NATO soldiers participate in Battle of Waterloo anniversary at the NATO Resolute Support Headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 18, 2015. British and coalition troops gathered at the NATO ...
Thursday marks the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. For the British, it was a famous, but costly victory, as we're reminded by author Bernard Cornwell: Two hundred ...
WATERLOO, Belgium — To the victor go the spoils: So Waterloo became synonymous with Napoleon’s demise, even if the worst of the battle never happened there. Ignoring the bloodied grounds of nearby ...
A 200-year old skeleton discovered beneath a parking lot at the Battle of Waterloo site has been identified as a German soldier. The remains are the first full skeleton to be recovered from the famous ...
Archaeologists made an “incredibly rare” find Wednesday in Belgium when they uncovered the remains of soldiers and horses who died in the 1815 Battle of Waterloo. The discovery was made by the team ...
As we endure the torrent of books of varying quality recalling the events in Europe of a century ago, we are blessed with others of exceptional quality that examine the peril that Britain was in two ...
A few years ago I wrote a book about Waterloo. Called Dancing Into Battle, it viewed the most famous of 19th-century military clashes from the vantage point offered by the frantic social life of ...
The new Ridley Scott movie Napoleon aroused some thoughts regarding the Battle of Waterloo, so famous in history and so well depicted in the movie, despite the film’s many historical inaccuracies. At ...
BRUSSELS (AP) — Royalty, dignitaries and soldiers commemorated the 1815 Battle of Waterloo on Thursday, a watershed moment in European history that marked the end of the continent’s domination by ...
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