Episode 4 of 6

Surrender to Maitland

When: 15 July 1815
Where: Rochefort
Part of: Fall of Napoleon: abdication, surrender, exile and the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1815)

Napoleon surrendered to Captain Frederick Maitland of HMS Bellerophon on 15 July 1815.

Unable to remain in France or escape from it, Napoleon surrendered to Captain Frederick Maitland of HMS Bellerophon in the early morning of 15 July 1815 and was transported to England. This ended 22 years of almost continuous war between Britain and France.

Sources

HMS Northumberland (1798) Wikipedia, revision of 2026-07-23
HMS Bellerophon (1786) Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-29

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