Fill in the Blanks NAPOLEON EXILEOnline version Napoleon's defeat and exile. by Alfonso Poza 1 escape penis cancer poisoned empress autopsy Battle heart arsenic retake Elba prisoner Helena The of Waterloo was the culmination of the famous Hundred Days , the period from the time of Napoleon's from exile in and his return to reclaim his throne of France . Now defeated , Napoleon had a limited number of options : fleeing to America , where his brother Joseph had fled or surrendering to the British , imagining himself to live out his days as a respected guest of his former enemy . He was confined to a ship off the coast of Portsmouth , and transported as a to the island of St . . There Napoleon spent the next five years of his life . He was 47 years old when he went into exile . While in Saint Helena some feared Napoleon might escape exile again and France . Some historians suggest that Napoleon was slowly with arsenic , perhaps in his wine or food . Studies of Napoleon's hair have revealed high levels of . Anyways , Napoleon died as a result of stomach . Napoleon Bonaparte died on May 5 , 1821 . The following day an was conducted by the emperor's doctor , Francesco Antommarchi in the company of 17 witnesses and a priest . Antommarchi removed Napoleon's ( which will be given to the Marie - Louise , though it was never delivered ) and stomach and his .