Video: 'Napoleon Bonaparte Biography'
(Monday, April 11, 1814) — The Treaty of Fontainebleau established today ended the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forced him to abdicate unconditionally as Emperor of the French for the first time and banished to the island of Elba. Napoleon later escaped from Elba and returned to power in March 1815, until his downfall in the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815.
Video: 'Beethoven - Symphony No 8 in F major, Op 93 - Thielemann'
(Sunday, February 27, 1814) — Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93, was first performed today at the Redoutensaal in Vienna.
Video: 'The Forgotten War of 1812.' (Dec. 30, 1813 at 1:08:25)
(Thursday, December 30, 1813, during the Battle of Buffalo,
part the War of 1812) — British forces engaged in considerable plundering and destruction today in Buffalo, New York, in retaliation for the burning by American troops of the Canadian village of Newark (present day Niagara-on-the-Lake).
