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Under the Sun“ A monthly column of random, historical vignettes... The post Putin & Napoleon: A True Story of Overreach, Hubris, and the Contemptible Betrayal of Paupers Passing Themselves off as ...

In last week’s UK album chart, the highest-positioned British band was Oasis with their greatest hits collection. The Manchester band’s 1994 debut Definitely Maybe was also the UK’s top ...

It might have even become a theatre of the Napoleonic wars, had Tipu Sultan, the Sultan of Mysore, succeeded in his attempts to forge an alliance with the French Emperor to defeat the British in ...

Patrick Kjellerup, press officer at the Guard Hussar Regiment, told BT News: 'Trekroner is a name that has been given to the Crown Prince by the Life Company. It is normal and an old hussar ...

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 ...

In an apparent jab at France, Russian President Vladimir Putin said later: "There are still people who want to return to the times of Napoleon, forgetting how it ended." French Emperor Napoleon ...

After the death of his wife, local newspaper writer Tony (Ricky Gervais) gets stuck on the second stage of grief: anger. With nothing left to live for, he decides to fill the lives of everyone ...