The British victory at Waterloo in 1815 ... which was thought to house 7,000 French soldiers captured during the Napoleonic War.

Napoleon’s soldiers charged. The British counterattacked ... The first time in the whole history of the Napoleonic wars the Guard was seen to falter and then eventually fall back, shouting ...

The destruction brought by the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th Century transformed bare land into fields of blood red poppies, growing around the bodies of the fallen soldiers. In late 1914 ...

but now they faced a popular insurgency as well as a well-trained Anglo-Portuguese army led by British general Lord Wellington. The Peninsular War, as it became known, became Napoleon's 'bleeding ...