The Emperor Napoleon has an important connection with Cairns, and there are some other interesting ones he has with Australia too. In this programme I’m going to tell you about both, and where you can go and see the large, unmissable relic from Napoleon in Cairns.

Tag words: Emperor Napoleon; Boney; Betsy Balcombe; Elba; Treaty of Fontainbleau; Louis XVIII; Colonel Neil Campbell; Lord Castlereagh; Charles Dickens; David Copperfield; Benjamin Franklin; For the want of a nail the shoe was lost; Louis XVI; French Revolution; Congress of Vienna; St Helena; l’Inconstant; HMS Partridge; Golfe-Juan; Marshal Ney; bring Napoleon back to Paris in a cage; Grenoble; Vive l’Empereur; Waterloo; HMS Swiftsure; Great Barrier Reef; Ben Cropp; HMAS Cairns; William Balcombe; Cinques Bouteille; Sir Hudson Lowe;