The island of Saint Helena, a top destination for Napoleon buffs

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    It's an island so remote that it takes a five-day boat ride from South Africa's Cape Town just to get there. But the voyage to Saint Helena is definitely worth it. This largely unspoilt British territory is home to barely 4,000 people. While some have never lived anywhere else, others come here to work for just a year or two. Once home to Napoleon Bonaparte, Saint Helena is also a favourite destination for tourists wishing to discover history. FRANCE 24 takes you to check it out.
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  • @williamfulgham2010
    @williamfulgham2010 4 года назад +10

    Obviously this video was produced several years ago well before the opening of the airport. Also, no mention was made of the internet although even today there is a very limited satellite link with the internet. We are all hoping that the island is able to connect to an undersea fiber link connecting west Africa and Brazil possibly in another two years or so. I noticed she does not use the more popular pronunciation of Saint Helena.

  • @unknownfromkashmir
    @unknownfromkashmir 8 дней назад +1

    Even more than Napoleon I fondly think of visiting St Helena to appreciate Fernão Lopes’ marooning and for his spending 30 solitary years there ( he was brutually tortured for reverting to Islam in Goa , India and refusing to go back to Christianity ) and with no one arm and disfigured body , with perhaps a rooster whom he befriended that had gone overboard a passing ship. Would love to be there where he once he once might have strolled around in search of fire or forage !

  • @StatelessPerson
    @StatelessPerson 6 лет назад +25

    Zero mention of the new airport, open a very short time ago if I remember correctly. Does that date the piece? -- And I was disappointed to hear nothing about his remarkable disinterment and relocation back to Paris, which was quite an episode that eventually had to have had an effect on the eventual rapprochement between the UK and France through Louis Napoleon and Queen Victoria. Or the legendary young English girl who formed a kind of relationship with the Emperor, but I was most disappointed not to have heard more about the new airport, which last I saw was soon to open.

  • @balayethossainjoy1345
    @balayethossainjoy1345 2 года назад +4

    Saint Helena is very beautiful and wonderful place to visit if I Win my Lutto I will visit their From Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇿🇦

  • @edricklawrenceong7776
    @edricklawrenceong7776 3 года назад +13

    It's not so isolated anymore, nowadays it's just a single layover away from CDG.

  • @seferino
    @seferino 5 лет назад +30

    One of the best strategists.

  • @MendAmar
    @MendAmar 2 года назад +13

    0:35 Imagine Napoleon seeing a island to turn into a small city that back in his days it was just only his House.

    • @xixi1x34
      @xixi1x34 2 года назад

      Really?

    • @sebastians.9821
      @sebastians.9821 Год назад +2

      @@xixi1x34 no there were people and slaves living down bellow. His home was located in the upper parts of the island were it was humid. He lived relatively close to his jailer’s home.

    • @xixi1x34
      @xixi1x34 Год назад

      @@sebastians.9821 was he allowed to walk and rome on island?

    • @sebastians.9821
      @sebastians.9821 Год назад +2

      @@xixi1x34 cute story, he got along splendidly with his first jailer, also with a little 12 year old girl named Betsy Balcombe. Napoleon would race along the road before he moved to the Longwood House. He would also chat up soldiers. After he moved to the Longwood House and Betsy left his demeanor changed. He would walk around the outskirts and look down below, but I don’t believe he was allowed to mingle with people anymore. They were afraid he would sneak messages and try to escape. His new jailer didn’t even allow him to see his wife and son nor allow family members to visit him. He complained bitterly about the climate. Eventually he barely ever left his home and sickened.

    • @motivationallizard6644
      @motivationallizard6644 4 месяца назад

      That’s Cape Town not St. Helena.

  • @JourneyBliss
    @JourneyBliss 6 лет назад +4

    Looks great

  • @Brandon-nl1nf
    @Brandon-nl1nf 10 месяцев назад +6

    There’s nothing we can do

  • @coyotedust
    @coyotedust 4 месяца назад +2

    Imagine if Napoleon and Robert E. Lee were on the same side at the same time.

  • @aprajita6486
    @aprajita6486 Год назад +1

    I wanna see this oh God can u hear me plz took me there

  • @idontknowexactlywhoiam2207
    @idontknowexactlywhoiam2207 6 лет назад +2

    Nice video..

  • @prabhatmondal5552
    @prabhatmondal5552 2 года назад +1

    ভালো লাগলো ।

  • @Alex-zi8eh
    @Alex-zi8eh 3 года назад +27

    “Wait who’s in charge of France?”
    “Mee!” Said Napoleon tying to take over Europe.
    *Luckily They Vanished Him Off to an Island.*
    But he came back!
    Luckily They Vanished Him to Another Island.

  • @PhilDaBank
    @PhilDaBank 2 года назад

    A rabbit hole about the French Revolution brought me here..
    What year is it ???

  • @chaosXP3RT
    @chaosXP3RT 6 лет назад +44

    Napoleon Bonaparte was the most successful general in history. He lost only 7 battles

    • @danishtan4136
      @danishtan4136 4 года назад +4

      But the loss was a lot

    • @deuxpomme9777
      @deuxpomme9777 4 года назад +16

      like Hannibal though, won the battles but lost the war
      If you want success look at Alexanders campaigns, something Napoleon himself admired

    • @ray817oneDEEP
      @ray817oneDEEP 3 года назад +6

      My homie Khan was the greatest

    • @mrjjh121290
      @mrjjh121290 3 года назад +4

      nah it was alexander

    • @andreasschwarz1532
      @andreasschwarz1532 3 года назад

      As if the Americans want to conquer South Amerika now !

  • @user-qy6xl1lb9b
    @user-qy6xl1lb9b 6 месяцев назад

    You ready baby. Brother said this is our second home

  • @YuRiSunga
    @YuRiSunga 3 года назад +5

    5:29 is Napoleon sleeping?

  • @addysidhu5669
    @addysidhu5669 4 года назад +6

    Now they got a airport,

    • @iama2509
      @iama2509 2 года назад

      Why didn't Napoleon just fly away then huh?

    • @alexm566
      @alexm566 2 года назад

      @@iama2509 he didn't know how to fly, duh.

    • @EliasRoy
      @EliasRoy 2 года назад

      @@iama2509 🤦‍♂️. He died in 1821. The airplane was first invented by the Wright Brothers in 1903

  • @mrnarason
    @mrnarason 2 года назад

    Kind of sad really

  • @Zero8880
    @Zero8880 5 месяцев назад

    I used to ruuuule the world.....

  • @andindaalvin6436
    @andindaalvin6436 3 года назад +2

    This guy was so bad that every country in Europe declared war on him alone wow

    • @joshua6207
      @joshua6207 3 года назад +13

      He was the greastest military leader ever... it took the UK , Austria, Prussia, Russia to defeat him. He didnt even want to fight in Waterloo but the UK wanted king louis back on his throne unfortunately even though the french people preferred napoleon

    • @leftenanalim
      @leftenanalim 3 года назад +9

      Bad is not the right word. Powerful is

    • @curiosity-educationalchann1041
      @curiosity-educationalchann1041 2 года назад +3

      Badass...could say almost entire world where most of world territory unde colonial rule

    • @seferino
      @seferino 2 года назад

      Well, he was aggressive. Yes

  • @levilong5874
    @levilong5874 2 года назад +2

    He was poisoned

  • @sglightninggaming390
    @sglightninggaming390 4 года назад +3

    700 years later
    Nobody:
    British: hm island Conley time
    When they get there: him on his 5000$ pc on fortnite 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣