Nelson had sought the battle for two years, and he knew full well what the outcome would be.…
In May 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte died on the remote island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, where he had been exiled…
In 1798, less than a decade before Nelson’s death at the Battle of Trafalgar, a British victory and a key moment in…
A new hull walkway, opened in August of this year, allows enthusiasts to descend into the base of the ship’s dry dock…
When was Britain’s finest hour? For most readers the answer is easy: the summer of 1940, when Britain stood alone in defiance…
All great military tacticians plan their campaigns carefully, but only very rarely do those plans survive. Now a sketch showing Admiral Lord…
‘Waterloo’ – and especially variations of the phrase ‘to meet one’s Waterloo’ – have come to signify a firm, conclusive end to…
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,…
War and violence are the last things one would associate with that 19th-century doyenne of English literature, Jane Austen. Ambles in the…
There were around 50 hospital staff in Brussels before Waterloo, some of whom had recently been on campaign elsewhere in the Low…