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What happened to napoleons power

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After seizing political power in France in a 1799 coup d'état, he crowned himself emperor in 1804. ... However, after a disastrous French invasion of Russia in 1812, Napoleon abdicated the throne two years later and was exiled to the island of Elba.

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