August 13-20 is "Craft Beer Week" in Waterloo Region and Wellington County, according to a group of businesses who have joined forces to promote the local beer industry and draw attention to our ...
In the second part of our guide to the Battle of Waterloo, fought exactly 200 years ago, we look at the role played by faulty maps, Scottish cavalry – and 15,000 Soviet actors – in Napoleon’s demise.
This is an amazing eye-witness account of how the Duke of Wellington came within inches of death on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo. Now 200 years later, the two page missive from the frontline is ...
This month marks the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo, in which Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated in present day Belgium by a military alliance commanded by the Duke of Wellington. A ceremony has ...
Finishing touches are made to a new exhibition at the Wellington Arch and the re-presentation of Wellington's Hyde Park residence Apsley House which will open in time for the Bi-centenary ...
Just weeks after the Duke of Wellington beat the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, there was a thriving trade in anything connected with the battle. Travel ...
The Duke of Wellington’s boots and Napoleon’s cloak are part of the online display from the era-defining clash between the two generals’ armies in 1815. A French soldier’s body armour with a huge ...
The Duke of Wellington and Napoleon were both personally in command throughout the battle – which ended 20 bloody years of the Napoleonic wars – fought through a long day and into the night on a rain ...
Close-run and bloody, Waterloo could only have been won by Wellington, who acted as though he were younger than Napoleon 'The loss of so many friends', Waterloo by William Holmes Sullivan Credit: ...
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