In 1798, less than a decade before Nelson’s death at the Battle of Trafalgar, a British victory and a key moment in
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A new hull walkway, opened in August of this year, allows enthusiasts to descend into the base of the ship’s dry dock
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When was Britain’s finest hour? For most readers the answer is easy: the summer of 1940, when Britain stood alone in defiance
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All great military tacticians plan their campaigns carefully, but only very rarely do those plans survive. Now a sketch showing Admiral Lord
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‘Waterloo’ – and especially variations of the phrase ‘to meet one’s Waterloo’ – have come to signify a firm, conclusive end to
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The 1824 Vagrancy Act – which criminalises rough sleeping – has become the subject of public debate after Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the UK’s Labour Party,
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War and violence are the last things one would associate with that 19th-century doyenne of English literature, Jane Austen. Ambles in the
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There were around 50 hospital staff in Brussels before Waterloo, some of whom had recently been on campaign elsewhere in the Low
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The Grande Armée was something new. ‘We used to have the Army of Italy, of the Rhine, of Holland,’ explained Napoleon himself.
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In 1809, a 5ft 5in tall, brown-haired Irishman called John Rowland enlisted in the 95th Regiment of Foot, already by then a sharpshooting Rifle
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