Hundred Days

The Hundred Days, is the period between Napoleon Bonaparte's return from exile on Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815 (a period of 111 days). This period is also known as the War of the Seventh Coalition, and includes the Waterloo Campaign and the Neapolitan War.

Hundred Days
Part of the Napoleonic Wars

The Battle of Waterloo, by William Sadler II
Date10 March to 8 July 1815
Location
France, present-day Belgium, present-day Italy
Result Coalition victory, Treaty of Paris, end of the Napoleonic Wars
Belligerents

Seventh Coalition

United Kingdom United Kingdom
Kingdom of PrussiaPrussia
Hanover
Other German states
 Austria
 Russia
 Sweden
Netherlands United Kingdom of the Netherlands
Spain Spain
Portugal Portugal
Sardinia Sardinia
Sicily
Tuscany Tuscany
France French Royalists		 France France
Naples

References
  • Baines, Edward, History of the Wars of the French Revolution, from the breaking out of the wars in 1792, to, the restoration of general peace in 1815, volume II (of II), Longman, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818


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