Napoleonic Wars

History abounds with unresolved puzzles and unanswered questions, none more so than that of the loss of the British Army's military chest during th...

The Scum of the Earth explores the common soldiers the Duke of Wellington angrily condemned as ''scum'' for their looting at Vitoria, from their gr...

William Clarke of Prestonpans, Scotland, joined the 2nd Royal North British Dragoons, the Scots Greys, in 1803. Clarke had risen to the rank of ser...

It is June 1815 and an Anglo-led Allied army under the Duke of Wellington s command and Gebhard Leberecht von Bl cher is set to face Napoleon Bonep...

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the life of a petty tyrant in an obscure corner of the Ottoman Empire became the stuff of legend. What ...

Sir John Moore is perhaps the second most famous British soldier of the Napoleonic Wars after the Duke of Wellington, yet his remarkable career has...

Muffling's memoirs provide an exceptional first-hand account of the Napoleonic Wars by one of Prussia's finest general staff officers. Muffling is ...

In 1801 the newly forged United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland commenced life at war with France and her allies and remained so until 1815. A...

Second Captain Webber of the Royal Artillery joined Captain Maxwell's 9-pounder Brigade at Zafra in August 1812. His journal covers the period up t...

France, early summer 1794. The French Revolution has been hijacked by the extreme Jacobins and is in the grip of The Terror. While the guillotine r...

The Battle of Waterloo marks an event that changed the fate of Europe irrevocably. Beautifully illustrated, it includes reproductions of contempora...

While artillery has been described as the queen of the Napoleonic battlefield, this was an era when cavalry could still play a decisive role in bat...

This volume of French eyewitness accounts of Waterloo, published for the first time in full in English, completes Andrew Field's pioneering work on...

Some of the most famous memoirs of Britain's long war against Napoleon have come from the pens of members of Wellington's Light Division, but many ...

''Describing narrow squeaks and terrible deprivations, Harris''s unflowery account of fortitude and resilience in Spain still bristles with a fresh...

Writing to his mother the day after the fighting, Captain Thomas Wildman of the 7th Hussars described a victory so splendid & important that yo...

''In a later age he would have become a successful war correspondent ... We have no more human account of the Peninsular War from a participant in ...

John Gordon Smith wrote one of the most vivid, honest and readable personal accounts of the Battle of Waterloo and the ensuing campaign, where he s...

To give political legitimacy to his Empire, in just fifteen years Emperor Napoleon I created an enduring image of Napoleonic France as the contempo...