Advance elements of the Prussian army were beginning to reach the battlefield. Napoleon would have to break Wellington’s center at once. The French cavalry ... On June 22, 1815 — four days ...

Please contact Liverpool University Press for availability about this product Civilians and War in Europe 1618–1815 examines the relationship ... the development of modern 'total' war with the French ...

Chris Van Houts/Waterloo Uncovered Skeletons from the Napoleonic wars are not often found The Battle of Waterloo, fought on 18 June 1815, marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars. A French army under ...

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 Napoleonic Wars in 1815. The design features Spinning ...

Curators say the dark green uniform of the French Imperial Customs Service was ... “If taken in a military habit, bearing arms or false papers, instant death awaits me by the decrees of ...

By Stephen Beech via SWNS Britain’s brass bands weren't all originally from the north - with many formed "down south" by soldiers returning from the Napoleonic Wars, reveals new research. The study, ...

More than 50 etchings from soldiers have been discovered on an English castle door in an “astonishing discovery,” including ...

Military musicians returning from the Napoleonic wars established Britain's first brass bands earlier than previously thought ...

High Clandon Estate is holding the tasting contest - named after the battle that saw Napoleon’s French army defeated by Lord Wellington in 1815 - on Saturday. Sybilla Tindale, co-owner of the ...

The UK is still cutting: A 2023 Defence Command Paper states that the British army will be reduced to 73,000 soldiers by 2025 — the lowest level since the Napoleonic wars of 1803–1815.

From Algiers to Baghdad Marnia Lazreg Torture and the Twilight of Empire looks at the intimate relationship between torture and colonial domination through a close examination of the French army's ...

Then, on February 26, 1815, he slipped off of Elba with a handful ... Once ashore, only the King’s army would stand between Napoleon and Paris. Six days after landing in France, he confronted ...