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

Jonathan Freedland and guests make historical comparisons with current events ...

In May 1813, as Napoleon launches a desperate bid to save his empire following the disastrous defeat in Russia, the situation in Spain is particularly precarious. French forces have been weakened to ...

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the British Empire, with its naval might, ensured its dominance over crucial maritime ...

Before Nelson, no decisive blow was made against the French. But with Nelson came a series of crushing defeats, most notably at Aboukir Bay in 1798 and Trafalgar in 1805. All hopes of invasion went up ...

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

While Trump might consider withdrawing land forces from overseas bases, American naval and air forces are likely to be a ...

During the late 18th century, a flurry of social, political and economic changes offered many a new vision of personal ...

While Rothbard offers a focused economic analysis that situates the crisis within a broader theoretical framework, Browning gives readers a sense of what it ...

An alternative history is a sub-genre of fiction, in which the author writes about what might have happened if key events in history had not occurred or if key figures had not affected those events.

The Thirty Years War (1618-1648) began mainly as a religious civil war in the German-speaking lands, but it ended up as the ...

An historic Yorkshire pub which was once used as a recruiting post during the Napoleonic Wars has been put up for sale for £475,000.