Napoleon in his glory days.
1804. Napoleon snatches the imperial crown from the pope and crowns himself.
Battle of Waterloo, 1815. Napoleon's forces were defeated by the British and Prussians, marked the end of his reign and of France's domination in Europe
Napoleon inspiring his Imperial guard at the battle of Waterloo which he lost. The victorious British exiled him to St Helena.
on passage from England to St Helena in 1815 on board HMS Northumberland.
The iconic painting by Sir William Quiller Orchardson of Napoleon on his way to Saint Helena watched from a respectful distance by French officers who have chosen to share his exile with him. This was the print that hung in my grandfather’s living room that so intrigued me as a young child.
Admiral George Cockburn, who transported Napoleon to St Helena, pictured here burning down the Washington Whitehouse on August 24, 1814.
St Helena, the remotest inhabited island in the British Empire, is 1,200 miles from South West Africa and 800 miles from South America.
St Helena in 1815 when Cockburn delivered his dangerous passenger.
St Helena Scene taken from the Castle Terrace.
Comtesse Albine de Montholon, a member of Napoleon’s entourage, who writes in her St Helena memoirs: Souvenirs de Sainte-Helene:
“The daughter of the house introduced us to one of her friends, Miss Kneips, the prettiest person we could see: tall, blonde, handsome waist, fair complexion. Her freshness, her beauty, made us call her Rosebud and we never called her anything else. Her mother was the widow of an officer of the company and lived there from some modest pension.”
St Helena Plantation House, the Country Residence of the Governor.
Porteous House where Napoleon met Charlotte Knipe the evening of his first night on St Helena. Pictured here in 1863.
St Helena: The Friar Rock in Friar's Valley.
Porteous House in Context - Main Street, 1863.