In the Shadow of Saint HelenaNow more than two hundred years after the meeting of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and the Balcombes on the Island of Saint Helena, and more than two hundred years after Surgeon David Reid R. N. participated in three major Napoleonic War Sea Battles, and together with his sons and daughters, settled in Australia, starting the grazing and wool industry in Australia, the story still provides a background to the lives of descendants of William Balcombe and