Napoleon abdicated today, the 11th April, 1814. He had been ruler of 70 million people, 30 million of them French, the rest Spanish, Belgian, Dutch, some Italian and German. He had also ruled parts of Poland and Yugoslavia. Then he attacked Russia. After the disaster that was Russia he was outnumbered two to one by a coalition of Austrian, Prussian, Russians and Swedes at the battle of Leipzig, losing this battle. This too had come after the loss of Spain to Wellington(June 1813).
On the 31st March 1814 the Allies entered Paris. His Generals persuaded him to abdicate in favour of his 3 year old son. His 10 year Empire had come to a close.
He tried to poison himself on the 12th, but ended up vomiting and not dying. On the 29th he was on his way to exile on Elba.
He would return.
What time zone is this site on?
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I’m sitting here in the central time zone at 8:01pm and I’m seeing post from July 3??? from TG who lives in LA?
Is this strange or am I dumb?
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It’s called GMT, and is the “zero” for all time zones.
Basic knowledge!
and when you post something you might see in the lower right corner below the light blue box the remark “all times are GMT”. -
Well, I like to post late at night, but what’s GMT?
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Greenwich Mean Time,
also known as Zulu time.
It’s the Prime Meridian (i believe).
Basically the guy who started time zones (a Canadian, believe it or not) had based the time zones on the time in Greenwich England. I believe all pilots fly on “Zulu time” to keep things simple (because my love-interest lives in Portugal, I am constantly aware of the time there - 6 hours ahead of CST). -
Okay, thanks for the clear up :D
Case Closed! -
ok, thanks
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