t Rochefort, intending to
embark for America.

July 3. Louis XVIII. re-enters Paris.

July 15. Napoleon surrenders to Captain Maitland,
of the _Bellerophon_, at Rochefort.

Aug. 8. Is transferred at Torbay to the _Northumberland_,
and, with Admiral Sir George Cockburn,
sails for St. Helena.

Oct. 15. Arrives at St. Helena, to remain for life.

Dec. 7. Execution of Marshal Ney.

1816. Jan. 12. Family of Bonaparte excluded _for ever_
from France by the Law of Amnesty.

1821. May 5. Death of Napoleon.

1836. Oct. 29. Attempted insurrection by Louis Napoleon
(afterwards Emperor).

1837. May 8. Amnesty proclaimed for political offences.

1838. "Idees Napoleoniennes" published by
Prince Louis Napoleon.

1840. May 12. The Chambers decree the removal of
Napoleon's remains from St. Helena.

Oct. 15. Exhumation of Napoleon's remains.

Nov. 30. Arrival of _Belle Poule_ frigate at Cherbourg
with remains on board.

1840. Dec. 15. Remains deposited in the Hotel des Invalides.[33]

Aug. 6. Descent of Louis Napoleon, General Montholon,
and fifty followers at Vimeraux, near Boulogne.

Oct. 6. The Prince captured and sentenced to
imprisonment for life.

1841. Aug. 15. Bronze statue of Napoleon placed on the
column of the Grande Armee, Boulogne.

1846. May 25. Louis Napoleon escapes from Ham.

1847. Oct. 10. Jerome Bonaparte returns to France, after
an exile of thirty-two years.

1848. June 13. Election of Louis Napoleon to the National
Assembly.

Sept. 26. Louis Napoleon takes his seat in the
National Assembly.

1857. Longwood, the residence of Napoleon
Bonaparte at St. Helena, bought for
180,000 francs.

1860. June 24. Jerome Bonaparte (the Emperor's uncle)
dies, aged 76.

1861. Mar. 31. Napoleon's body finally placed in the crypt
of the Hotel des Invalides.

FOOTNOTES:

[33] The ceremony was witnessed by about 1,000,000 persons and 150,000
soldiers assisted at the obsequies. No relatives of the Emperor were
present, as at this time the various members