KERATRAUNT: It’s a war of atrocities. It’s guerilla war — the word comes from this time. The French army has never fought this kind of war… It’s not at all the glorious war that they ...

SOMEONE has remarked that French institutions ... and the Army's hold on the popular imagination was not destroyed even by its defeat in the Dreyfus Affair. The two World Wars, however, all ...

This carving, made from animal bones, is unusual. 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 ...

Conflict extended beyond Europe to include the colonies in what was known first as the 'French Revolutionary Wars' then the 'Napoleonic Wars'. In 1804 Napoleon, Emperor of France, made slavery ...