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In the summer of 1815, the gruelling Battle of Waterloo raged. It would be the conflict that would finally put an end to the ...
As the nation marks the 80th anniversary of VE Day next month, Churchill's descendants will take part in a service alongside the Royal Family in Westminster Abbey.
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"Come general, the affair is over, we have lost the day," Napoleon told one of his officers. "Let us be off." The day was June 18, 1815. By about 8 p.m., the emperor of France knew he had been ...
What is David Cartwright's most expensive painting? Since 2011 the record price for this artist at auction is 3,062 USD for Uxbridge's Charge, Battle of Waterloo 1815, sold at Anthemion Auctions in ...
The operator initially ran services to and from London Waterloo before switching to St Pancras when this was extensively refurbished in 2007. Eurostar now runs from St Pancras to Lille non-stop ...
As we look forward to celebrating the bicentennial of the “Star-Spangled Banner” by Francis Scott Key, I have to admit, with deep shame and embarrassment, that until I left England and went to ...
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“Waterloo” topped charts across Europe – and even made No.6 in the US – and ABBA were soon unstoppable. On that night in Brighton, the ABBA Eurovision performance won the first major ...
American Civil War, Battle of Shiloh, Confederate Charge Vintage engraving of the Battle of Shiloh also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the ...
In his poem ‘The Eve of Waterloo’ (part of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage), the poet fixes on a ball given in Brussels on 15 June 1815 by the Duchess of Richmond at which many of the Allied commanders in ...