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Includes Galápagos Islands, Hawaii, and Australia subcontinent, ( plus St. Helena Island, etc.
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After his final defeat, Napoleon was treated as a general by the British authorities during his second exile to Atlantic Isle of St. Helena.
His title was a matter of dispute with the governor of St Helena, who insisted on addressing him as " General Bonaparte ", despite the " historical reality that he had been an emperor " and therefore retained the title.
It has also been suggested that the island may not have been discovered until 30 July 1503 by a squadron under the command of Estêvão da Gama and that da Nova actually discovered Tristan da Cunha on the feast day of St Helena.
St Helena was much less frequently visited by Asia-bound ships, the northern trade winds taking ships towards the South American continent rather than the island.
Also, Lopo Homem-Reineis published the " Atlas Universal " about 1519 which clearly showed the locations of St Helena and Ascension.
Nevertheless, St Helena certainly once had a rich and dense inland forest.
Bermudez, the Patriarch of Abyssinia landed at St Helena in 1557 on a voyage to Portugal, remaining on the island for a year.
Three Japanese ambassadors on an embassy to the Pope also visited St Helena in 1583.
Once St Helena ’ s location was more widely known, English ships of war began to lie in wait in the area to attack Portuguese India carracks on their way home.
As a result, in 1592 Philip II of Spain and I of Portugal ( 1527 – 1598 ) ordered the annual fleet returning from Goa on no account to touch at St Helena.
The Dutch Republic formally made claim to St Helena in 1633, although there is no evidence that they ever occupied, colonised or fortified it.
' A View of the Town and Island of St Helena in the Atlantic Ocean belonging to the English East India Company ', engraving c. 1790
By 1649, the East India Company ordered all homeward-bound vessels to wait for one another at St Helena and in 1656 onward the Company petitioned the government to send a man-of-war to convoy the fleet home from there.
Having been granted a charter to govern the island by the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth Oliver Cromwell in 1657, the following year the Company decided to fortify and colonise St Helena with planters.
A fleet commanded by Captain John Dutton ( first governor, 1659 – 1661 ) in the Marmaduke arrived at St Helena in 1659.
It is from this date that St Helena claims to be Britain ’ s second oldest colony ( after Bermuda ).
The East India Company immediately sought a Royal Charter, possibly to give their occupation of St Helena legitimacy.
Finding that the cape was not the ideal harbour they originally envisaged, the Dutch East India Company launched an armed invasion of St Helena from the Cape colony over Christmas 1672.
This he used to locate an East India Company flotilla sent to reinforce St Helena with fresh troops.
Acknowledging that St Helena was a place where there was no trade, the Company was permitted to send from England any provisions free of Customs and to convey as many settlers as required.
Against the background of this erosion, several years of drought and the general dependency of St Helena, in 1715 governor Isaac Pyke ( 1714 – 1719 ) made the serious suggestion to the Company that appreciable savings could be made by moving the population to Mauritius, evacuated by the French in 1710.
William Dampier called into St Helena in 1691 at the end of his first of three circumnavigations of the world and stated Jamestown comprised 20 – 30 small houses built with rough stones furnished with mean furniture.
St Helena was then transferred to this new United East India Company.

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File: Albrecht Dürer 012. jpg | St Jerome in the Wilderness, 1495, oil on panel, National Gallery, London
The reigning National League Champions are the St. Louis Cardinals.
Mary, Queen of Scots | Mary Stuart's personal breviary, which she took with her to the scaffold, is preserved in the National Library of Russia of St. Petersburg
St. Ann is a member of the National Catholic Education Association.
Prominent Latino cultural attractions found here include Humboldt Park's Institute of Puerto Rican Arts and Puerto Rican Day Parade, as well as the National Museum of Mexican Art and St. Adalbert's Church in Pilsen.
One of the largest of these paintings is a view of St. Bartholomew's Church at Lawrie Park Avenue, commonly known as The Avenue, Sydenham, in the collection of the London National Gallery.
They won the National League pennant and an exhibition World Series, defeating the American Association champion St. Louis Browns, ten games to five.
Shaw's home, now called Shaw's Corner, in the small village of Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire is a National Trust property, open to the public.
There are several schools in Glasnevin, including Lindsay Road National School, Glasnevin National School, an " Educate Together " national school, St Vincent's ( Christian Brothers ) School, St Columba's Convent School, Scoil Chaitríona and St Mary's Secondary School.
The Astros defeated Braves 3-2 in the Division Series, but would lose the National League Championship Series to the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games.
Scene from an altar of St. Hedwig of Silesia, Wrocław | Breslau around 1430, restored in 1929, National Museum, Warsaw | National Museum Warsaw
The house and grounds in Compton where St. Laurent was born were designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1973.
Among his famous drawings are the Vitruvian Man, a study of the proportions of the human body, the Head of an Angel, for The Virgin of the Rocks in the Louvre, a botanical study of Star of Bethlehem and a large drawing ( 160 × 100 cm ) in black chalk on coloured paper of The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist in the National Gallery, London.
They won the National League Division Series in five games over the Arizona Diamondbacks, but lost to the eventual World Series champions St. Louis Cardinals in six games during the NLCS.
The Brewers lost 9 games in a row in May and never fully recovered, finishing the season 77 – 85, which was good for 3rd place in the National League Central division, behind the Cincinnati Reds and the St. Louis Cardinals.
While listing the Coral Court Motel near St. Louis, Missouri, on the National Register of Historic Places failed to prevent a 1995 demolition, one of the cabins survives as part of an exhibit at the Museum of Transportation after being painstakingly dismantled by volunteers for relocation.
In the previous decade the Mets made one playoff appearance after the 2000 season ; it was in 2006 when they came within one game of the World Series, losing to the eventual World Champion St. Louis Cardinals in Game 7 of the 2006 National League Championship Series.
Also the former captain of the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League, currently retired.

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