Midshipman Charles Hare's account of his escape from a French prison, alongside the outfit he fled in, can be seen from today ...

More than two centuries after the 1805 battle, in which sailors were told 'England expects that every man will do his duty', ...

By Adam Dutton via SWNS The skull of a seafaring goat which supplied milk to Napoleon Bonaparte aboard ship after he ...

The service will take place at the Nelson monument at Portsdown Hill on Monday (October 21). Annual commemorations, led by ...

Now that Sir Keir Starmer has unilaterally decided to give up British ownership of the Chagos Islands, the last vestige of ...

Discover the true story of Charles Hare, the 19th-century midshipman who used a French officer's uniform to pull off a daring prison break ...

By Adam Dutton via SWNS The warship gangway that Napoleon Bonaparte stood on to surrender to the British Navy following the Battle of Waterloo is set to fetch $79,000 at auction. Described as a ...

An ingenious disguise. A precious heirloom. Discover the story behind this remarkable uniform, now on display at the National Maritime Museum ...

They told the story of naval warfare from the middle ages to the Napoleonic Wars: both were highly acclaimed, and rightly so. Then Rodger suffered a serious illness; fortunately he recovered ...

The route is steeped in history and along the way there are windmills, a church with a round tower, a huge railway viaduct and lighthouses and villages with names such as Good Easter, Coggeshall and ...

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