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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This map explains the movements of the French, British, and Prussian forces from the 15 to the 18 June, 1815. Napoleon seized
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The Battle of Waterloo raged all day, but in most sectors, there were lulls in the fighting. Only at Hougoumont was the
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The lines of the Torres Vedras were lines of forts secretly built by the British from around September 1809-1812 to protect Lisbon
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There can have been few sights as frightful as the dull gaze of the 32 pounders of a ship’s broadside as it
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The Diehards: The 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot (now part of The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment) Nothing could exceed the conduct and
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The Royal Scots Greys: The regiment that caught the French Eagle. The image of the Scots Greys charging out of the picture
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