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

In 1812 Napoleon invaded Russia with the largest army Europe had ever seen. As it advanced, the Russian army retreated, and by September Napoleon's army had marched 470 miles into the depths of Russia ...

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 ...

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

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”.

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.