In 1809, as Napoleon fought the Austrians at Wagram, the war in Spain and Portugal continued to rage. The French had ...

Napoleon Bonaparte hoped to follow up his brilliant victories over Austria and Prussia with another decisive victory over the ...

An analysis of the Napoleonic Wars, 1799-1815, and their impact on politics and society. The fourth number of the course code shows the level of the course. For example, in course 219206, the fourth ...

No disease man can ever spread will be as deadly as war. In the 21st century, an age in which even the most destitute on the ...

This carving, made from animal bones, is unusual. It dates from the Napoleonic era and would have been made by a French prisoner of war based at a camp near Peterborough at the end of the ...

The graves of 101 soldiers who fought in Napoleonic wars have been identified in St Saviour's churchyard The graves of more than 100 soldiers who fought in the Napoleonic wars have been found in a ...

The destruction brought by the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th Century transformed bare land into fields of blood red poppies, growing around the bodies of the fallen soldiers. In late 1914 ...

Between the outbreak of the French Revolution, 1789, and the Treaty of Vienna, 1815, Europe’s national economies were afflicted by 26 years of intensified mercantilist warfare. Thanks to generous ...

A uniform used by a local sailor to trick his way out of prison during the Napoleonic Wars has gone on display at the National Maritime Museum in London. Charles Hare, from Lincolnshire ...