I have been proudly teaming up with Joshua Provan, author and founder of the Adventures in Historyland website/blog to produce these talks on 'All Things Wel...

One of the most daring raids of the Peninsula War

"recovering they closed on their terrible enemies, and then was seen with what a strength and majesty the British Soldier fights"

Lieutenant-General Arthur Wellesley's (later the Duke of Wellington) Anglo-Portuguese Army defeated the experienced French general... Soult

HMS Victory was launched on this day, 7th May 1765, 255 years ago at Chatham Dockyard. On the day of launch, shipwright Hartly Larkin realised the ship was t...

The Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro took place over 3 days, from the 3rd – 5th May 1811. Arthur Wellesley (Lord Wellington) had 37,600 men in 6 Divisions and a in...

A overview of Wellington's Cavalry Regiments.

I am writing this to tie into what would have been the 251st Birthday of Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington, on 1st May 1769. [The earliest know im...

Josh Provan, from Adventures in Historyland and I, both enthusiastic, decided to start a series of video calls, to tell the story of Wellington and Waterloo....

A difficult topic, but one that is often 'dismissed' by Francophile historians as too common, was the French Army's behaviour towards the civilian population...

In June 1808 Wellington was back in Britain, having returned from 9 years exemplary service in India (1796 - 1805), having won famous victories such as the B...

In 1793, the French revolutionary government declared war on Great Britain, adding fear of foreign invasion to that of domestic insurrection and leading to r...