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 ...
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 ...
SOMEONE has remarked that French institutions ... and the Army's hold on the popular imagination was not destroyed even by its defeat in the Dreyfus Affair. The two World Wars, however, all ...
where his Anglo-Portuguese army met Marshal Marmont's French army in one of the most decisive clashes of the Peninsular War. What happens to Elise Stefanik’s New York House seat? Mike McCarthy ...
Auctioneer Nimrod Dix said: "This is a remarkable record of four brothers who all served during the Napoleonic wars against the ... that kept an 8,000-strong French army at bay during the Siege ...
According to Dr Eamonn O’Keeffe, regimental bands first experimented with all-brass arrangements in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. | ITV News Anglia ...
Historians have increasingly stressed the impact of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars on Britain and Ireland. Less attention ... Not only did musicians of the regular army and yeomanry ...
Conflict extended beyond Europe to include the colonies in what was known first as the 'French Revolutionary Wars' then the 'Napoleonic Wars'. In 1804 Napoleon, Emperor of France, made slavery ...