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 ...

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 ...