About a half dozen people circled around Timothy Tessmer outside the Old Fort barracks Sunday as he demonstrated the uses of a replica firearm French soldiers wielded two centuries ago. “This was a ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — The Old Fort reenactors brush up on their French for Napoleonic Days, a celebration on Saturday and Sunday, of the era between 1799 and 1815. Visitors are able to watch a ...

A military base, a hotel, the site of shipwrecks and tightrope walkers: this private island has seen it all. We chat to Thorne Island’s current owner, Mike Conner, to discover what this former fort ...

Fri 20 Jun 3.52pm • Fort Darnet in the River Medway off the Kent coast will be taken over by actors for five performances created by Ben Judd for this year's Estuary Festival. Catch up: Watch the ...

King's College London provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The Napoleonic wars were fought on a bigger scale than any conflict that had gone before. Though concentrated in Europe, ...