In 1815 Napoleon fled back to France from the Mediterranean island of Elba, but suffered a crushing defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, ending the Hundred Days And Was exiled again.
Considering that the first exile, The island of Elba, was too close to the European continent, it was feared that Napoleon would return to the continent again, posing a threat to the European countries. So the Coalition learned its lesson, this time to exile Napoleon to a place far from the European continent, so that he could never return to Europe. At this time, st. Helena, a colony of Britain thousands of miles away, came into view of Britain and became an excellent place to exile Napoleon.
Why? Look at the picture and speak ——)
St. Helena is only 121 square kilometers, and even in the 21st century, the population is only more than 5,000. Located in the South Pacific Ocean, it is about 2,000 kilometers away from the African continent, 3,400 kilometers away from the east coast of South America, and more than 10,000 kilometers away from the European continent.
May 21, 1502 (the Catholic calendar is The Day of St. Helena), was discovered by the Portuguese navigator Castellana, but although discovered, the island remained unknown to the world for nearly 100 years until the arrival of the English navigator Captain Gavindicht in 1588. For the first 300 years of its discovery, the small island had no reputation and merely served as a port of call for replenishment on European routes to and from the East Indies. However, after 1815, it was familiar to the world.
The island also has some connection to Chinese, and we all know a famous quote from Napoleon: "China is a sleeping lion, and when it wakes up, the whole world will shake." Thank God for keeping him asleep!" This is exactly what he said during his exile to this isolated island. After napoleon was released on the island, the European countries were still uneasy, so the British sent heavy troops to monitor Napoleon's every move, and after a few years Napoleon saw that no one came to help, and gradually lost his ambition to escape.
But the connection does not stop there, and it is incredible that there are 23 Chinese serving Napoleon on this island. It turned out that during the Period when the British used St. Helena As a supply port, because the island had no residents, it sold some laborers from Africa, Southeast Asia and other places to come to the island as an effort to colonize and develop.
According to statistics, between 1805 and 1821, about 1500 Chinese were trafficked to the island, most of whom were recruited after Napoleon was exiled here. However, due to the harsh conditions, the Chinese workers died one after another, and by 1935 there were still about 600 Chinese workers left, accounting for about one-seventh of the total population, and a considerable number of the islanders are still descendants of the Chinese workers.
Napoleon died on the island of St. Helena on 5 May 1821, and in 1840, King Louis Philippe of Orléans of France sent his son to receive Napoleon's coffin and was buried in the Old and Disabled Soldiers' Retirement House on the Banks of the Seine in Paris (Paris Honorary Military Academy).
Since the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, there have been fewer and fewer ships needing to resupply through St. Helena, and since then there has been nothing major that has attracted the attention of the world.
But in 2015, another thing that attracted attention was that a job advertisement was issued on a small island hundreds of kilometers from St. Helena, which turned out to be a door-to-door son-in-law, which was designated as a Saint Helena island in 1938 - Tristan da Cunha. Due to the small size of the group, they all wanted to recruit young men and women who had originally traveled to the island, but they did not know whether anyone had gone.