Back then, the British Army had around 40,000 soldiers but was rapidly increased to fight the French Revolutionary and ...

It dates from the Napoleonic era and would ... these would have made the prisoners of war some money, as they would have sold them to British military officers. This example, however, was given ...

The graves of 101 soldiers who fought in Napoleonic ... wars saw the French empire, led by Napoleon I, fight European powers in a series of battles beginning in 1803. Napoleon was defeated by the ...

but now they faced a popular insurgency as well as a well-trained Anglo-Portuguese army led by British general Lord Wellington. The Peninsular War, as it became known, became Napoleon's 'bleeding ...

Military chiefs insist ‘UK is in a strong position’ but no ‘deep military planning’ had yet taken place on the subject ...

A uniform used by a local sailor to trick his way out of prison during the Napoleonic ... Customs officers were deployed widely across Napoleon’s Empire to enforce an embargo on British trade ...

The destruction brought by the Napoleonic wars of the ... memorial to those who died in World War One and later conflicts. It was adopted by The Royal British Legion as the symbol for their ...

One is the need for imagination. Royal William Yard had plenty counting against it when the (later abolished) regional development authority started to restore its dilapidated Grade I and II listed ...

One officer heard him say ... He had nearly broken through the British line, but it was too late. The first time in the whole history of the Napoleonic wars the Guard was seen to falter and ...