Back then, the British Army had around 40,000 soldiers but was rapidly increased to fight the French Revolutionary and ...
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 ...
Firelock Games ' new Napoleonic wargaming Kickstarter for Blood & Bayonets is now funded unlocking new options for those who ...
On January 28, 1808, British forces from Fort William in Calcutta surrounded the Danish colony. The Danes did not put up much of a fight against the superior British army. In phone call with Modi, ...
The British victory at Waterloo in 1815 ... which was thought to house 7,000 French soldiers captured during the Napoleonic War.
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 ...