For a man of movement and momentum, life after Lowe on St. Helena was terrible. Las Cases called him “le moderne Prométhée sur son roc”—the modern Prometheus on his rock. Napoleon suffered ...

KAUFFMANN: No one escapes from St. Helena. This far-away island, this isolated piece of rock, beaten by the winds, sinister. When Napoleon sees this fortress for the first time, he understands ...

The rest of the committee is made up mostly of historians specializing in Napoleon’s life, with some having St Helena experience such as the aforementioned Michael Binyon, and finally the ...