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.

The campaign that made Napoleon famous in France was his short-lived conquest of Egypt. At one time ... his final years in exile on the South Atlantic island of St. Helena (1815-1821): “Had ...

To find out who was involved in handling the exile ... Napoleon’s time on Saint Helena. The rest of the committee is made up mostly of historians specializing in Napoleon’s life, with some ...

Instead, they sent him back into exile ... St. Helena. This far-away island, this isolated piece of rock, beaten by the winds, sinister. When Napoleon sees this fortress for the first time ...

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 ...

A remote island, renowned for being the place of Napoleon's exile, will soon open its doors to tourists. St Helena, a small ...