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Edwin Louis Knipe When he emigrated to South Africa my grandfather Edwin Louis Knipe wore his kilt to church every Sunday as his grandfather Henry Porteous Knipe did in St. Helena. His grandfather, my great great grandfather, Henry Knipe changed his middle name from Bruce Boyce to Porteous to honor his patron Henry Porteous who was a Scot born and brought up in Edinburgh and on St. Helena was the East India Company's botanist and Superintendent of the Company's gardens. https://humphryknipe.com/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2020-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58c8788be3df286e7bca7ec8/1581384575033-AMU3ZZVRV9QO47SBHSBE/waterloo2.jpg Timeline 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58c8788be3df286e7bca7ec8/1582569503463-DJB5PH2O0IRRX6M7GVHF/mainstreetfowler1863.jpg Timeline Porteous House in Context - Main Street, 1863. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58c8788be3df286e7bca7ec8/1581384567935-K05CL6JBA4F2I6JQJ5CL/Coronation.jpg Timeline 1804. Napoleon snatches the imperial crown from the pope and crowns himself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58c8788be3df286e7bca7ec8/1582568962998-O0B17DA52D2FHWJE85KS/napoleon_portrait.jpg Timeline 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58c8788be3df286e7bca7ec8/1581384564065-EISE6ZR7I1RNDRYRFNYG/Jacques-Louis_David_007.jpg Timeline Napoleon in his glory days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58c8788be3df286e7bca7ec8/1581385105547-ZDGZFL1I2D7X17B3O58A/sainthelenaplatationhouse.jpg Timeline St Helena Plantation House, the Country Residence of the Governor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58c8788be3df286e7bca7ec8/1581384856189-PQ5NKOT7AS3OWPT17DWH/georgecockburn.jpg Timeline Admiral George Cockburn, who transported Napoleon to St Helena, pictured here burning down the Washington Whitehouse on August 24, 1814. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58c8788be3df286e7bca7ec8/1581384973652-CP94XLUQB60MD67E4EWY/sthelenaport.jpg Timeline St Helena in 1815 when Cockburn delivered his dangerous passenger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58c8788be3df286e7bca7ec8/1582569430200-8VPVZE82FPUXJ3QMXR8Q/oldporteoushouse.jpg Timeline Porteous House where Napoleon met Charlotte Knipe the evening of his first night on St Helena. Pictured here in 1863. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58c8788be3df286e7bca7ec8/1581384624609-IW8JXDV1U29J97Y6JA9M/waterloo.jpg Timeline Napoleon inspiring his Imperial guard at the battle of Waterloo which he lost. The victorious British exiled him to St Helena. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58c8788be3df286e7bca7ec8/1582569083482-T0CFND34KE1W0GS3W46Z/HMS+Bellerophon%2C+the+ship+that+carried+Napoleon+to+St.+Helena Timeline on passage from England to St Helena in 1815 on board HMS Northumberland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58c8788be3df286e7bca7ec8/1581384807420-ZXQGPDWKY8S3VROC4APF/sthelenaonmap.jpg Timeline St Helena, the remotest inhabited island in the British Empire, is 1,200 miles from South West Africa and 800 miles from South America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58c8788be3df286e7bca7ec8/1581385456484-UA4G88LEAQR9QSXWMR00/ComtesseAlbinedeMontholon.jpg Timeline 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.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58c8788be3df286e7bca7ec8/1581385085550-DV2M5WK99IM2AM3MO805/image-asset.jpeg Timeline St Helena: The Friar Rock in Friar's Valley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58c8788be3df286e7bca7ec8/1581385227519-MRWCEFYPIMSX64D4W1QE/Castleterrace.jpg Timeline St Helena Scene taken from the Castle Terrace. https://humphryknipe.com/charecter-bios daily 0.75 2020-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58c8788be3df286e7bca7ec8/1584485418288-08HNNF65YVJ6FEQN0SR7/Gourgaud-C-Chasselat-1821.jpg Character Bios Gaspard Gourgaud, (born Nov. 4, 1783, Versailles, Fr.—died July 25, 1852, Paris), French soldier and historian who accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte into exile at St. Helena and wrote important historical and biographical works about Napoleon. Gourgaud rose through the ranks of the French imperial army, was wounded a number of times, and apparently saved Napoleon from a pistol wound at the Battle of Brienne (January 1814). After a brief flirtation with royalist forces following Napoleon’s abdication in 1814, he rejoined the emperor during his “Hundred Days” and then voluntarily accompanied him into exile at St. Helena. Gourgaud’s two-volume Sainte-Hélène; Journal inédit de 1815 à 1818 (1899; The St. Helena Journal of General Baron Gourgaud) remains one of the basic accounts of Napoleon’s last years. Gourgaud returned to France in 1821, reentered the army, and continued to rise in rank. He wrote a number of valuable historical works, including Campagne de dix-huit cent quinze (1818; “The Campaign of 1815”), Napoléon et la grande armée en Russie (1824; Napoleon and the Grand Army in Russia), and Réfutation de la vie de Napoléon par Sir Walter Scott (1827; “Refutation of Sir Walter Scott’s Life of Napoleon”). In 1849 Gourgaud, by then a baron and a peer of France, was elected to the Legislative Assembly, where he became an influential supporter of Louis-Napoléon (later Napoleon III). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58c8788be3df286e7bca7ec8/1584485200819-G5UWNK5AD7YA60D6GGP8/ComtesseAlbinedeMontholon.jpg Character Bios 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.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58c8788be3df286e7bca7ec8/1584485180386-KCKFCZBF6X1KXATQ1S28/Rosebud+sketch.jpg Character Bios This drawing of a girl titled Rosebud (bouton de rose) has been floating around the internet and was brought to my attention by Albert Benhamou on his website http://www.lautresaintehelene.com/other-st-helena-index.html The costume seems to be contemporary and the hands are on show –Charlotte Knipe was known for her beautiful hands. Also the caption is in English and French which may mean something. 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