After having been confronted by his by his field marshals on the strategic weakness of his situation, Emperor Napoleon I, of France, abdicates.
Postscript: Soon thereafter Napoleon was exiled to Elba, an island between his home island of Corsica and the northwest coast of the Italian peninsula, where he will be emperor of its 12,000 inhabitants.
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References:
Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, four volumes. (London: Cassell, 1956-58), 3:339.
Treaty of Fontainebleau (1814) – Wikipedia
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