As 1805 began, Napoleon was planning to cross the English Channel and invade Great Britain with 2000 ships and 200,000 soldiers. The French and British were at war once again: irreconcilable ...

a venerable but little-known British bank stands ready to back the UK's Armed Forces – as it has done since the Napoleonic wars. Holt's Military Banking, based in Farnborough, Hampshire ...

What has happened to the redcoats that defeated Napoleon and helped win an empire that stretched across a quarter of the Earth's surface? The British Army has shrunk to its lowest level since the ...

The British Army currently has 72,510 full-time troops – its smallest size since the Napoleonic era ... also criticised how difficult it was to recruit reserves, describing it as a “Byzantine ...