienna declares Napoleon outlaw
Napoleon issued edict dissolving assembly
14th Marshall Ney defects to Napoleon
15th Joachim Murat, King of Naples declares
war on Austria.
19th Louis XVIII leaves Paris
20th Napoleon Arrives in Paris
25th Austria, Russia, Prussia, Britain each agreed
to supply 150,000 to fight against Napoleon
Britain unable to raise enough troops so
provides subsidy to allies.
29th Napoleon issues decree abolishing Slave Trade
April
7th Samuel Whitbread, Whig Leader
in House of Commons
said Wellington and other diplomats
who had signed treaty against Napoleon
at Vienna should be impeached.
14th Napoleon meets Benjamin Constant; work begins on constitution
22nd Acte additionnel published
May
2nd Louis XVIII, manifesto published in Ghent
calls on the people to chase out the usurper.
15th Royalist rebellion in the Vendee, West France.
18th Battle of Tolentino
Murat defeated by Austrians
21st Murat's wife, Caroline, Napoleon's sister
boarded a British war ship
and was taken to Trieste
25th Earl Grey's amendment against resumption
of war lost in House of Lords;
among those voting against the
war was Wellington's brother
Lord Wellesley.
June
11th Members of British Government tell
John Quincy Adams that they expect
Napoleon soon to seek refuge in America.
12th Napoleon leaves Paris to join the army
of the north
15th Beginning of campaign against British
and Prussian forces
16th Quatre Bras and Ligny
18th Waterloo
19th News of Waterloo reached London
20th News of defeat reached Paris
21st Napoleon arrived back in Paris
22nd Napoleon Abdicated
23rd Executive Commission set up to rule France
24th Napoleon "invited" to leave Paris by Fouche
- moves to Malmaison;
White terror begins in South of France
25th General Beker appointed Commanding Officer of
Napoleon's Guard at Malmaison;
Commission asks Wellington for safe conduct
for Napoleon to go to America
Louis XVIII returns to France
26th Fouche informed Napoleon that two frigates
in Rochefort were ready to take him
to America once safe conduct had been granted
27th Fouche sent message urging Napoleon
to leave Malmaison
28th Napoleon's doctor gave him small bottle of
poison in case he was captured by
advancing Prussian army
29th Napoleon left Malmaison - spent night at Rambouillet
30th Napoleon spent night at Tours
The memorial bears the following inscription:
Ici, le 8 juillet 1815, Napoléon 1er a quitté le continent pour l’exil. L’Empereur a été porté jusqu’à la baleinière par le marin Baud, natif de Fouras. Don du Baron Gourgaud, arrière-petit-fils du général Gourgaud (1)
July
1st Napoleon in Niort
Croker (First Secretary of Admiralty) in Paris
set down rules for any ship
that captured Napoleon
3rd Napoleon arrived at La Rochelle
Paris capitulates
5th Napoleon joined by brother
Joseph at La Rochelle
6th Samuel Whitbread, Whig Leader and opponent
of war, commits suicide.
7th Government set up under Talleyrand and Fouche
Lord Liverpool writes to Castlereagh that if
they capture Napoleon the easiest course
would be to hand him over to France;
8th Napoleon boarded Saale from Fouras beach
2nd Restoration of Louis XVIII
gives orders to arrest Napoleon
9th Fouche (Duc D'Oranto) appointed Minister of Police by Louis XVIII
10th Napoleon ent Savary and las Cases to
Bellerophon to negotiate with English
12th Napoleon moved to Ile d'Aix
14th Las Cases and Lallemand informed captain of
Bellerophon that Napoleon would come on board
the next morning
Napoleon writes letter to Prince Regent
15th Napoleon went on board Bellerophon
Lord Liverpool writes to Castlereagh
that if they capture Napoleon St. Helena
or Cape of Good Hope
would be the best places to secure him.
18th Metternich wrote to Marie Louise saying
it had been agreed that Napoleon would be
imprisoned at Fort St. George in Scotland.
21st Letter From Lord Liverpool to Castlereagh
in Paris proposing Napoleon should be
sent to St. Helena
24th Hudson Lowe chosen to be Governor of St. Helena
25th Bellerophon arrived in Torbay
26th Bellerophon leaves Torbay for Plymouth
29th Gazette confirmed Napoleon
would be sent to St. Helena
30th Napoleon officially informed by Lord Keith
that he was to be sent to St Helena.
August
4th Anthony Mackenrot attempted to serve Lord
Keith with a subpoena requesting
Napoleon to appear as a witness in court
Bellerophon leaves Plymouth for open sea
7th Napoleon transferred to Northumberland
October
13th Murat executed after failing to
recapture Kingdom of Naples
15th Northumberland arrives at St. Helena
17th Napoleon goes ashore
lodges for night in Jamestown
18th Napoleon visits Longwood and moves to Briars
December
10th Napoleon moves to Longwood
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(1) The tide was out, and Napoleon was carried out to his boat on the back of a local sailor.
2 comments:
Thank you. I have written a lot about Napoleon yet I still find the most amazing period to be July 1815. The flurry of activity from La Rochelle and the Bellerophon to Torbay and St Helena seems to be little known.
Great link, thanks
Hels
http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/did-napoleon-step-on-british-soil-or.html
Hi Hels
I am scheduled to give a talk on this in about a month, so am trying to get my thoughts together.
I have had a quick look at your post. I think you rather exaggerate the fear of invasion by the Government, particularly after Trafalgar! That to me was not what the Napoleonic/Revolutionary wars were about. Each of the allies had different aims of course, and Russia and Austria at times sided with Napoleon, but for the British Government, without whose money there would have been no coalitions, it was fundamentally about the Scheldt//Antwerp, which was the original casus belli, before Napoleon came on the scene. There was of course an ideological element as well - a fear of revolution, at a time when England had become the hanging capital of the world, and people were deported to Australia for offences which to us seem somewhat minor.
cheers
John
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