Napoleon's rivalry with Britain led to an ill-fated intervention in Portugal and Spain, that sparked a nationalist revolt ...

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 ...

At that time, the British Army had around 40,000 soldiers. But this total was rapidly increased in order to fight the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. This Autumn, the Prime Minister ...

Advance elements of the Prussian army were beginning ... 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 ...

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 ...

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

This also shines a light on the steamboat age in New Orleans. On January 8, 2025, the battle reached its 210th anniversary.

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 ...