In March this year, we published an account of the struggle for the Hougoumont farm complex during the Battle of Waterloo. It…
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Click here to read about the British Army at Inkerman. The saying ‘the bayonet is a wise man, the bullet a fool’…
Click here to read about the Russian Army at Inkerman. Diarists suggest that most of the casualties at Inkerman were caused by…
In the early 1960s, Michael Caine was regularly playing small character parts in television dramas and British movies. With his cockney accent…
The reasons Britain and the United States went to war in 1812 are diverse. Indeed, different factions within each country had different…
Most people are familiar with the tumultuous events of England in 1066, but how much do you know about ‘the other Norman…
Tickets to English Heritage's re-enactment of the Battle of Hastings this weekend are sold out, but here are 10 alternative ways to…
Who? The one next to Lenin? Well, he was. Until Joseph Stalin had him erased from the photograph (below). But, despite Stalin’s…
