Volume I of The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars covers the international foreign political dimensions of the wars and the social, legal, political and economic structures of the Empire.

The four-day Battle of Leipzig would be the largest and bloodiest battle in European history before the First World War, and ...

What followed was one of the most harrowing and disastrous events in military history - the Retreat from Moscow - in which ..

Greg Clark, visiting professor at the LSE's department of economic history, who collected many ... so bad harvests in 1800 and 1801 and the Napoleonic Wars cutting off food imports, as well ...

Historians have increasingly stressed the impact of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars on Britain and Ireland. Less attention, however, has been paid to the legacies of martial mobilization ...

who is including the story in his History Hit podcast, called the uniform “an absolutely amazing discovery revealing one of the most exciting unknown stories from the Napoleonic Wars”.

Research reveals that Britain’s earliest brass bands were established by military musicians returning from the Napoleonic Wars in the 1810s, debunking the idea that they were solely civilian and ...

Britain’s brass bands are older than previously thought and were invented by soldiers from the Napoleonic Wars, a new study ... bands are embedded in British history and culture.

Britain’s brass bands are older than previously thought and were invented by soldiers from the Napoleonic Wars, a new study ... bands are embedded in British history and culture.

Britain’s brass bands are older than previously thought and were invented by soldiers from the Napoleonic Wars, a new study has found ... just how deeply brass bands are embedded in British history ...