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In what year did Napoleon surrender for the final time?
Answer
1815
Napoleon's final surrender came after his catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815, where combined British and Prussian forces decisively defeated his remaining Grande Armée. After abdicating in 1814, Napoleon escaped from exile in Elba and mounted a brief comeback known as the Hundred Days, but the Waterloo defeat ended his military career forever. The Congress of Vienna subsequently reshaped Europe without Napoleon, ending nearly two decades of Napoleonic Wars.
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After Waterloo, Napoleon was exiled to remote Saint Helena Island in the Atlantic Ocean, where he died six years later in 1821.
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