Napoleon commissioned the sword, filled with classical motifs, after being elected as consul for life by the senate in 1802.

As the honorary French consul on the British island of St. Helena, he oversees Longwood House, Napoleon Bonaparte’s home in exile from 1815 to 1821, the last years of his life. Dancoisne ...

Colonel Edward Buckley Wynyard was the former military secretary to Sir Hudson Lowe, the Governor of St Helena. Napoleon was banished to the remote south Atlantic outpost in 1815 after his ...

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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 ...