It dates from the Napoleonic era and would have ... Objects like these would have made the prisoners of war some money, as they would have sold them to British military officers.
The destruction brought by the Napoleonic wars of the ... memorial to those who died in World War One and later conflicts. It was adopted by The Royal British Legion as the symbol for their ...
The graves of 101 soldiers who fought in Napoleonic ... wars saw the French empire, led by Napoleon I, fight European powers in a series of battles beginning in 1803. Napoleon was defeated by the ...
The war medals ... during the Napoleonic wars against the French. " The family medals were handed to brothers Archibald, Murdoch, John and Hector who were all officers in the British Army.
Back then, the British Army had around 40,000 soldiers but was rapidly increased to fight the French Revolutionary and ...