The British Army would be destroyed in “six months to a year” if it had to fight Russia, the veterans minister has warned.
The war medals ... during the Napoleonic wars against the French. " The family medals were handed to brothers Archibald, Murdoch, John and Hector who were all officers in the British Army.
This is the fifth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia — to spend some time ...
It dates from the Napoleonic era and would have ... Objects like these would have made the prisoners of war some money, as they would have sold them to British military officers.
Volume I of The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars covers the international foreign political dimensions of the wars and the social, legal, political and economic structures of the Empire.
The British Royal Navy of the French Wars (1793–1815) is an enduring national symbol, but we often overlook the tens of thousands of foreign seamen who contributed to its operations. Foreign Jack Tars ...