Midshipman Charles Hare's account of his escape from a French prison, alongside the outfit he fled in, can be seen from today ...

A uniform used by a local sailor to trick his way out of prison during the Napoleonic Wars has gone on display at the National Maritime Museum in London. Charles Hare, from Lincolnshire, joined the ...

Does it matter if a central bank is privately owned? No, it makes no difference. Public or private, central banks give the ...

Nuclear deterrence and alliances like NATO help prevent major wars. U.S. influence and organizations like the UN promote ...

Answering questions from in parliament, the minister confirmed that the size of the army will fall below 70,000 for the first ...

Buy to the sound of cannons and sell to the sound of trumpets,” was the purported quote of Baron Nathan Rothschild during the ...

Recent Books and Dissertations on French History. French Historical Studies, Vol. 46, Issue. 4, p. 640. The Napoleonic Wars saw almost two decades of brutal fighting. Fighting took place on an ...

At the Writers Theatre, audiences are transported to 19th century Russia by director and choreographer Katie Spelman’s ...

The former general won 96 million votes—the most ever for a single candidate anywhere in recorded history—in a landslide ...

“Buy to the sound of cannons and sell to the sound of trumpets,” was the purported quotation (which he probably did not utter) from Baron Nathan Rothschild during the Napoleonic wars. That’s ...

French Historical Studies, Vol. 46, Issue. 4, p. 640. Volume III of the Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars moves away from the battlefield to explore broader questions of society and culture.