Museums around Europe have rallied a troop of artifacts to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo’s 200th anniversary. The Waterloo200 website launched last month includes a 200 Objects of Waterloo online ...
As we endure the torrent of books of varying quality recalling the events in Europe of a century ago, we are blessed with others of exceptional quality that examine the peril that Britain was in two ...
On June 18, 1815 the course of European history was changed when French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte found himself outmatched on the fields near Waterloo, Belgium. Britain's Duke of Wellington would ...
Bones thought to belong to soldiers killed at the Battle of Waterloo have been discovered in an attic in Belgium. The battle was fought near Waterloo village, south of Brussels, on June 18, 1815.
When the elderly man approached after Bernard Wilkin had given a speech on battlefield bones, it's safe to say that Wilkin was not expecting the man's opening gambit. Subscribe to read this story ...
The Cedar Falls girls wrestling team earned another championship Thursday at the Dan Gable Museum Battle of Waterloo. The event was held inside the Young Arena in Waterloo. The action was intense ...
Flowers are in full spring bloom outside Bruce Weigle's Alexandria home, but inside it's the dead of winter: January 1871 to be exact. Weigle is refereeing a step-back-in-time battle from the ...
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If battle reenactments are your thing, today will be of particular significance – at least if you’re in the UK. Britain has for some months now been building up towards the anniversary of the Battle ...
Our views of war are sanitised today. In an age of professional armies trained for increasingly technical tasks, few of us have witnessed combat, much less taken part in it. In that vein, ...
Two hundred years ago, Napoleon Bonaparte and The Duke of Wellington met at Waterloo, in what is now Belgium. At stake was world dominance. Many books have been written about this epic battle but most ...
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