St Helena: Napoleon's Last Battlefield
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- Napoleon was one of the most significant soldiers and statesmen in world history. And his last years spent on the remote island of St Helena only adds to the fascination of his story. Dan Snow visits the key sites on St Helena, linked to Napoleon's stay on this island.
St Helena has been COVID free since the onset of the pandemic
Where better place to isolate than on the second most remote inhabited island in the world
Why was he called the most dangerous man? He is a military genius!! One of the great leader!
That’s what made him so dangerous but to me he was maybe not a savior but atleast a protector of France.
According western standard He is dangerous
He slept with your mother
he almost brought the entirety of europe under his foot the only way they could beat him at waterloo was to form a coalition
You answered your own question..
Dan, I so nearly contacted you to get a BBC documentary commissioned looking at the life of Napoleon after Waterloo - and here it is. It's just a shame it is so short, there is so much more to include!
The BBC don't deserve this gold
He wasn't alone on this prison island, the stories are out there, but it the caretakers 2nd hand ones
My 3 times great grandfather was harbour Master on St Helena at the time Napoleon was there.
Fascinating. I was priveliged to visit both sites in 2018, while working with the island government, and pay my quiet respects to a man who changed the world
Longwood wasn't built when Napoleon arrived. Instead he was lodged with the Balcombe family on a property called 'the Briars', John Balcombe being the agent for the East India Company on the island.
@JONATHAN SUTCLIFFE I don't understand what you're on about.
@JONATHAN SUTCLIFFE are you not mentally well? I hope you get the help you need.
@@sirdudleynightshade8747 I never fail to remember Napoleon when I drive past the Balcombe family's property on the Mornington Penninsula.
I visited St.Helena and Ascension Island back in 1971 as one of the crew of Clan Lines Clan Ranald.We carried the first draught lager to the island.Going ashore we were greeted by the lager company`s representative who,mistaking us for islanders,insisted we must try the new drink.Watching this video it was quite strange to see Napoleons gravesite and think`I was there 50 odd years ago.
Napoleon wasn’t the only prisoner to be kept there. Boer POWs were imprisoned there during the Boer war, however hundreds died from disease and are too buried on St. Helena, making this island very interesting indeed. I was privileged to visit both sites during my travels with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. Being ex RN and a field gunner I was particularly interested in the Boer story.
in the last Sharp book Richard Sharp visits Napoleon shortly before he passes away on St Helena. Sharp is very surprised that Napoleon recongizes him as a old Rifleman.
Naopleon is like wise surprised that Sharp is now living in Normandy France and speaks good enough French. at the end of the meeting Sharp gets some thing that he will treasure for the rest of his days
Thank you Dan, fascinating
Happy I found you... St. Helena looks like a magnificent place to explore. Maybe one day I will. Thank you!
It is said that he died from long term poisoning (arsenic was mentioned when they analyzed a hair clipping in the 20th century) nevertheless and regardless of English hatred for this man, he was a truly remarkable stateman and a military genius of the highest quality...
He was far greater emperor than any English king or queen. That's why it took entire Europe to defeat him.
He was a tyrant, responsible for the deaths of a lot of human beings. All the fan-boi swooning in the world doesn't change that.
@@mein3324 Lmao. France had 3x the population of Britain during the napoleonic wars. And they still lost. France had a greater population than Britain and Prussia combined. And "Entire Europe" who were pretty much solely funded by the British, the economic powerhouse. The GDP per capita of the British was 3190 international dollars equivalent (the highest in the world) compared to the mere 1876 of the french. "Great emperor". I would definitely say that would apply to those that lead britain to a prosperous advance over the French. Lead Britain to create the modern world via the industrial revolution- which the French could only follow. As is their place.
@@lokischeissmessiah5749 Only reason britain was able to remain safe is cuz of english channel.
If they had no english channel britain would've doomed.
@@mein3324 the English channel..and the Royal Navy which dominated it. France spent its resources on land armies, Britain did not. Britain spent its resources on naval military might, france did not- as evidenced by how france was smashed by the royal navy at trafalgar and in egypt.
Incredibly Informative! It was very interesting and well made.
In the meantime, we know that Napoleon was slowly poisened.
estava olhando no google maps, amei a ilhazinha!
"You used to be so amused at Napoleon in rags and the language that he used.
Go to him, now, he calls you, you can't refuse. When you ain't got nothin', you got nothin' to lose. You're invisible now, you've got no secrets to conceal."
(Quoting from Verse 4 of Bob Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone)
My home island
There was a story that lord Cochrane was going to pick Napoleon up from st Helena and take him to rule Venezuela,or another south American country but unfortunately he died before the shop arrived
What a name of the island
You left out how when he got to St Helena and stayed in the pavillioin at The Briars, the only person on the island who could speak French was Williams Batacombe's 14 year old daughter Betsy who became very close friends with Napaleon, often visting him once he moved to Longwood House.
The French officers and servants were jealous of the young English girl, who addressed Napoleon as "Boney", without being reprimanded by him.
I'm sure he quite enjoyed exile in the end.
Where's the story
There's nothing we can do
Probably should have accepted the coalitions generous offer in 1814 (before forced abdication).
Watch the DNA scientists analyze samples from St Helena, it's very interesting, as well as the famous ship the bounty DNA on that island
Pitcairn Island is where the bounty was wrecked.
Lol, the most dangerous man in the world a French man. Allí esta el detalle. I am glad this narrator recognizes that this man was the most dangerous man in the world. 🤔
I often wonder how Europe would be today had the Prussian army not arrived at Waterloo when they did because Wellington was almost done. Would Napoleon have conquered all and ousted all the royalty? Would Europe be a better place? Who knows
Napoleon would not have been able to defeat the British and Prussians in detail even if he manage to squeeze a victory at Waterloo on account of further Prussian delay. He'd have to break contact and regroup - and would still be deprived significant numbers of his veteran forces if the Prussians pressed their advantages. That would be hard enough to do even without the hemorrhoids which is argued to have cost him Waterloo because of how it hampered his command and control abilities. Yes, that's right: Hemorrhoids.
@@skoshman1 not necessarily. Of the Prussians had been wiped out at Ligny, its not out of the question that the French wouldn't have been able to defeat the British even at significant costs of their own forces. The Anglo allied centre was almost broken and the French were pressing the British flanks inwards. Wellington was too intelligent to descend into an all out battle of annihilation and may have retreated. However, the real threat after would have been the Austrian and Russian armies who had assembled over one hundred thousand men each who would have marched on France. Also, the British and Prussians would have sent countless reserves into the fold. At this point, the numbers game had Napoleon's fate written.
most experts agree that Napoleon would off lost at Waterloo irrespective of the Prussian's, it like giving the US Credit for WW1 Victory i.e. technically they helped but weren't essential.
In short had Napoleon won you would of had Slavery existing far longer, a French dominance not British, in short it would off been a bleaker, more authoritative world, places like Africa and Asia would off suffered far worse than they did and it would off had dire effect's on the right's of the Individual, or the very idea of it. In short it would off put the world back 200 years. Plus Waterloo station would be in Paris not London :)
@@davidrenton such shit you talk, the catholic emancipation act didnt happen until 1829 , with Wellington as its champion, napoleon was the enlightenment on horseback ffs !
@@davidrenton ...and how could Africa and Asia have suffered any worse than they did ??
Haters gonna hate. Freddy Napoleon:)
Can you imagine the cost of taking this guy all that way. Who cares he died so long ago.
Why was he even captured? Have the French give him to the British of was he captured in a battle?
He was more exiled than captured
You got one part there wrong, Hitler gave the order to bring back Napoleons remains to France, not the state of France.
Napoléon's remains were brought back in France in 1840 by the order of the king of the French Louis-Philippe...
Hitler ordered the return to France of Napoléon's son the king of Rome, Napoléon II, the Duke of Reichstadt in 1940, since his remains were buried in Vienna with his Habsbourg family.
@@MajorDenisBloodnok no lol
Kinda sad
Funny an Englishman is the most fascinated about Napoleon
Why is that funny?
There’s a place here in Australia called St. Helena island and when the British coloniesed they sent an annoying aboriginal man to
St Helena and called him Napoleon. Unfortunately he only lasted 3 days because he made a canoe and paddled to the mainland😂
Thats unlikely.
St Helena Wasn't Napoleon Battlefield He Was Exiled
Its metephorical
Napoleon had a son also
I’m amazed how nepotism has got this guy these programs
thats Arsenic
I hope that didn't cost too much to make...
Maybe he was there maybe it was one of his several doubles that died on St Helena... Medical evidence is questionable...however we will never know for sure...
I visited Longwood c1994. Undoubtedly a great general but a man who was afraid of being assassinated. Measures for protection are still evident at Longwood. It is a pity that the French do not honour a man of peace rather than this man who caused death and destruction throughout Europe on an immense scale.
@@johnrowland9570 more microscopic revisionism.
@@reginald_1458 Revisionism? As Science improves history changes. Truth is truth.
@@greenjack1959l science? What does science have to do with napoleon?
@@reginald_1458 Revisionism. Science finds previously unknown facts that change accepted historical teachings.
Manchista
*Imagine a dictator who was directly responsible for multiple wars that resulted in over 3.2 million deaths, plus 600 hundred thousand civilians dead as a result of starvation due to crop burning and confiscation of harvest and livestock, as well as well documented civilian massacres in Spain, Portugal, Prussia and Russia.....yet 200 years later he is held up by the French nation as some kind of "hero?"*
Such is human nature. Cry about it.
Yes we French people will always be celebrating Napoleon as a true hero, you forgot to mention that he was called up to defend the motherland when all other European monarchs were plotting and acting to enslave the French after the Revolution... I don't care where you're from and what motive you may have to denigrate the greatest Stateman the world has ever known... Respect and Glory to Napoleon Bonaparte !!!
@@domdolittle Stalin defended Russia against the German Wermacht.....by your own standard that makes Stalin , a murder of 35 million people....a hero !
@@BloodOfYeshuaMessiah Wars are criminal by nature, throwing rubbery figures onto the stats is highly controversial, but to compare Napoleon to Hitler or Stalin is totally insane, of course you probably think you know better... amen
After the French Revolution many of the monarchies of Europe got together mainly with British encouragement and finance to defeat France as the were afraid of this idea of republicanism. How dare they thing a farmer could be equal to a duke or prince! This thing could catch on! Had to be stopped before the same happened in England etc.
This doesn’t excuse everything but look at all the good and lasting things he left behind.
No wonder the French love him.
Let women rule the world for a change lol 😆
Thatcher? No thanks! LOL
Worst idea of all time
Sorry, i'm an egalitarian, so kindly stfu. Thanks!