The abdication of Napoleon and his departure from Fontainebleau for Elba mayhem The meeting had been held

The meeting had been held the previous week and had then been taken over by rioters and extremists

View of building at the entrance of Little St Helen's

Lord John Russell

and to explain how mariner's compasses work

The abdication of Napoleon and his departure from Fontainebleau for Elba mayhem The meeting had been heldThe abdication of Napoleon and his departure from Fontainebleau for Elba, 20th April 1814. The defeat at the Battle of Leipzig and the subsequent invasion of France by the Allies culminated in Napoleon's abdication on 11 April. By the Treaty of Fontainebleau he was exiled and granted sovereignty of the island of Elba.