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Napoleon in exile on St Helena 1815-1821

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Napoleon in exile 1815-1821

On the 5th May 2021, the 200th anniversary of the death of Napoleon on St Helena will be commemorated. Following his defeat at Waterloo in June 1815, Napoleon was exiled for over five years on the remote island of St Helena. My website tells the story of how, guarded by over 3,500 soldiers and sailors, Napoleon fought his last campaign against his British gaolers.

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The Final Years

...After his defeat at Waterloo in 1815, Napoleon spent his final years in exile on St Helena imprisoned by the British Government. It was here that he fought his last campaign continually baiting his British gaolers. During the morning he dictated the memoire of his triumphs both civil and military and afternoons he worked in his garden or rode around the grounds of his prison estate.
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St Helena

...Napoleon fought his last campaign whilst he was imprisoned in exile on St Helena. Repeated skirmishes were fought over such petty issues of the quantity of wines consumed by his Household; his involvement with a number of local women across the island and his health, ever afterwards claimed by the French to have been caused by arsenic poisoning.
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The Atlantic World

…For over 17 years Britain and France had clashed repeatedly in struggles across the Atlantic World. From Buenos Aires in South America, to Wexford in Ireland and Manchester in England, the ideas of revolutionary France had spread by insurrection, rebellion and revolution. Even after his defeat at Waterloo in 1815, people still looked to Napoleon to secure their liberty.
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London

...Where those responsible for Napoleon’s imprisonment were determined that he should never return to Europe whose victorious rulers were intent on the restoration of peace throughout the Continent. Post-war economic recession and demands for political change led to riots across Northern towns and cities as the Alien Office kept watch on liberal sympathisers.
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This website is dedicated to the memory of Sir Robert Birley, KCMG, 1903-1982. Historian and Educationalist.