Talk:Hundred Days

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On 14 August 2022, it was proposed that this article be moved to War of the Seventh Coalition. The result of the discussion was not moved.

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"Inconstant" carried 1,000 men?

Under the heading "Return to France", the second sentence states "On 26 February 1815, when the British and French guard ships were absent, he slipped away from Portoferraio on board the French brig Inconstant with some 1,000 men and landed at Golfe-Juan..." (emphasis added). This is confusingly written, as it suggests that there were "some 1,000 men" aboard the "Inconstant" with Napoleon; an impossibility. That ship was a mere 96 feet long, and normally carried no more than 160 men. There would be no space aboard such a small ship to fit 1,000 men, and their weight would have sunk her! Perhaps the bulk of the men were borne by other craft that accompanied the "Inconstant". Can someone more knowledgeable about this particular incident rewrite this to clarify? Bricology (talk) 20:52, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've added some details of Napoleon's fleet. Tevildo (talk) 06:43, 14 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Kingdom of France" versus "France"

I'm not exactly clear on why the troops of the deposed Napoleon escaping from Elba count in the belligerents list as representing "France" while the actual government of France after Napoleon was deposed is relegated to being the "Kingdom of France". Shouldn't the belligerents on Napoleon's side be identified as "Bonapartists" at this point rather than as if they were "France"? Zachary Klaas (talk) 14:58, 18 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 14 August 2022

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) – robertsky (talk) 04:12, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hundred Days → War of the Seventh Coalition – Consistency with the wars of the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Coalitions, per WP:CRITERIA. Spekkios (talk) 03:14, 14 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. "Hundred Days" is by far the common name. Walrasiad (talk) 13:31, 14 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose: Hundred Days gets far more hits. YorkshireExpat (talk) 15:43, 14 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: On the matter of consistency, the current procedure of simply qualifying this when appropriate as the "War of the Seventh Coalition, also known as the Hundred Days (March – July 1815)" like is the case of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars page should be sufficient for that regard. "Hundred Days" is a clear case of WP:COMMONNAME within historiography to maintain it as the title. Sleath56 (talk) 20:21, 16 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per WP:COMMONNAME. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:13, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Belligerents

While writing the List of battles of the Hundred Days, I noticed that many alleged belligerents in the infobox of this article aren't mentioned anywhere else as participating in combat, e.g. Sweden, Baden, Liechtenstein, Saxony. Looks like Russian, Danish, Portuguese, Spanish etc. troops never saw combat action, but were only kept in reserve, and had some occupation duties after other forces cleared Napoleonic forces, or arrived too late to take part. The precise situation is unknown, especially because most of these claims in the infobox and the main body are WP:UNSOURCED. I've done some improvements, but I ran into more problems in doing so. It is striking that many of the states who were allegedly belligerents according to the infobox are not mentioned as having mobilised according to the infobox at Military mobilisation during the Hundred Days: Baden, Bavaria, Denmark, Liechtenstein, Portugal, Saxony, Sicily, Spain, Sweden, Tuscany, Württemberg, not even Naples. We do know some of these saw action (Sicily, Tuscany, Württemberg, and Naples were active in the Neapolitan War, for example), so this doesn't say everything yet. It could be that some troops were submerged in larger units under the command of an officer from some other state, e.g. Bavarian and Sardinian troops in an Austrian-dominated unit with an Austrian commander, so that doesn't mean these states did not participate. But we really need RS for WP:V on these claims. We can't just go around saying every little state in Europe *cough* Liechtenstein *cough* played a part in defeating Napoleon because they had like 20 soldiers in reserve that never marched towards the battlefield, let alone saw combat action. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 13:07, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

CN Spam

I replaced the fifteen {{cn|date=November 2022}} tags with a single {{More citations needed section|date=November 2022}} tag. Citation Needed spam makes any article hard to read, but having the tag at the end of nearly every line in a list is especially dreadful. Can we please not put them back unless we can get it down to less than half? Cheers, Last1in (talk) 00:27, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]