Those who maintain that Britain is not a European country because it’s an island nation should reflect on how deeply ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Napoleon Bonaparte's astonishing return to power in France from exile on Elba in 1815 and how ...

An American war re-enactor earned the job of Napoleon for the 210th anniversary of the battle, despite his accent.

Destroyed in 1815, the Hougoumont estate is now emerging from a 10-year restoration project — but how can the gardens combine ...

Waterloo Uncovered: What happened to Waterloo’s dead? Five teeth appeared first, all of them still firmly ensconced in bone, their enamel sparkling in a mound of hard-baked, windblown earth.

As British, Austrian, Russian, and Austrian forces once again came together to stop Napoleon in 1815, Napoleon gathered forces to rebuild his empire. His final campaigns, fought in Belgium ...

Waterloo, in this traditional British telling, was a British victory. Blücher, the Prussian co-victor, wanted the battle to be known to history as Belle-Alliance, after the inn where he and Wellington ...

The June 18, 1815, clash ended Napoleon Bonaparte's ambitions of conquering Europe, and resulted in the deaths of around 20,000 soldiers.

Bones thought to belong to soldiers killed at the Battle of Waterloo have been discovered in an attic in Belgium. The battle was fought near Waterloo village, south of Brussels, on June 18, 1815 ...

Agincourt, Waterloo, Qatar: Old foes England and France brace for World Cup battle Quarterfinal clash will be ‘the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life.’ ...