Recollections of Napoleon at St. Helena: The Remarkable Story of a Fallen Emperor and a Teenage Girl

by Betsy Balcombe

Book Overview

The girl and the monarch

Lucia Elizabeth (Betsy) Balcombe was born in 1802, the second child of William Balcombe, an official of the Honourable East India Company, and his wife Jane, who were living with their family in a cottage called The Briars, on the remote Atlantic Ocean island of St. Helena. Betsy and her older sister were educated in England, but in 1814 they returned to St Helena to rejoin their parents and younger brothers. After...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782820450
• ISBN13: 9781782820451
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Leonaur Ltd
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"