Back then, the British Army had around 40,000 soldiers but was rapidly increased to fight the French Revolutionary and ...
The British victory at Waterloo in 1815 ... which was thought to house 7,000 French soldiers captured during the Napoleonic War.
In 1809, as Napoleon fought the Austrians at Wagram, the war in Spain and Portugal continued to rage. The French had inflicted several heavy defeats on Spanish field armies, but now they faced a ...
At the time, the Napoleonic wars were raging across Europe ... "We were refugees, American loyalists, British soldiers, First Nations, a mixed bag of people who realized they had a common land ...
Napoleon’s soldiers charged. The British counterattacked ... The first time in the whole history of the Napoleonic wars the Guard was seen to falter and then eventually fall back, shouting ...
War broke out between ... Nelson attacked and defeated the Napoleonic Navy in the Battle of Trafalgar. By 1806 the Act banning any slave trade between British merchants and foreign colonies ...