It dates from the Napoleonic era and would ... like these would have made the prisoners of war some money, as they would have sold them to British military officers. This example, however, was ...

Back then, the British Army had around 40,000 soldiers but was rapidly increased to fight the French Revolutionary and ...

the British Army had more than 100,000 regular troops. Now it is at its smallest since the Napoleonic wars, at just over 70,000. Even before the cuts, the British Army was stretched sending a ...

The Napoleonic Wars (1793 – 1815) led to a dramatic proliferation of British military bands, Dr O’Keeffe says. By 1814, more ...

The Army is suffering a recruitment crisis and is at its smallest size since the Napoleonic Wars with around 73,000 troops.