As many Friends of the British Overseas Territories will know, soon after Waterloo Napoleon was exiled to Saint Helena in the South Atlantic, forming the now-British Overseas Territory’s main ...
Travellers to this remote South Atlantic island are rewarded with rugged hiking trails, underwater adventures and the chance to meet the world’s oldest living land animal. Here are seven unmissable ...
“Here on St Helena there is a promising future for holidays hinging on Napoleon, certainly up to 2021, the bicentenary of the emperor’s death.” ”Three areas are open to the ...
Written in Napoleon’s spidery handwriting, the remnants of his lessons from a French count also in exile on Saint Helena show how the headstrong leader doodled to combat boredom, and struggled ...
Napoleon at Saint Helena (German: Napoleon auf Sankt Helena) is a 1929 German silent historical film directed by Lupu Pick and starring Werner Krauss, Hanna Ralph and Albert Bassermann.
Helena. KAUFFMANN: No one escapes from St. Helena. This far-away island, this isolated piece of rock, beaten by the winds, sinister. When Napoleon sees this fortress for the first time ...
This time, they would take no chances; they exiled Napoleon to the remote island of St. Helena, thousands of miles from France. He would never hold power again.
This little work, composed when the former Emperor was in exile on St. Helena, and Englished by retired engineer and British military officer Maguire, offers some interesting criticism of Caesar’s ...
1,200 miles off the southwest coast of Africa is the isolated island of Saint Helena. The island was famous for being the final place of exile for Napoleon; is also home to a 192-year-old tortoise ...