We continued to Ascension, two days from Jamestown, where a feast was held at the St Helena Club. While Napoleon put St Helena on the map, Ascension’s key role in recent history was as a staging ...

After Napoleon Bonaparte's final defeat in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, he was exiled to St. Helena, one of the world's ...

As the honorary French consul on the British island of St. Helena, he oversees Longwood House, Napoleon Bonaparte’s home in exile from 1815 to 1821, the last years of his life. Dancoisne ...

Yet despite its remoteness, St. Helena is known all over the world for its most famous visitor, who died there 200 years ago. Napoleon Bonaparte – the first emperor of France, and conqueror of ...

The most famous resident of Saint Helena, a tiny island in the South Atlantic, was larger than life. Napoleon Bonaparte spent the last five years of his life in exile on the island–one of the ...

The Saint Helena Napoleonic Heritage group, which is dedicated to preserving Napoleon’s memory on the island, plans to hold several events in coming days, livestreamed if the island's internet ...

But the government of Lord Liverpool, which had for years fought a life and death struggle with Napoleon, would have none of this and decided to send him to St. Helena, a remote volcanic island in ...

The Saint Helena Napoleonic Heritage group, which is dedicated to preserving Napoleon’s memory on the island, plans to hold several events in coming days, livestreamed if the island’s internet ...