Napoleon on St. Helena keeps Fire of Learning company between uploads
A 47-day-old look at the emperor's final exile, built on memoirs by Las Cases and Betsy Balcombe, is the channel's busiest video while nothing new went up.
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What Did Napoleon Do During Exile?
Napoleon spent his last years on a speck of rock in the South Atlantic, and seven weeks after Fire of Learning told that story, it is still the video people are choosing. "What Did Napoleon Do During Exile?" has passed 300,000 views, and no other video on the channel is moving as quickly right now.
It is a quieter kind of Napoleon film: no Austerlitz, no Waterloo, just the house at Longwood, the Briars pavilion and the long afternoons of a man with nowhere left to march. The source list leans on people who were there, including the memoir of the Comte de Las Cases, who took down the emperor's conversations, and the recollections of Betsy Balcombe, the English girl whose family first hosted him on the island. The description also points to his English lessons and to a defense of Hudson Lowe, the governor history usually casts as the jailer.
No new videos went up this week, and the channel ran at roughly half its usual daily pace, with the subscriber count holding still. Beside the emperor, a science documentary on why we dream, more than a year old and past a million views, keeps drawing a steady crowd. So does a Campfire episode on the legendary creatures of France, from the Ankou to the Beast of Gévaudan.
Among the history and education channels nearby in size, hoser is the one running well above its usual pace, while Fire of Learning sits in the calmer half of the group.
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In which year did Napoleon die on St. Helena?
Napoleon died at Longwood House on St. Helena on May 5, 1821.
