The French version of King Arthur’s legendary Excalibur sword has vanished from a rock into which legend says it was plunged 1,300 years ago. The Durandal sword from Rocamadour, southern France ...

Just the year before, Keeler, a 21-year-old sergeant in the Army Corps of Light Infantry, had been presented with an engraved, French-made battle sword by no less than the Marquis de Lafayette.

This sword was taken from the surrendered French forces during the invasion of Fishguard in 1797. It carries on each side of the blade engravings of sun, moon and stars above the inscription ...