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In this, the 7th of our series of articles commemorating the 220th anniversary of the death of Lord Nelson, historian Lt Col Ray Aldis examines the Battle of the Nile, often described as the most ...

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The 19th-century power struggle between the Sikhs, the British, and the Afghans shaped the political landscape of the time.

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The remnants of Britain’s once mighty empire still give the mother country more than a few headaches. Britain, which once ...