Napoleon & St Helena

Name: Napoleon & St Helena
Brand: The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus
SKU: 9781905791545
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On the Island of Exile

Autor: Johannes Willms

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Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus

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Isolated in the vastness of the South Atlantic and fortress-like in appearance, the Island of St Hel...

Informace o knize

Autor

Johannes Willms

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2008

Stránek

240

EAN

9781905791545

ISBN

1905791542

Enbook ID

05025982

Vydavatel

The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus

Hmotnost

400

Rozměry

125 x 168 x 13

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Isolated in the vastness of the South Atlantic and fortress-like in appearance, the Island of St Helena was important for centuries only as a victualling station for ships of the British East India Company, on their long voyages to and from India via the Cape of Good Hope. It was on one of these journeys that Arthur Wellesley, later the Duke of Wellington, took note of the island's remote impregnability. It was Wellington who suggested St Helena as Napoleon Bonaparte's place of imprisonment and exile after his defeat at Waterloo in 1815. Until his death in 1821, the former Emperor spent his final years under constant British guard. His exile transformed a speck on the maritime map into the most famous island in the world.

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