Napoleon's ashes
in Invalides (Paris)

 

3 July 1815	Napoleon gets to Rochefort-sur-Mer, hoping to get on a ship to America. He is blocked by the British fleet and, fearing they will hand him over to the royalists, Napoleon requests the English to give him hospitality.
15 July	He leaves the Isle of Aix on board the Bellerophon. Betrayed by the English, he is deported to Sainte-Hélène (off the African coast) on board the Northumberland. With him are Generals Gourgaud, Bertrand, Montholon, the Count de las Cases, and the English doctor O'Meara.
18 June 1821	After six years of near-imprisonment, Napoleon dies of a stomach ulcer.
1840	His ashes are repatriated to France and deposited at the Invalides. Napoleon: "I wish my ashes to rest in the midst of this French nation I have loved so much."