Two helmets belonging to World War Two British soldiers massacred by the SS in May 1940 have been discovered and donated to ...

Photos play an important role in understanding history. They offer visual evidence of both pivotal events and everyday life that written records alone sometimes cannot fully convey. Through images, we ...

This set gives you Line Infantry for battling in Spain and Portugal against the French. If you're a fan of Sharpe then you might want to scoop these up and battle under Sir Arthur Wellesley. They are ...

Thus we find ourselves in, say, the month of May, diving abruptly from the American Civil War to Vietnam, moving over to the two world wars, and then cutting back to the Napoleonic Wars ... generals ...

The Napoleonic, Crimean and Boer Wars, the Indian campaigns followed by the First World War and ensuing major 20 th century British armed conflicts (18 ... Accordingly, an infantry medal is scarcer ...

Historians have increasingly stressed the impact of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars ... Moreover, the British brass band, far from being a civilian creation, was pioneered by the military ...

the answer might just be the invention of a British musical tradition. While Abba's hit song 'Waterloo' might be the most famous musical association with the Napoleonic Wars - it might not be a ...

Back then, the British Army had around 40,000 soldiers but was rapidly increased to fight the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Answering a question from Labour MP Emma Lewell-Buck ...

but now they faced a popular insurgency as well as a well-trained Anglo-Portuguese army led by British general Lord Wellington. The Peninsular War, as it became known, became Napoleon's 'bleeding ...

Britain’s brass bands are older than previously thought and were invented by soldiers from the Napoleonic Wars, a new study has found. The findings challenge the widely held belief that brass ...