Hi everybody, welcome to Dan's Note History at 200 years ago Napoleon Bonaparte, the

Emperor Napoleon, died in captivity in St Helena, in Longwood House St Helena.

Last year, as some of you all remember, I was lucky enough to go to St Helena. I made

the journey out to one of the most remote inhabited places on planet Earth. It's over

a thousand miles from Africa, thousands of miles from South America.

The tension island is near a speck of land and that's 800 miles away. This was the safest

place that the British government could think to store the most dangerous man in the world.

Napoleon Bonaparte, who threatened the entire social and political order in Europe, did

not want that guy escaping again, no way. So I went there, I explored the island, it's

an incredible place and I went up to Longwood House. It's been lovingly restored by Michel

Dan Cwan Martinot. It was the honorary French consulate there, you're going to hear from

him in this podcast. He showed me around Longwood House, explained how he's restored it and

what it was like and Napoleon was there in exile. While I was in St Helena, I made a film

there for History Hit TV, that's available free on History Hit TV, no subscription required,

no nothing. Just go and watch it. You can see me destroy myself as I try to climb up

Jacob's ladder, it's exhausting, you can see what I mean. You can see the massive fortifications

that were built on St Helena from the 17th to the 20th century as that vital island that

sat astride the shipping lanes to Asia and South Africa that needed to be protected from

Britain's enemies. It's a surprising and remarkable place. Please go and check out that

documentary on History Hit TV, it's totally free and you can also see articles that I've

written on the History Hit website. In the meantime, enjoy this trip around Longwood House.

Michelle, how are you? It's an honor to be here. Thank you very much. I can't wait to have

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