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 ...

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 ...

Though Napoleon Bonaparte was often known to prefer simple meals, his last meal was an extravagant breakfast full of traditional French dishes.

As Napoleon explained to Dr. Barry O’Meara, the Irish doctor who looked after him during his final years in exile on the South Atlantic island of St. Helena (1815-1821): “Had I known in 1806 ...

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 ...

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 ...