Portoferraio
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Portoferraio is a town and comune on the edge of the eponymous harbour of the island of Elba, in the province of Livorno in the region of Tuscany in Italy. It is the island's largest municipality. Bec
Aerial view of Portoferraio
View of the Medici fortifications.
Napoleon in Portoferraio, Leo von Klenze, 1839.
The surrounding wall and the bricked-up door of the Jewish cemetery on Via de Gasperi 1.
Napoleon
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Napoleon Bonaparte, later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was Emperor of the French from 18 May 1804 until his first abdication in 1814, with a brief restoration during the Hundred Days in 1815.
Portoferraio
…garrison withstood the Siege of Porto Ferrajo in 1801, but the 1802 Treaty of Amiens transferred the town to France. In 1814 it was handed over to Napoleon Bonaparte, as the seat of his first exile. In the 19th century, the city grew quickly, due to the construction of infrastructures and the exploitation of new…
Napoleon's father, Carlo Buonaparte, fought for Corsican independence under Pasquale Paoli. After their defeat, he eventually became the island's representative to Louis XVI's court.
Bonaparte, aged 23, as lieutenant-colonel of a battalion of Corsican Republican volunteers. Portrait made in 1835 by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux.
Bonaparte at the Siege of Toulon, 1793, by Édouard Detaille