If this were to gain traction, the UK is in a strong position to lead and I think we’d want to,’ says senior Army source ...

Scope note The Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) involved Napoleon's French Empire and a shifting set of European allies and opposing coalitions. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French ...

On Jan. 8, we celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans, which ended the War of 1812 with the British. That war ...

In March 2025 the major exhibition Pirates will open at the National Maritime Museum (NMM), tracing the changing depictions ...

Previous to the war luxury and indulgence appeared to have reached a point the most extravagant. Young men and elderly men seemed to ?? with one another in providing means of ?? self-gratification.

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 ...

In pictures: Israel strikes hundreds of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions ...

A Cambridge-educated British Army Officer Cadet 'forcefully' sexually assaulted two female trainees on a Sandhurst training course, a court martial heard. Officer Cadet Max Gibbins was accused of ...

A British Army Officer Cadet 'forcefully' sexually assaulted two female trainees while sharing a bed with them on a Sandhurst training course. Officer cadet Max Gibbins, who is Cambridge ...

IN 1810, AT the height of the Napoleonic Wars, the Royal Navy had almost 150,000 seamen and Marines ... but there would have been no Empire without it. In this second volume of his British naval ...