the Duke of Wellington

Another pink gin please

13 August 2022 9:00 am

At the height of the IRA’s terrorist campaign on mainland Britain in December 1974, a bomb was lobbed through the…

In praise of Thomas Graham, unsung hero of the Peninsular War

7 September 2019 9:00 am

Why does a man join the army? The answer was probably more obvious in the 18th century than now, but…

‘Chelsea pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch’ by Sir David Wilkie

One dark summer’s day

7 February 2015 9:00 am

Of all the big battalions of books marking the bicentenary of the battle of Waterloo that have come my way,…

The charge of the Scots Greys at Waterloo by the British-American artist Richard Caton Woodville. From A History of War in 100 Battles by Richard Overy (William Collins, £25)

The Unbeaten vs the Unbeatable

25 October 2014 9:00 am

The Kaiser’s war deprived Britain of her centenary celebrations of the victory at Waterloo. It also set the propagandists something…