The following year he was forced by a coalition of French marshals to abdicate, and he was exiled to the Mediterranean Island of Elba. But during a European conference to redraw the map after France's fall, he returned to France and regained power. The combined forces of Prussia, Russia, Britain, and Austria finally toppled the 'Little Corporal' at the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815. He surrendered to Britain, and was banished to the Island of St Helena, in the South Atlantic Ocean, about 2000 kms west of Africa, where he died six years later. His radical reforms in all parts of Europe cultivated the ground for the revolutions of the 1800s.
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Brooks was born in Mount Vernon, New York, and studied at Cornell University 1917-1921 before taking up a job as a reporter on the Seattle Times in 1922. Returning to New York, he worked as an advertising copywriter before joining the founding staff of the New Yorker magazine in 1926, where he became known for his personable prose style and impeccable essays. In 1929 he married Katherine Angell, the magazine's first fiction editor, and he remained a contributor for many years. He is also known in more academic circles for his revised 1959 edition of Elements of Style , apparently a much-used grammar and composition text. We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star.