During the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon Bonaparte was referred to by the English as “The Monster” and “The Ogre.”
At best, he would install his family members as the new rulers of whatever nations he conquered, and at worst, he was exporting the ideals of the French Revolution to former monarchical states. Yet, at the end of the War of the Sixth Coalition, he was allowed to bring one thousand soldiers with him during his exile to Elba. Then, after the Hundred Days, they exiled him again.
If Napoleon was so dangerous, why didn’t the leaders of Europe simply kill him?
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