For educational purposes<br /><br />This is the final chapter of Napoleon Bonaparte's extraordinary life. A chapter that begins with his enforced exile on the island of Elba. <br /><br />He busied himself building forts and bridges, winning the support of the local population and making plans for a return to France. <br /><br />When he did return, it was to an ecstatic welcome from his former troops and it was not long before he was reinstated as Emperor and at war once again. <br /><br />But there was to be no glorious ending to the tale. Instead it ended in spectacular and bloody failure in June 1815 on the famous battlefield of Waterloo. <br /><br />Napoleon's old enemy the Duke of Wellington once again beat his forces and this time there was no way back. Napoleon died in exile on St. <br /><br />Helena just six years later, but the legend of his military genius had only just begun.
