St Helena
…3,600 soared to over 6,000 as troops arrived to prevent his escape. Napoleon’s Life on St Helena On St Helena, Napoleon lived under house arrest. For first few weeks, he…
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Bibliography
…at Longwood, Napoleon’s Exile on Saint Helena. New York, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999. Korngold, Ralph. The Last Years of Napoleon, His Captivity on St Helena. New York, Harcourt, Brace…
FINDING NAPOLEON EXPLAINED
…of documented facts from Napoleon’s exile on St. Helena: Napoleon’s unexplained friendship with a local enslaved man, his thwarted attempt to buy the man’s freedom, and his payment to that…
FINDING NAPOLEON IN CUBA Part 4
Napoleonic Links from St Helena to Cuba As I posted in June 2011, Napoleon Bonaparte isn’t the only thing interesting about St Helena Island. After all, Napoleon’s exile, which ran…
FINDING NAPOLEON BONAPARTE IN CUBA, PART 2
…1819, Napoleon’s mother sent the Corsican-born physician Francesco Antommarchi to St Helena. From the start, Antommarchi and Napoleon had a stormy relationship. On several occasions Napoleon dismissed the doctor, only…
Finding Napoleon
…to power juxtaposed against the story of his last love affair. Told creatively and with excellent research!”—Stephanie Dray, NYT & USA Today Bestselling Author of Historical Fiction, including America’s First Daughterand her latest, The…
Finding Napoleon in Historical Fiction
…the Bard had lived after or during Napoleon’s time—would have depicted Napoleon? How would he have portrayed Napoleon’s relationship with the Jewish people? I think Shakespeare would have treated Napoleon…
Finding Napoleon in Paris
…first “Finding Napoleon in Paris.” Napoleon’s Sarcophagus in Les Invalides On a family visit to Paris, I remember my parents debating the architecture of Les Invalides. Was it a good…
Finding Napoleon’s “Ashes” in Paris 179 Years Ago
…government, saw his prediction about Napoleon’s ashes verified. On December 20, 1848, Napoleon’s nephew became France’s first elected president. Four years later, he declared himself Emperor Napoleon III. For the…
Napoleon on St Helena: Reading Books
My last post covered a few of the ways Napoleon Bonaparte filled his days during his five-and-a-half-year exile on St Helena Island. However, his most important pastime—the one he did…