A series of hilltop forts built to defend England during the Napoleonic Wars are being preserved to ensure their legacy can ...

Generations of Germans believe Frederick the Great brought the beloved potato to Germany. The legend is this: King Frederick ...

Napoleon faced the combined might of the Sixth Coalition (Russia, Austria, Prussia, Sweden) near Leipzig, in what would prove ...

Napoleon's final defeat seemed only a matter of time. But when Coalition armies crossed the Rhine and invaded France, ...

In 1975 Jack Bogle set up Vanguard in the town, launching the first index-tracking funds for ordinary savers soon after, with a focus on driving down the cost of investing. It worked. Today Vanguard ...

Calling themselves the Old Guard — get it? — they are the type of superheroic anti-heroes for whom ballads are written. Or ...

The grave of a notable soldier who fought in the Battle of Waterloo has been restored by volunteers. Sgt William Lawrence's posthumously published autobiography was one of the most famous first-hand ...

A Napoleonic prisoner of war camp buried under a field in Cambridgeshire has been bought by a trust with the intention of preserving it as a historic site. Norman Cross, the world's first ...

When we think of war, we usually picture armies, weapons, or world leaders. But hidden within those big stories are smaller, ...

Should America end up in a long war with China over Taiwan, they ask, or should NATO have to fight off another Russian ...

World’s first prisoner of war camp, used over 200 years ago, to open to public The site once held soldiers captured during the Napoleonic Wars Lily Shanagher Thursday 12 June 2025 00:02 BST 0 ...

Generations of Germans believe Frederick the Great brought the beloved potato to Germany. The legend is this: King Frederick ...