What's it like to recreate a 200-year-old style of war in a videogame? We embed ourselves in a digital regiment from the… ...

We've meticulously recreated the authentic design of Napoleonic Wars-era army regiments, complete with historically accurate uniforms and capabilities.

The uniforms worn during Napoleonic Wars represent the most elaborate display of pomp in the whole history of military dress. Click to enlarge the picture. Drawing by Anton Panin. From the left to ...

Now we know that brass bands emerged from Britain’s wars against Napoleon.” Wartime bands included woodwind instruments such as clarinets and bassoons, but the 15th Regiment of Foot had ...

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The shako was altered on the eve of the 1812 war to give it a concave top and sides. Still bearing a plume, the form was unique and immediately indentified Russian soldiers during parades of the ...

Black soldiers served in the 88th Regiment of Foot in the Peninsular campaign, and even after the Napoleonic Wars the regiment continued to recruit Black soldiers.

On eyewitness battlefield accounts, from the Napoleonic Wars to World War II . By . Max Hastings. Share. ... in April 1815 before the Waterloo campaign, his regiment heard news that Wellington, ...

Military musicians returning from the Napoleonic wars established Britain's first brass bands earlier than previously thought, ... He joined the 23 rd Light Dragoons, a cavalry regiment, ...