It dates from the Napoleonic era and would ... like these would have made the prisoners of war some money, as they would have sold them to British military officers. This example, however, was ...
For the first time, British Army regular troops have operated a ... The Army is now smaller than at any time since after the Napoleonic wars, and three major warships – including the only ...
Speaking at a conference on reserves, the colonel said: “In a war of scale ... third army. The British Army currently has about 72,000 troops, the smallest since the Napoleonic era, and ...
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 ...
The graves of a group of French prisoners from the Napoleonic Wars have been restored by a group of military history enthusiasts. The four men and one woman were buried at St John's Church in ...
The entire British Army would be destroyed ... trained troops in the army, which is the force’s smallest size since the 1700s Napoleonic era. Defence secretary John Healey has already warned ...