Napoleonic Wars 1789-1815
These two books cover the Penninsula War - Napoleon's invasion of Portugal - and the 100 Days War leading up to the Battle of Waterloo.
The French Grand Army, including the finest cavalry and the stalwart Old Guard, allowed Napoleon to conquer half of Europe.
Led by Sir Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, the British forces with their Dutch, German and Hanoverian allies set out to stop Napoleon in his tracks.
When Napoleon invaded, the Portuguese quickly adopted British drill and tactics to defend their homeland.
At Waterloo, the Prussians famously marched to the aid of Wellington's army, turning the tide just in time.
The tenacious Russians had inferior equipment but they were always ready for a bayonet charge!
French Indian War
Named after the enemies of the British colonies in North America – the French colonials and their native Indian allies - this conflict pits ordered ranks of line infantry against the skirmishing colonials, frontiersmen and native tribes.
American War of Independence
In 1775 American colonists rise up against British rule. The King’s redcoats, loyal settlers and regiments of ‘Hessian’ mercenaries fight a citizen army led by George Washington, supported by militia and French troops.
American Civil War
In 1860 the fledgling United States of America, under President Abraham Lincoln, fall into civil war between the northern Unionists and the Confederates of the south.
The tribal armies of the Zulu nation crash against the thin red line of the British Empire at Isandlwana, Ulundi and the famous Rorke's Drift.
The Crimean War
Fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire, the war is famous for the Battle of Balaclava, Florence Nightingale and the Charge of the Light Brigade.
The Mahdist Revolt
The Mahdists rebel against the Egyptian government in Sudan, laying siege to Governor Gordon’s remaining forces in Khartoum. A British relief force marches down the Nile but arrives too late…
Terrain & Paint
Battle over the forts of North America, the redoubts of Rorke's Drift or the farmhouses of Waterloo.