Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

Salute!

Short but fun...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quSj3wDW-ag

Regards,

I guess the 110 Days Plus or Minus doesn't roll off the tongue quite as easily.

As a literary device, it is a clever way to describe the overall period of return of Napoleon through the 2nd restoration of Louis XVIII without the necessity of ascribing specific dates.

That being said, if I were to assign a start, I'd probably go with the 13th of March, as until then, his re-ascension was very much in doubt. Using the same logic on the other side, I would use the date of the abdication on the 22nd. Between those dates, he was once again l'Empereur.

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Marechal Jeff Bardon
Duc de Castiglione et Prince de Wagram
Commandant de la Garde Imperiale

Roy,
That is way too much math for my brain on a Sunday morning! I read Adkins book on 1814 when I was playtesting that game and I liked it (seemed like maybe it was his dissertation) and the library has his Gettysburg book. And I think he lives in the suburb next to mine. Which makes me awesome...


Bu seriously, I wonder where the idea of defining this as the "100 Days" came from? Was it something labeled right after the fact by participants (not necessarily French), or by a historian a few decades later?

Hi Jim,
I think it definitely a historian along the way somewhere but the handle has stuck all this - so I was trying to come up with how they considered the period to be - but as you see lots of open assumptions can be applied