WATERLOO, Belgium (Reuters) - British army veterans and serving troops, some of them wounded in recent campaigns, are working alongside archaeologists to unearth the history of the Battle of ...

A penny carried in the pocket of a British soldier which deflected a bullet is among dozens of artefacts in a new collection created to mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo A penny ...

It was June 18, 1815, and the French commander could see British regiments leaving ... there have been rumors that the bones of soldiers killed at Waterloo were dug up for use in industrial ...

QUESTION Did any British soldiers survive both the Battle of New Orleans and The Battle of Waterloo? A famous example of this was Sir Henry George Wakelyn Smith (1787-1860), better known as Harry ...

When Napoleon was infamously defeated at Waterloo in 1815 ... his rule formed the Seventh Coalition, including a British-led multinational army led by the Duke of Wellington and a larger Prussian ...

The records cover the Battle of Waterloo, arguably one of the most important battles in European history. June 18th marks the bicentenary of the famous battle where the British Army helped to ...

More than 200 years after Napoleon met defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, the bones of soldiers killed on that ... not far from a field hospital the British Duke of Wellington had set up.

The battle was fought near Waterloo village ... I have another friend who has probably four British soldiers that he discovered while (metal) detectoring next to the Lion’s Mound (on the ...

(See also: How the Battle of Waterloo changed the world ... (Here's how Napoleon fed his army.) The allied forces consisted of British, German, Belgian, Dutch, and Prussian troops, who were ...

the heir to the British throne, but this fell apart when the young Prince failed to make a favorable impression on his prospective bride. Ultimately, infamous or not, Wellington’s army emerged ...