T A M B O R A

illustration Napoleon Bonaparte

Mount Tambora erupted on April 11, 1815, the largest volcanic eruption along human civilization on earth, where the eruption is estimated to have a magnitude of 4 times the eruption of Mount Krakatau in 1883 or about 6 million times the atomic bomb strength of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. This great eruption formed a caldera with a diameter of about 6 KM and a depth of about 1 KM. The eruption of this mountain causes the clump of dust to spread up to 1300 KM from the mountain area. Dark clouds from the great eruption cover this mountain peak for 2 days, the smoke eruption reaches 43 KM until it reaches the stratosphere and how much fixed dust particles in the earth's atmosphere at a height of 10-30 KM until several years later. This is what causes the world's climate change where in North America and Europe occurs year without summer and consequently there is failure of harvest in the northern hemisphere. in 1816.

Archaeological evidence shows that the impact of the eruption of Mount Tambora this resulted in 3 kingdoms around the mountain also devastated and destroyed, the three kingdoms are Sanggar, Pekat and Tambora.

The collapse of Napoleon Bonaparte

The great eruption of Mount Tambora in April 1815 not only destroyed and devastated three small kingdoms around Mount Tambora. Moreover, far away in mainland Europe, precisely in Belgium, troops under the command of the French ruler, General Napoleon Bonaparte had to bow at the hands of England and Prussia.

Yes, three days after Tambora erupted violently, Napolean troops trapped enemy. The reason, during the day was worsening weather. Rain continues to flush the area. In fact, the French soldiers are heading for the fight.

Due to bad weather, the wagon wheel cannon trapped in mud. All vehicles can not go smoothly. The ground is slippery, covered with snow. Understandably, the thick ash from the eruption of Mount Tambora is still scattered in the atmosphere thus blocking the sunlight that fell to the earth.

The Waterloo war was a tragic story for Napoleon. The greatness of Napoleon in subduing his enemies is over. He also surrendered.

The general was then discharged to Saint Helena Island, a small island south of the Atlantic Ocean. On the remote island that he spent his time to death in 1821 due to cancer.

Kenneth Spink, a geologist theorized, that the bad weather caused by the eruption of Mount Tambora became one of the triggers of Napoleon's defeat. At a scientific meeting on Applied Geosciences in Warwick, England (1996), Spink said that the eruption of Mount Tambora had a major impact on the world's climate order at that time, including bad weather at Waterloo in June 1815.