What led to Napoleon's abdication?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. In 1813, Austria and Prussia, subsidized by Great Britain, reformed their armies, instituted a draft, and reentered the war. In October, the Allies engaged the Napoleon in eastern Germany. Napoleon lost and began to retreat. As he drew back, the Germans finally rose up in an anti-French revolt, rallying behind their traditional rulers. Years of taxes, conscription, and the hardships of the Continental System, combined with French ideal of national citizenship had spread to the occupied peoples. Now they countered Napoleon with their own nationalist passions. Napoleon was defeated, and when he attempted to return to Paris, his overtaxed generals refused to fight for him and he was exiled (at the Allies behest) to Elba.
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