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Once completed, the home would have had 32 rooms, 26 fireplaces, 115 doors and 96 columns. Only 9 of the 32 rooms were ever finished and those are all on the lower level/basement of the home. Having returned to England in 1678, Halley published Catalogus Stellarum Australium in 1679, which included details of 341 southern stars. These additions to present-day star maps earned him comparison to Tycho Brahe. Halley was subsequently awarded his Master's from Oxford and Fellowship of the Royal Society.
Plan of Longwood House in 1821 at the time of Napoleon’s death
He choose to present the house the way it was the day Napoleon died — minus the rats and dampness. Given that the emperor fought on land (engaging in 60 battles and losing only eight), that might seem far-fetched. Water provided an escape route from his catastrophic Egyptian campaign in 1799. He was exiled to another island, Elba, just six miles off the Italian coast, in 1814. That feat led to the Hundred Days campaign (actually, 111 days), during which he launched a reconstituted French Army on a European crusade that left nearly 100,000 men killed or wounded. After his loss at Waterloo, in June 1815, Napoleon was forced to flee France on the high seas.
Longwood House and Napoleon’s Journey to St Helena
His camp bed was moved there from the small stuffy bedroom on 28 April, shortly before his death and placed between the two windows as depicted in the drawing by Marchand. Cabinet des cartes et billard (Billiard or Map Room)A large well-lit room which was added to the house just before Napoleon moved in. Napoleon used it as a dining room until July 1816, then it became the “Map Room” when the billiard table was delivered. It was also in this room that his autopsy took place on 6 may 1821.
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Passing on with a groan, I entered a small chamber, with two windows looking towards the north. Between these windows are the marks of a fixed sofa; on that couch Napoleon died. An internal plan and one including the gardens, as they were in the time of Napoleon, are shown below. The circumstances surrounding Napoleon’s death remain controversial. There is still speculation as to whether he was poisoned or simply died of boredom. There is also evidence from an autopsy to suggest that he had ulcers, which affected his liver and intestines.
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The interior of the upper five stories were never completed. The property was deeded to the Pilgrimage Garden Club in 1970 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971. Longwood, also known as Nutt's Folly, was designed in 1859 by Philadelphia architect Samuel Sloan for cotton planter Dr. Haller Nutt and and his wife Julia. Construction began in 1860 but was halted in 1861 by rising tensions over the Civil War. Craftsmen, who were from the northeast, dropped their tools (where they still lay) and fled home.
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William Balcombe, employee of the East India Company and one-time family friend of the French emperor, put Napoleon up at Briars Pavilion when he first arrived on the island. However a few months later in December 1815, the emperor was moved to nearby Longwood House, a property said to have been particularly cold, uninviting and infested with rats. These first two golden months at the Briars were his favorite time. Once ensconced at Longwood House, he hosted no cotillions, no grand parties. The ship carrying Napoleon to the island arrived on October 15, 1815, but he was unable to disembark until the night of October 17. The French emperor mysteriously died while in British custody on the South Atlantic island of St Helena on May 5th 1821 at the age of 51.
Napoleon’s Exile on St Helena
As part of the restoration project, Dancoisne-Martineau has sent 32 pieces of furniture to France. Next year, Les Invalides, a French military complex that houses Napoleon’s grave in Paris, will display them for an exhibition marking the bicentenary of his exile, along with some luxury items that the former French emperor had taken with him. Dancoisne-Martineau started by renovating “the generals’ rooms” that housed Napoleon’s companions in exile. Razed in 1860 and shoddily rebuilt in 1933, the cost to repair the building totalled more than 1.4 million euros ($1.5 million).
It was completed before Napoleon’s death but he never occupied it. St. Helena is almost impossibly remote, a tiny island located more than 1,200 miles from the nearest landmass. This made it an extremely popular place of exile for difficult people. He lived out his final years here at Longwood House writing his memoirs, complaining of the damp, and bitching about the quality of his living conditions and keepers. The house had been selected specifically for its remoteness on this already incredibly remote island, because of Napoleon’s reputation for coercion and escape.
After Napoleon's death
In December, he moved into Longwood House where he peacefully spent the remainder of his days. Napoleon arrived on board the Northumberland on October 17, 1815, and spend his first night on the island in a small inn which no longer exists. The following day, he went to Longwood House, the house in which he was supposed to settle during his captivity. At the time, it was but a small place on an arid plateau the British had planned to transform to accommodate the Emperor and those who were close to him. While these transformations were being made, Napoleon settled in the green valley of the Briars, in a house next to William Balcombe's colonial residence.
Today he lies in a grand, colossal tomb in the heart of Paris, and near the Seine, where he longed to rest. At Plantation House, Governor Honan offered us tea but kindly indulged our preference for the island’s legendary coffee. We are not disappointed in the rich, velvety brew, the beans of which came from Yemeni plants first brought to the island in 1733. When Starbucks can get it, it sells for about $80 for an 8.8-ounce bag—perhaps not surprising, since Napoleon said the coffee was the only good thing about St. Helena.
Some five to ten families may live in each, but they are organized differently inside from those on Borneo. From front to back, such a house, called an "uma", regularly consists of an open platform serving as the main entrance place, followed by a covered gallery. The whole building is raised on short stilts about half a metre off the ground. The front platform is used for general activities while the covered gallery is the favorite place for the men to host guests, and where the men usually sleep.
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