Hundred Days
- February 26, 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte boarded a ship for his voyage from Elba back to France
- March 1, 1815: Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte lands at Golfe-Juan, between Cannes and Antibes
- March 7, 1815: Napoleon met the 5th Regiment of the Line close to Grenoble. Napoleon used exaggerations, lies and his charisma to brainwash the soldiers. The Regiment, with the cry: "Vive L'Empéreur" changed sides as one man.
- March 8, 1815: The 7th Regiment of the Line and its commanders, Colonel Charles Huchet and Count de la Bédoyère changed sides as well
- Napoleon, being the opportunist that he was, promised everybody exactly what they wanted to have. Peasants he assured that they would not lose their lands to the émigrés, city people he seduced with promises of fiscal reforms. Everywhere he went he promised peace and prosperity.
- The Bourbons issued a warrant for his arrest. They sent increasing numbers of troops to intercept him. Marshal Ney promised Louis XVIII he would bring Napoleon to Paris "in an iron cage"
- March 18, 1815: When Ney met his former master eye to eye, the attraction proved to be too great and he too defected with the 6000 men in his command
- March 19, 1815: Pressured by Napoleon's unstoppable march to Paris and the growing anti-royalist mood in Paris Louis XVIII ran in the middle of the night to Gent, Belgium. Here he started a voluntary exile that would last for more than a hundred day's
- June 14, 1815: The concentration of the Armee du Nord was as good as finished when Napoleon arrived at his forward HQ at Beaumont. This concentration was a very fine military achievement and the French General Staff had every right to be proud of itself.
- June 15, 1815: At 0300, the Armée du Nord would advanced in three columns. On the left flank General Reille's II Corps would start to advance in the direction of Thuin and Marchienne-au-pont. D'Erlon's I Corps would be right behind it. D'Erlon had orders to leave a cavalry brigade behind to observe the city of Mons and a division to guard the bridges at Thuin when they got there.
- Reille's II Corps destroyed a Prussian battalion at Thuin. However bad roads and the fierce resistance of a Prussian brigade at Marchienne-au-Pont delayed its further advance.
- Gosselies felt into French hands at about 1600 when the Prussian garrison retreated to Fleurus
- Luckily for the French none of the Allied commanders had even thought of blowing up or heavily defending the bridges over the river Sambrev
- The initial French attack on Ligny began between 1430 and 1500 on 16 June
- General Gérard attacked Ligny with two divisions of his Corps
- By 1700, Vandamme managed to capture and hold St-Amands
- Prussians casualties were 16,000 killed and wounded, 600 captured, and 21 cannon. In addition, some 9,000 to 12,000 soldiers deserted in the next days.
- French casualties were 11,500 killed and wounded
- The battles of Waterloo and Wavre were also a part of the Hundred Day Campaign
- Napoleon's final fate was exile to St. Helena