Western Civilization II / Unit 8 WC2 0719 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Leipzig, Abdication, and Elba, 1813 to 1814
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The idea
Austria, Prussia, Britain and Russia re-formed the coalition; the witness names Leipzig in eighteen thirteen, after which the Confederation of the Rhine collapsed and the allies marched on Paris. He abdicated in April eighteen fourteen, survived his own poison, and was sent to Elba.
In practice
Elba, the anchor says, to deny him martyrdom.
Where people slip
Two years from Moscow to abdication.
Your place on the trail
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