Napoleon III in Chislehurst Written by Pam Preedy. The name, “Napoleon!” was enough to strike terror in teh hearts of children and adults alike in Britain in the nineteenth century. After a disastrous French invasion of Russia in 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to the island of Elba. He returned to power in his Hundred Days campaign. Defeated at Waterloo (1815), he abdicated and was exiled to the remote island of Saint Helena where he died aged 51. While in power he liked to raise members of his family to…