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An American war re-enactor earned the job of Napoleon for the 210th anniversary of the battle, despite his accent.
The British Army's size may cripple its ability to support NATO or fight a major war, some experts fear. It's the smallest it's been since the 1800s.
The number British Army troops has fallen below 73,000 for the first time since the Napoleonic era. Official government figures show there are now just 72,510 full-time, trained soldiers ready for ...
The Brigade Napoleon is returning to Old Bedford Village this weekend. French, British, Scottish, and Prussian military units ...
Napoleon and the Napoleonic Wars loomed large in the minds of British people of the period and beyond. Cartoonists were obsessed with him. He is in the background of Jane Austen's novels.
Reviews Napoleon Review: British Filmmaker Makes Laughing Stock of French Emperor Ridley Scott and Joaquin Phoenix's Napoleon is the unexpected comedy delight of the holiday season, as the pair ...
The Army is at its smallest since the Napoleonic Wars, with around 73,000 troops. Around £51.6 million is predicted to be forked out on recruitment ads across the Armed Forces this financial year ...
Despite deliberate cuts which have made it the smallest since the Napoleonic wars, the British Army suffered a stark shortfall in recruitment last year, with just 6.720 enlistments, 63% of its ...
A medal Napoleon gave to British scientist Humphry Davy while France and Britain were at war was thrown away by Davy's widow, a relative has said. Jane Davy threw her husband's medal into the sea near ...