Born in Gascony in 1769, Jean Lannes joined the French army following the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars ... the emperor turned his armies towards Habsburg, Austria, Britain’s ...

Essling, Napoleon led his reinforced army back across the Danube. The resulting clash with Archduke Charles's Austrian army was the biggest and bloodiest battle yet seen in European history, and ...

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 Napoleonic Wars in ... sold them to British military ...

War broke out between Britain and France in 1793 ... known first as the 'French Revolutionary Wars' then the 'Napoleonic Wars'. In 1804 Napoleon, Emperor of France, made slavery legal again ...