NATO soldiers participate in Battle of Waterloo anniversary at the NATO Resolute Support Headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 18, 2015. British and coalition troops gathered at the NATO ...
They called him “the American,” and while it’s unclear whether that was a term of endearment, any fellow British officer using it to disparage Col. William Howe De Lancey risked the wrath of his ...
Three armies fought at Waterloo in 1815 under three very different commanders. Rarely has the style of leadership played such a key role in battle. At the battle of Waterloo, on 18th June 1815, the ...
Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles. By Bernard Cornwell. Harper Collins; 352 pages; $35. William Collins; £25. Waterloo: Four Days that Changed Europe’s Destiny. By Tim ...
What did the Battle of Waterloo, fought 200 years ago on June 18, 1815, really look like? There aren’t any snapshots to go by, since it was one of the last major battles fought before the invention of ...
Cpt Turnor said Waterloo the next day was "a most shocking spectacle too dreadful to describe" A letter written by a survivor of the Battle of Waterloo is to be put on display for the first time. Cpt ...
Two centuries ago next week, a rag-tag European army led by an Irish general defeated the French near a village south of Brussels. Next Thursday, Friday and Saturday 5,000 people will dress up in old ...
Bones of fallen soldiers from the 1815 Battle of Waterloo may have been sold as fertilizer, a new study suggests. The study, by the University of Glasgow’s Professor Tony Pollard, suggested that this ...
In the summer of 1846, a political pamphlet bearing the ominous signature "Satan" swept across Europe, telling a story which, though lurid and improbable, left a mark that can be seen to this day. The ...
Three armies fought at Waterloo in 1815 under three very different commanders. Rarely has the style of leadership played such a key role in battle. At the battle of Waterloo, on 18th June 1815, the ...
Royalty, dignitaries and soldiers around the world on Thursday commemorated the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, a watershed in European history that marked the end of the continent's domination by France and ...