Road to Porto: The Battle of Grijo 10th-11th May 1809
Not as famous as many battles of the Peninsula War, The Battle of Grijo was fought on the evening of 10th May and the morning of the 11th...
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The Plunkett Shot
Thomas Plunkett is one of the most famous Private soldiers of the 95th Rifles, along with Rifleman Harris, who had his story memorialised...
The Best of Wellington – Five of the Iron Duke’s Victories That Surpass Waterloo
Written for: MilitaryHistoryNow.com • September, 2020 • Many remember Waterloo as Wellington’s most greatest victory. Yet by the time of...
History Hack - The Cult of Napoleon
I was kindly asked back onto History Hack, a online Podcast run by historians, to discuss, why does the Cult of Napoleon worship persist...
The Death of the Duke of Wellington 14 September 1852
The Duke died on 14 September 1852, in Walmer Castle on the South coast of Kent, this had been his official residence as Lord Warden of...
The Battle of Vimeiro 21 August 1808 - Seeing them off in the 'same old style' for the first time.
The French Grenadiers did not make it halfway up the ridge, before the jubilant 52nd, 97th and Rifle battalions added their weight of fire
The Battle of Roliça 17th August 1808. Wellington’s first Peninsular Attack and Victory.
In 1808 The British sent an expeditionary force to Portugal to help free the country from a recent swift invasion. The reasoning and the...
Battle of Vitoria 1813 - Wellington on the attack & "the scum of the earth."
The Battle of Vitoria marked the start of the final, though long campaign of the Peninsular War,
Video: background to Waterloo & Napoleon's Return
I have been proudly teaming up with Joshua Provan, author and founder of the Adventures in Historyland website/blog to produce these...
Battle of Almaraz – General Hill's raid
One of the most daring raids of the Peninsula War
Battle of Albuera – “Die Hard!”
"recovering they closed on their terrible enemies, and then was seen with what a strength and majesty the British Soldier fights"
Crossing the Douro, Wellington's amphibious assault.
Lieutenant-General Arthur Wellesley's (later the Duke of Wellington) Anglo-Portuguese Army defeated the experienced French general... Soult
HMS Victory Launched on this day - 7th May
HMS Victory was launched on this day, 7th May 1765, 255 years ago at Chatham Dockyard. On the day of launch, shipwright Hartly Larkin...
“If Boney had been there, we should have been beaten.” The Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro
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...
Wellington's Cavalry
A overview of Wellington's Cavalry Regiments.
Wellington the boy.
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....
Josh & Marcus: All Things Wellington Video
Josh Provan, from Adventures in Historyland and I, both enthusiastic, decided to start a series of video calls, to tell the story of...
French atrocities against civilians in the Peninsular War
A difficult topic, but one that is often 'dismissed' by Francophile historians as too common, was the French Army's behaviour towards the...
Wellington's first Peninsular Command
In June 1808 Wellington was back in Britain, having returned from 9 years exemplary service in India (1796 - 1805), having won famous...
The Gentlemen Riders – Yeomanry in Georgian Britain
In 1793, the French revolutionary government declared war on Great Britain, adding fear of foreign invasion to that of domestic...