By Severine Angers October 21st 2025 The Battle of Trafalgar is one of Britain’s most famous victories. The roaring success of the British fleet against the Spanish and the French crystallised Horatio Nelson as a national hero through his death in the battle, and his body was repatriated to Britain and buried at St. Paul’s Cathedral. However, numerous men who fought on this memorable day are now buried in cemeteries across the world, and their graves are slowly falling into d

By Rosslyn Macphail I found, in an old family cabin trunk, Captain John Orr’s Peninsular War diary and some notes he wrote in old age....

The light cavalry and the British regime in 1815 Waterloo and London By Andrew Lydon 'Stop them!' a cavalry colonel shouted. He pointed,...

By Samuel Moore On this day in 1805 the Battle of Trafalgar (the last great sea battle in the age of sail) was fought. 219 years later...