When discussing American military spending and defense industrial base policy in the context of great power competition with ...

David Burnett By contrast, the British historiography of the War of 1812 has generally consisted of short chapters squeezed between the grand sweeping narratives of the Napoleonic Wars.

It dates from the Napoleonic era and would ... like these would have made the prisoners of war some money, as they would have sold them to British military officers. This example, however, was ...

WELLINGTON’S Navy was the subject of the talk presented by Philip K Allan on Wednesday last week in Woodcote village hall. The Peninsular War (1808-1814) was the most protracted campaign of the whole ...

The French and British were at war once again: irreconcilable enemies ... but never again would the French challenge the might of the British navy. Napoleon no longer had a fleet he could count ...

War broke out between ... Nelson attacked and defeated the Napoleonic Navy in the Battle of Trafalgar. By 1806 the Act banning any slave trade between British merchants and foreign colonies ...

Britain's credibility as a debtor was fundamental to its ability to finance the fight against Revolutionary, and later Napoleonic ... British Army remained small throughout the war, the Royal Navy ...