The country's neutrality has its roots in the early 19th century, when Europe was engulfed in the Napoleonic wars. Though Sweden ended up on the winning side of battles against France’s warrior ...

This marked a significant change in Sweden's previous policy of military nonalignment which stretches back to the Napoleonic wars. Finland became an official member of NATO last April, also ...

This carving, made from animal bones, is unusual. It dates from the Napoleonic era and would have been made by a French prisoner of war based at a camp near Peterborough at the end of the ...