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14 unusual facts about Elba


423rd Guards Yampolsky Motor Rifle Regiment

Within three years of participation in the German-Soviet War, the brigade fought from the Don to Elba, from Voronezh to walls of Prague, putting the big damage to the opponent in inhabited force and the technician.

Battle of Leipzig

Napoleon was forced from the throne of France and exiled to the island of Elba, and the First French Empire capitulated for the first time.

Napoleon was forced to abdicate and was exiled to Elba in May 1814.

Claude Carra Saint-Cyr

He was named governor of Dresden and in 1813 governor of Hamburg and in this capacity evacuated the city with his troops and was defeated on the Elba.

David P. Calleo

Calleo owns an estate on the Italian island of Elba, where he spends his summers researching and hosting academics and other notables.

Elba

The island is connected to the mainland via the three ferry companies, Toremar, Moby Lines and Blunavy, all offering routes between Piombino and Portoferraio, the capital located in the north, Cavo, Rio Marina and Porto Azzurro, on the east coast of the island.

Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor

Upon the return of the emperor from Elba, Molitor joined him during the Hundred Days, for which he was stripped of his functions after Napoleon's defeat.

Giovanni Galzerani

He was born in Porto Azzurro on the Isle of Elba and began his education in Gaeta where his father was the military commandant at the time.

Guadeloupe Fund

After France had been defeated and Napoleon was exiled to Elba, the Treaty of Paris of 1814 settled the terms of the peace, in which Guadeloupe, having previously been a French possession, was returned to France.

Piyale Pasha

In 1554 he captured the islands of Elba and Corsica with a large fleet which included famous Ottoman admirals like Turgut Reis and Salih Reis.

Prince Frederick of the Netherlands

When Napoleon returned from Elba, during the Hundred Days the prince was given command of a detachment of Wellington's army which was posted in a fall back position near Braine should the battle taking place at Waterloo be lost.

Renato Cioni

Born on the Isle of Elba, the son of a fisherman, Cioni received his main musical education at the Cherubini Conservatory in Florence.

Ron Snidow

In 2008, Snidow was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, which he died from a year later on May 17, 2009, while on a vacation cruise off the coast of Italy on the island of Elba.

Rubidium

Two notable sources of rubidium are the rich deposits of pollucite at Bernic Lake, Manitoba, Canada, and the rubicline ((Rb,K)AlSi3O8) found as impurities in pollucite on the Italian island of Elba, with a rubidium content of 17.5%.


Alice Ripley

Ripley recently wrapped shooting on the feature film, Muckland, shot on location in the towns of Elba and Batavia in upstate New York.

Edward Hawkins

Tutor for a few months to Viscount Caulfeild, son of Francis Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont, he was in Paris at the time of Napoleon's escape from Elba in 1815, and left that city on the morning of the day on which Napoleon entered it, 20 March.

Elba Guerrero

Elba Guerrero is the former mayor of Huntington Park, California.

Elba Ramalho

In addition to her successful solo career, Elba has collaborated with a number of well-established Brazilian acts, including Alceu Valença and her first cousin Zé Ramalho.

Jean Baptiste Pierre Constant, Count of Suzannet

In 1815 many people in the Vendée did not accept the change of government that Napoleon Bonaparte's return to Paris from exile on the isle of Elba, and hostilities once again broke out in the region.

Lord Hornblower

When Napoleon escapes from Elba and raises a new army, Hornblower, the Comte and Marie lead a guerrilla fight against the Imperial forces.

Susan Downey

Downey later produced Neil Jordan's psychological drama The Brave One, starring Jodie Foster and Terrence Howard; Guy Ritchie's comedy RocknRolla, starring Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandie Newton, Idris Elba, Chris Bridges and Jeremy Piven; the horror thriller Orphan, starring Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard; and the thriller Whiteout, starring Kate Beckinsale.

The Duellists

Two years later, after Napoleon's exile to Elba, d'Hubert is a brigadier-general recovering from a leg wound at the home of his sister Leonie (Meg Wynn Owen) in Tours.