Two hundred years ago, on Aug. 8, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte embarked at Plymouth on a British warship for the second time in his life. On this occasion it was the ship of the line, the Northumberland.

JAMESTOWN, St. Helena — St. Helena, a small, craggy island in the South Atlantic Ocean, hasn’t seen many tourists in the past for good reason: It’s one of the most remote inhabited places in the world ...

In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, between South America and Africa, lies the island of St. Helena. Sitting 1,200 miles west of Windhoek, in Namibia, it’s one of the most remote places in the world: ...

Almost 200 years ago, a British warship transported Napoleon Bonaparte to his exile on the island of St. Helena, a place from where it would be impossible for him to escape ever again. Today, ...

Wanted: Short-statured man sporting tricorne hat with hand-in-waistcoat and unbridled desire to conquer Russia. The small, southern Atlantic Ocean island of St. Helena, where French military leader ...

In this Oct. 15, 2017, file photo, several images of Napoleon Bonaparte are shown in this collection of framed pictures on a wall in the Consulate hotel in Jamestown on St. Helena island in the ...

The terminal of St. Helena's new airport in 2014. Image courtesy of Flickr user David Stanley Upon his death in 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte was buried down the road from his St. Helena home, Longwood ...

May 5, 2021 marks the bicentenary of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte – an important date for St Helena, the second most remote inhabited island in the world, located in the middle of the South ...

Jacques-Louis David's famous painting of Napoleon crossing Saint-Bernard Pass during his 1800 invasion of northern Italy. With Ridley Scott’s new cinematic epic Napoleon hitting theaters on Nov 22, ...