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 ...
It dates from the Napoleonic era and would have ... Objects like these would have made the prisoners of war some money, as they would have sold them to British military officers.
The graves of 101 soldiers who fought in Napoleonic ... wars saw the French empire, led by Napoleon I, fight European powers in a series of battles beginning in 1803. Napoleon was defeated by the ...