The island’s first permanent resident ... of land containing Longwood House and Napoleon’s grave. Long before Napoleon arrived, St. Helena had a series of notable visitors.

They needed a prison for the most dangerous man in the World. Napoleon had seized supreme power in France. He’d marched his ...

Saint Helena came under informal British rule via the East India Company in 1657, when Oliver Cromwell granted them a charter to govern the island ... Napoleon. Longwood house and the original ...

several Zulu leaders and the Sultan of Zanzibar also spent some time on St Helena. On the island you can admire Napoleon's original grave from a distance and also visit the Longwood House where he ...

KAUFFMANN: No one escapes from St. Helena. This far-away island, this isolated ... moment this is going to be his grave. Once the ruler of nearly all of Europe, Napoleon found himself confined ...