Napoleonic Wars

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It is often forgotten that Britain's struggle against Napoleon ranged across the continents, and the extensive operations of the Royal Navy and the...

Britain alone could not hope to defeat the might of Napoleonic France which, through enforced conscription, had become a nation in arms. But Britis...

From the sun-baked sierras of Spain, through the stormy waters off Cape Trafalgar to the muddy and bloody fields of Waterloo, Britain's soldiers an...

A masterly and concise reinterpretation of one of the seminal events in modern history, by one of the world's foremost military historians. The bat...

Battles, blockades, convoys, raids: how the indefatigable British Royal Navy ensured Napoleons ultimate defeat Horatio Nelsons celebrated victory o...

The Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller A fabulous story, superbly told cannot be bettered Max Hastings ...

These lively memoirs date from the time of Barres' entry into the Chasseurs Velites (skirmishers, or light infantry) of Napoleon's Imperial Guard ...

Albert Jean Michel de Rocca gives a riveting account of the Peninsular War from an entirely different perspective. Albert Rocca was a junior office...

'Fills a very noticeable gap in the history of the Napoleonic Wars by providing a good description of what it was like to be a member of the Royal ...

The Trafalgar Chronicle, sponsored by The 1805 Club, is the publication of choice for new research about the Georgian Navy, sometimes called Nelso...

These lively memoirs date from the time of Barrs entry into the Chasseurs Velites (skirmishers, or light infantry) of Napoleons Imperial Guard in 1...

The Peninsular War (1807-1814) was a military conflict for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic War, where the French were oppose...