The committee noted that the number of days spent by passengers on ships in the area has increased by one hundred fifty percent in the last fifteen years.
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The one thing that could undermine this whole effort is if you had read stories thelasthundreddays about how this money was being wasted and the tens of billions of dollars.
Nine months later, in a panic over rumours that nervous European leaders were scheming to have him shipped off to the remote Atlantic island of Saint Helena, Napoleon slipped aboard a departing ship and strode back into Paris for one last run at ruling Europe (the HundredDays), ending in his defeat at Waterloo.