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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
An extremely rare ‘bicorne,’ or 2-pointed hat, that was worn by Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo was sold at auction in France for $325,000 on Monday. The hat went under the hammer for €280,000 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A new study examines the possible cause as to why no mass graves for the thousands of casualties from the Battle of Waterloo have ever been discovered. The bones of soldiers killed during the Battle ...
Battle of Waterloo - Napoleon has return from exile, and prepared his armies for war. Nations that opposed him formed the ...