The last years of Napoleon Bonaparte have been exceptional, in which he faced an insulting negation, mysterious death at the age of 51, and a series of strange events after death.
After Napoleon’s defeat in the battle of Waterloo in 1815, he abdicated his throne and surrendered to the British, instead of executing him and turning him into a martyr, and the British put him in exile in one of the most isolated places on the face It was mentioned by the site.
Saint Helena Island, from the small islands with an area of about 10 to 5 miles, its slopes rough appear to be bleak when the former emperor put its eyes on it for the first time, Napoleon was then transferred to the near Longwood House, a drug that fell in a bad condition, was humid and full of mold In particular.
It also seems that the island was infested in mice, a feature that the satirists seized from all over Europe as an opportunity to ridicule the former defeated emperor.
A German political cartoon was mocked of his situation, as it was served by a battalion of rats instead of the footnote to the footnote. The former French -Emperor Caricature was sleeping in a tent while the rats on the beach were planning a rebellion campaign – and wrote on the cartoon “Even mice do not want it.
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The matter got worse when the new British ruler of the island, Hudson Loy, decided that Napoleon would not escape from this exile as he did from his first exile in Elba, who was his movement, and worked to monitor his correspondence, and ordered that Napoleon be seen in exile numbers a day.
This led to the ex -emperor in a strange form of rebellion, and carving small holes inside the house so that he could look abroad without seeing it.
He also designed a lane in the garden to make it difficult for the officers to discover, as he practiced some entertainment: fill his notes, wrote a book on Julius Caesar, and studied the English language.
Ultimately, the living conditions – especially his lack of exercise – began to deteriorate his health, he was suffering from abdominal pain, constipation, vomiting and general weakness.
By February 1821, about four years after his arrival in Saint Helena, Napoleon realized that his end was close. He reconciled with the Catholic Church after turbulent relations, on May 5, 1821, he died at the age of 51..
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