Born on the island of Corsica in 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte came to prominence as a brilliant military commander during the ...

Bill de Ropp spied on Nazi Germany for MI6 and helped provide vital intelligence before the Second World War ...

Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire. 1494: Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica, landing ...

1803: active in organizing a volunteer force in Staffordshire to oppose the planned invasion of England by Napoleon. 9 October 1817 ... Henry (1803-1868) was a British naval officer, rising to Admiral ...

At the heart of this year’s edition of the popular Museums by Candlelight is the sword of honour personally awarded by Napoleon in 1800 to Denis Decrès, a famous French Rear Admiral. This sword was ...

Nestled in the mouth of Tasman Bay, and named after a British admiral, Nelson’s connection to the ocean is deep. Now, local business and political players want to see its blue economy grow. The 'blue ...

The Foreign Office hosted a lunch for Massera at the Savoy hotel and among the invitees was the British Admiral of the Fleet, Peter Hill-Norton. “Massera seemed a little taken aback at the ...

Dada J P Vaswani narrates a story to bring out the power of humility and the futility of ego There was a woman who lived a pure and holy life She woke up every morning at the break of dawn and spent a ...

We'll be back tomorrow with more from the war in Ukraine. Here is what happened today: Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the Czech Republic to meet its president Petr Pavel. He said that a ceasefire ...

In the latest exchange, 205 prisoners of war have been returned from Russia and Ukraine, according to Moscow. The Kremlin's Ministry of Defence said the United Arab Emirates helped to mediate the ...

The Napoleonic, Crimean and Boer Wars, the Indian campaigns followed by the First World War and ensuing major 20 th century British armed conflicts (18 different campaign medals were issued in the ...