Red silk poppies were first sold by the Royal British Legion in 1921, with the funds raised used to help veterans with employment and housing. That year, Field Marshal Douglas Haig set up the Haig ...

he had joined the British Army in 1787 and quickly risen up the ranks. After making his name in India, he commanded forces against Napoleon in Portugal and Spain during the Peninsular War (1808–14) ...

Marshal Michel Ney squinted at the center of the English line at Waterloo. It was June 18, 1815, and the French commander could see British regiments leaving the field. Ney ordered some 12,000 ...

The French cavalry charged on the order of Marshal Michel Ney, known as "the bravest of the brave." Convinced that the British ... In a field bloody with the wounded and the dead, Napoleon tried ...

Her previous two legitimate Kings, Gustavus III and Gustavus IV Adolphus, had been enemies of Revolutionary and Napoleonic France so uncompromisingly that they brought the country to the verge of ...