A braid of hair taken from the head of a man considered a British hero for preventing Napoleon's planned invasion of the ...

Simon Bower, auctioneer at Morgan Evans and Co, in Gaerwen, Anglesey, told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast the plait was found ...

Though the Napoleonic wars rumbled on for another decade, Nelson’s victory gave the British total superiority at sea. From then on, Napoleon’s navy was kept bottled up in port, and Britain was ...

Such was the decisiveness of Britain’s victory at Trafalgar, Royal Navy’s commander, Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson, remains a household name more than 200 years later, and the battle has become ...

On October 21, the British Admiral Horatio Nelson had caught a French and allied Spanish fleet at Trafalgar and utterly destroyed it — at the cost of his own life.

“Terrified of being condemned [by Napoleon] for the most trifling actions,” the admirals preferred to take no action at all. The Battle. The situation on the British side was strikingly different.

As British admiral John Jervis reassured his superiors in 1801 amid rumors of an impending Napoleonic invasion, “I do not say, my lords, that the French will not come.

The first of the world wars was what the British used to call—long before "The Great War" of 1914—"the Napoleonic war." And not even the carnage in Flanders or at the Battle of Britain has ...

Sculpture, film, photography and installation works — which include Shonibare’s characteristic colorful, wax-printed cottons — consider Britain’s imperial history, focusing on the artist’s interest in ...

As British admiral John Jervis reassured his superiors in 1801 amidst rumors of an impending Napoleonic invasion, "I do not say, my lords, that the French will not come.