As museums around the world celebrate the 250th birthday of JMW Turner, it's time to reappraise his beloved and celebrated ...

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 ...

Various defense professionals have already argued that Great Britain's participation in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic ... British Army remained small throughout the war, the Royal Navy ...

Chief of the defence staff warns it will take up to three years for British armed forces to start growing again ...

Many Hydriot merchants became wealthy running the British blockade of French ports during the Napoleonic ... their War of Independence in 1821, Hydra emerged as a leading naval power.

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 ...