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

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 ...

Once master over an empire of seventy million people, he would now become the emperor of the tiny island of Elba. His enemies thought Napoleon's exile would bring peace to Europe. Napoleon had ...

Instead, they sent him back into exile and took no chances that ... Once the ruler of nearly all of Europe, Napoleon found himself confined to an island ten miles long and six miles wide.

Napoleon, in his personal and romantic life, was on an island. Conquest transports us to August 1814, when Napoleon is exiled on Elba Island. The historical background is that the Treaty of ...

What shaped Napoleon? Read on to find out ... a mere year after the French purchased the island from the Genoese government. Although his family had minor aristocratic roots, life was tough ...

This picture shows the scene in Torbay on 7th August 1815, when Napoleon was transferred from the Bellerophon to HMS Northumberland for transportation to exile in the island of St. Helena.

In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) escaped from his exile on the island of Elba and headed to Paris with his troops. When he landed on the French mainland, a French newspaper referred to him ...