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In 1510 Lopes, a minor nobleman and soldier, accompanied the Portuguese governor of India, Afonso de Albuquerque, on his conquest of Goa on the west coast of India. Shortly after its conquest, Albuquerque set sail to conquer Malacca in Malaysia, leaving Lopes behind as part of the garrison, with orders to keep the peace and rule over the local population.
In March 1818, the Balcombes left St Helena and went back to England. St Helena Governor Hudson Lowe disapproved of the friendship between the Balcombes and Napoleon, suspecting them of smuggling secret messages out of Longwood House. [1] In May 1822, Betsy Balcombe married Edward Abell and had a daughter, but the marriage soon failed. [1]
St. Helena is a general law city which lacks its own charter. It operates under a council–manager form of government. [3] In the California State Legislature, St. Helena is in the 3rd Senate District, represented by Democrat Christopher Cabaldon, [25] and in the 4th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Cecilia Aguiar-Curry. [26]
João da Nova, a Galician navigator serving the Portuguese Empire, was the first person to sight Saint Helena.. According to long-established tradition, the island was sighted on 21 May 1502 by the four ships of the 3rd Portuguese Armada, commanded by João da Nova, a Galician navigator in the service of Portugal, during his return voyage to Lisbon, who named it Santa Helena after Saint Helena ...
Designed by the local engineer J. W. Hoar, the Saint Helena Railway Company built a two-car inclined plane, 924 feet (281.6 m)-long, in 1829 to carry cargo between Jamestown and the fort. The cars rode on a pair of iron-plated fir rails, laid on wooden sleepers anchored into the rock of the valley wall, that were separated by a staircase of 700 ...
Local Indigenous people historically used the warm mineral springs. [5] Later, it became part of a Mexican Land Grant as a Rancho of California. The springs were later discovered by Dr. Edward Bale in 1848 who then opened a resort in 1852, [6] although another account by the St. Helena Historical Society states that the springs were discovered by John York. [7]
Mount Saint Helena (Wappo: Kanamota, "Human Mountain") [4] is a peak in the Mayacamas Mountains with flanks in Napa, Sonoma, and Lake counties of California. Composed of uplifted volcanic rocks from the Clear Lake Volcanic Field , it is one of the few mountains in the San Francisco Bay Area to receive any snowfall during the winter.
St. Helena Island is an epicenter of Gullah Geechee culture and history and also home to the Penn Center, formerly the Penn School, one of the nation’s first schools for formerly enslaved people.