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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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St Helena
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Island of volcanic origin in the south Atlantic, occupied from 1659 by the *East India Company as a port of call for their ships on the journey to and from the east. Ceded to the crown in 1834, it is now a British dependent territory. Its fame derives from the six years (1815–21) which *Napoleon spent there, living and dying in Longwood (a house which survives) as a prisoner of the British after his defeat at Waterloo.
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