The Franco-Spanish border is just over 62 miles away and Vitoria-Gasteiz’s surviving medieval walls attest to a city at a ...

The picturesque seaside town is a favourite with Londoners and has been named the best in the UK by The Times - and its local ...

The day was June 18, 1815. By about 8 p.m., the emperor of France knew he had been decisively defeated at a village called Waterloo, and he was now keen to escape from his enemies, some of whom ...

Swanson; Photographs by Samantha Reinders Merrill Joshua, of St. Helena’s tourism board, dressed in full Napoleonic regalia ... in this room with tales of war, conquest, glory and defeat ...

Taking in the small Baltic nation of Lithuania Julian begins in its picturesque capital Vilnius where he investigates the country's communist past, visitingan abandoned war time bunker ... he ...

Britain's credibility as a debtor was fundamental to its ability to finance the fight against Revolutionary, and later Napoleonic France. The scale and length of the war demanded that it sustain ...

The Las Cruces Public Libraries newest craft program, themed painting, will feature both this weekend. The City of Las Cruces said this program will take place from 1 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, April ...

Howard Pyle’s "The Battle of Nashville" captures the harrowing advance of Minnesota soldiers through smoke and mud in a pivotal Civil War clash. If the Minnesota State Capitol were on fire ...

where he attracted the ire of his fellow military officers for actively trying to evade conscription in the Napoleonic Wars, Sir John Conroy found himself in the employ of the Duke of Kent as an ...