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

Private Thomas Anderson, from Dalkeith, in Midlothian, was 46 years-old when he and the Royal North British Dragoons — The Scots Greys — took part in the Charge of the Union Brigade on 18 June ...

The British Army had begun the war with 25,000 horses. By the time the war was over, more than a million horses and mules had been acquired by Britain, the majority of which did not return. Many more ...

The French Empire’s renewed hopes to break British naval power were dashed at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. But even as Napoleon abandoned hope of invading Britain, his Grand Army went on to ...

Band of the Second Regiment of Life Guards, leaving Windsor, 1830. Oil on canvas by John Frederick Tayler, 1830. Credit: National Army Museum Research reveals that Britain’s earliest brass bands were ...

Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to St Helena after the Battle of Waterloo Credit: PA Wartime bands included woodwind instruments such as clarinets and bassoons, but the 15th Regiment of Foot had ...

O’Keeffe points out that the Napoleonic Wars (1793 – 1815) led to a dramatic proliferation of British military bands. By 1814, more than twenty thousand instrumentalists were serving in uniform, in ...

"He served in the British army in a cavalry regiment, so mounted on horseback, went on to become the trumpet-major of the 13th Light Dragoons and leaves the Army in the 1820s," said Dr O'Keeffe.

Journal Reference: Eamonn O’Keeffe. British Military Music and the Legacy of the Napoleonic Wars. The Historical Journal, 2024; 1 DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X24000372 ...

He duly passed his exams and was promoted, but the final defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815 was a disaster for him and thousands of his fellow officers, made redundant as the navy was downsized.