We tell the story of this war through more than a dozen dramatic accounts from Spanish, French, British, German and Polish ...

In the Napoleonic Wars, Britain had a secret weapon. It wasn’t a new sort of ship or a better gun or different training regime. Britain did have those things. Her men were more disciplined, more ...

In fields are "lumps and bumps", Peterborough Archaeology says, as well as a memorial to 1,770 prisoners who died there. The ...

An analysis of the Napoleonic Wars, 1799-1815, and their impact on politics and society. The fourth number of the course code shows the level of the course. For example, in course 219206, the fourth ...

He had nearly 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 falter and then eventually fall back ...

The destruction brought by the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th Century transformed bare land into fields of blood red poppies, growing around the bodies of the fallen soldiers. In late 1914 ...

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 ...

Scotland's History Land and Votes The Battle of Waterloo The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page. You may wish to download the Adobe ...