The graves of a group of French prisoners from the Napoleonic Wars have been restored by a group of military history enthusiasts. The four men and one woman were buried at St John's Church in ...

In 1809, as Napoleon fought the Austrians at Wagram, the war in Spain and Portugal continued to rage. The French had ...

The picture illustrates the kind of life led by French prisoners of war once they had been sent to England following capture in the Napoleonic wars. Some of them were kept under guard in old navy ...