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

In 1812 French forces in Spain were severely overstretched, as Napoleon withdrew the best troops for his invasion of Russia.

Ridley Scott is the king of the historical war epic, but what do his films say about how he views our history of armed ...

AD: Birth of Tiberius, second emperor of the Roman Empire 1272: Henry III dies aged 65. 1380: French King Charles ...

Perry Miniatures are back with some great new additions to their Napoleonic collection. They have added a selection of new ...

Research reveals that Britain’s earliest brass bands were established by military musicians returning from the Napoleonic Wars in the 1810s, debunking the idea that they were solely civilian and ...

Documenting my progress on collecting and painting 15/18mm Napoleonic miniatures. This started with challenging myself to try my hand at painting miniatures at a smaller scale, and to look at a ...

Many became involved in the Civil War. Musicians, nurses, spies, and vivandières all had their parts to play. Before the war ended, many soldiers also became prisoners of war. Drums and shrill fifes ...

For the first time, an Algerian author has won France’s top literary award, the Goncourt, with a searing account of his country’s 1990s civil war. Kamel Daoud’s novel Houris tells of Algeria ...

The US Army has been changing its requirements for EW acquisition and modernisation programmes based on lessons learned from the Ukraine war. Since its beginning, the conflict has shown how command, ...

The best pranks happen between Army and Navy, mostly because the Army-Navy Game is just a more storied game. It’s simply hard to compete with 124 years of burning, government-sponsored rivalry.