This is a model of HMS Surprise, part of Nelson’s fleet, & featuring in the film Master & Commander, starring Russell Crowe.
Heritage projects across the East of England have been awarded a share of an £81,000 grant from Historic England. A ...
This week, it was claimed that King Charles III had personally intervened in the naming of a new Royal Navy submarine which ...
The author of literary classics such as Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades, Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837), is widely regarded as Russia’s greatest poet. While the Pushkin family was of ...
Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant was shocked by the paralysis of local authorities after the Battle of Solferino, and then ...
Napoleon “Paul” Henry Bousquet ... Paul served in the United States Army during the Korean War earning the rank of Corporal and was awarded the National Defense Service Medal.
Not only has China advanced technologically in key strategic sectors despite sanctions, but it has also gained adherents to its alternative worldview.
It involved a total of around 260,000 troops ... However, Russia was a completely different war from what Napoleon was used to. The result was a stunning blow to the French Empire and a nail ...
Is it possible to see into the future Many believe that a man named Michel de Nostradamus could His predictions of the future have mystified scholars for over four hundred years Nostradamus made over ...
The British Navy built the Royal William Victualling Yard in Plymouth in the wake of the Napoleonic wars to stock its warships ... Urban Splash, a Manchester developer involved in regeneration ...
Against all odds and countless financial challenges, Joan Laporta is still standing, smiling, as Barcelona's club president.
Out of Utah have come Oscar-ready films like "CODA" – the only Sundance movie to win best picture – plus cult oddities such as “Napoleon Dynamite” and ... fantasies and gets old college pals involved.