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The Hundred Days counts the approximate number of days that Napoleon came back into power after having been exiled. The Treaty of Fontainebleau had given to him sovereignty over the island of Elba and his title of emperor, along with an annual pension of two million francs. He had retired there on the 20 of April 1814, after his well-awaited abdication. Louis XVIII was put into power right away, although the monarchy had been abolished. The fact …

…test military commander of the modern era. He overcame great odds in every battle to satisfy his desire for power. To his enemies he was power-hungry tyrant often associated with the devil whose lust for conquest far outweighed his good will toward his people. Either way, history writes this man as one of the greatest military minds ever whose conquest and code influenced revolutions and legal systems, which would change the face of the earth.