The first time in the whole history of the Napoleonic wars the Guard ... t believe he could win the campaign. Waterloo could have been won, but the war would have been lost anyway.

It wasn’t just human bones: An estimated 500,000 to 1 million horses died at Waterloo and in other battles of the Napoleonic Wars, and their remains were plundered, too. In the 1830s ...

There are more books with “Napoleon” in their titles than there have been days since the death of the French emperor and general in 1821. So reports Andrew Roberts in his magisterial biography ...

a venerable but little-known British bank stands ready to back the UK's Armed Forces – as it has done since the Napoleonic wars. Holt's Military Banking, based in Farnborough, Hampshire ...

and political demonstrations in the decades after Waterloo, and were not confined to northern English industrial towns. He ...

The British victory at Waterloo in 1815 left Britain the dominant ... which was thought to house 7,000 French soldiers captured during the Napoleonic War.

A talk on Essex and the Napoleonic Wars will be held on March 28 in Harwich. The Harwich Society's monthly talks are nearing their end, and this month's talk will focus on a subject close to the ...

Napoleonic military historian John White explains: When men enlisted in the army during the Napoleonic wars, they would know ... Portugal and in Ostend in the Waterloo campaign.

For months after Napoleon's abdication, the Allies had been at odds with one another as they met in Vienna to hammer out an agreement to determine the shape of post-war Europe. Now Great Britain ...

THE Harwich Society’s winter programme of monthly talks is nearing its end, with the next being about Harwich’s involvement in the ...