Historical Question

[Licou]

Ok, sorry for my ignorance, but I would wish to know where is the Saibte-Helene Island situated?(the one where Bonaparte was exiled)

Thanks you.

 

[unmerged(3408)]

Yes

 

[Orm]

South Atlantic.

 

[unmerged(4217)]

Originally posted by Petrus
Yes

 

[unmerged(5415)]

He probably is, since it doesn't sounds like the isle of Elba...

Saint-Helena Island is basically located in the middle of nowhere.

(namely, in the center of the southern atlantic ocean, about 1500km West of Angola - departing from the south of that country, go straight west for all those kilometers and you will find the isle).

I is rather obvious the british _didn't_ wanted that Napoleon repeated his earlier escape from Elba...


Regards,
Keoland

 

[hjarg]

Look on EU map, it's there. South Atlantic. Quite hard to find- the bugger is just too damn small.

 

[Licou]

Yeah, but it was a smooth "prison", I mean, he was bitching at his guards

 

[Vulture]

Elba was next to Italy right? No wonder he escaped from there
Escaping from St Helena OTOH would have been quite difficult

 

[unmerged(4783)]

I always try to colonize St. Helena (as a Russian).

It's a convenient point for staging on my way to S. Africa.

 

[Vulture]

Well I tend to colonize it with every nation I play
Other preferred refuel stations are Isle Royale, Socotra, MacQuarie, the Hawaiian islands & Tahiti... but let's not make this a 'preferred to-colonize province'

 

[Licou]

What is OTOH mean?

 

[unmerged(4217)]

On the other hand.

 

[Licou]

Well thank you, and since we are talking about that, what is AFAIK (or something like that) mean?

 

[Vulture]

AFAIK = as far as I know

 

[Vulture]

Check the sticky EU abbreviations thread in the FAQ forum... It contains loads of these abbreviations

 

[Licou]

Hmmmm... great, now I can use 2 more abreviation!!! Isn't that great?

 

[Licou]

I sure will