For the first time, British Army regular troops have operated a high-powered laser weapon mounted on an armored combat ...

Colonel Alistair Carns warns UK would not be able to sustain losses like those suffered by Kremlin’s forces in Ukraine ...

The entire British Army would be destroyed in six months to a year if it was pulled into a major conflict and lost troops at ...

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

It dates from the Napoleonic era and would have been made ... as they would have sold them to British military officers. This example, however, was given to the surgeon of the camp in thanks ...

BBC History Best of History websites The British Museum The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites Thursday, 9.00 - 9.45am, rpt 9.30pm Melvyn Bragg explores the history of ideas.

The whole British Army would be destroyed in “six months to a year” if at war with Russia, a minister has warned. Veterans ...

He left the army due to epileptic fits in the 1820s. O’Keeffe points out that the Napoleonic Wars (1793 – 1815) led to a dramatic proliferation of British military bands. By 1814, more than ...

The graves of 101 soldiers who fought in Napoleonic wars have been identified ... Napoleon was defeated by the British at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. A committee of experts was set up in ...