A Grand Manoeuvre! or, The Rogues march to the Island of Elba

In reality Napoleon was treated with dignity after the abdication on 6 April 1814 and retained his title as Emperor, but in this print published only a week later (and another week before Napoleon left Paris), George Cruikshank shows him dragged off by urchins to a boat which a devil will row to Elba, a fiery island where a gallows awaits him. The procession is the humiliating ‘rogue’s march’ of the disgraced soldier who is drummed out of the regiment, a halter around his neck, his coat worn inside out and his hands tied behind his back.