To which island was Napoleon exiled after his defeat at Waterloo?

Napoleon was exiled to the island of Saint Helena after his defeat at Waterloo and his second abdication in 1815. Britain chose the remote South Atlantic island to prevent him from escaping and returning to European politics.

After abdicating on 22 June, Napoleon reached the Atlantic coast and hoped to sail to the United States. A British naval blockade prevented that plan. He surrendered aboard HMS Bellerophon in July, was taken to England, and was then transferred to HMS Northumberland for the voyage to Saint Helena.

Napoleon arrived near the island in October 1815 and eventually lived at Longwood House, a residence on the island’s central plateau. Saint Helena was thousands of kilometres from Europe, surrounded by open ocean and easy for British authorities to monitor. Its isolation made it a far more secure prison than Elba, where Napoleon had escaped the previous year.

He remained there until his death on 5 May 1821, aged 51. His remains were later returned to France in 1840 and placed at Les Invalides in Paris.