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The exiled Napoleon was sent to rule the little island of Elba. How did his new subjects take to having the conqueror of Europe as their sovereign for 10 months? How did Napoleon rule in these constrained circumstances? Did he shake up the sleepy island with grand designs?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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