The 'Turkish style' sabre was specially commissioned to mark his ascension to French Emperor in 1804 and took several months ...

the one where he died, was a very small house ... At the utmost there still exists at St. Helena a willow tree planted by Napoleon, but that is not certain.” In reply to an inquiry as to ...

May 5 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on the island of St. Helena. In 1847, the American Medical Association was founded in Philadelphia. In 1862 ...

Napoleon Pelletier, a French Canadian, led the founding of St. Anne Shrine in the 1920s, and remnants of the Catholic enclave ...

The St. Anne Shrine, once a thriving community near Lake Wales, Florida, now exists only in fragments. Founded in the 1920s by French Canadian Napoleon ... then called Lake Helena and is now ...

On May 5, 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte died in his bed at Longwood House at ... Instead, he was buried on St. Helena at a site known as the Sane Valley, and subsequently the Valley of the Tomb.

A monument commemorating St. Helena military members who died in service to their country is back on public display.

Colonel Edward Buckley Wynyard was the former military secretary to Sir Hudson Lowe, the Governor of St Helena. Napoleon was banished to the remote south Atlantic outpost in 1815 after his ...

Prior to his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, the French ruler gave the saber to one of his most trusted generals, ...

PRINCESS ANNE, MD — On May 5th in 1821, French military leader Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on the remote island of Saint Helena. But years before his death, there were reported plans to ...

SINCE St Helena Hospice opened to patients 40 years ago today it has helped 60,000 people in their time of most need. The hospice opened its doors in Highwoods, Colchester, on May 20, 1985. Since then ...