Reflections on A Journey to St Helena

Reflections on St Helena, Napoleon's exile, and English attitudes towards Napoleon.

Sunday, 25 March 2012

The End for the St Helena Independent

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The St Helena Independent has announced that the next issue will be its last. Its demise seems to have been occasioned by the decision of t...
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Sunday, 11 March 2012

Thomas Moore: "To Sir Hudson Lowe"

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Thomas Moore, Irish Poet (1779-1852) A friend of Lord Byron and of Lord John Russell, the future Whig Prime Minister who had visited Napol...
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Thursday, 1 March 2012

An American at Waterloo: The DeLanceys, Wellington and Hudson Lowe

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Colonel Sir William Howe DeLancey, KCB (1778 - 1815) Born into a wealthy New York Loyalist family, originally French Huguenots from Caen, Co...
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Friday, 24 February 2012

Napoleon, Science and the Egyptian Campaign

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Hels's blog is entitled "ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly", so although I follow it I have not included a permanent link here. H...
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Monday, 20 February 2012

Endemics of St Helena

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Trochetiopsis ebenus Michel has recently put two interesting posts on M. Dancoisne-Martineau - artiste peintre . One contains beautiful pain...
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