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WA Winter Lecture 2023/4 No 1-British troops in Portugal 1797-1802
A recent documentary discovery shows British military commitment to Portugal predates 1808 A recent crowd-funded purchase of an Or [...]
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WA Winter Lecture 2023/4 No2 The Battle of Blaauwberg 8th January 1806
The little known battle which would secure the Cape for Britain for 120 years Cape Town became involved in the Napoleonic Wars in [...]
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WA Winter Lecture 2023/4 No 3- French Army Uniforms of the 100 Days Campaign
This talk will explore and challenge the conventional thinking of how the 1815 infantry were uniformed during the 100 Days Campaig [...]
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WA Winter Lecture 2023/4 No4 The Boys of the 22nd Foot
The little known use of Boy soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars In the 1790s the British Army faced a recruitment crisis as depleted r [...]
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WA Winter Lecture No 5- British Conquest of Ceylon and the 1803 Kandy massacre
19.30-21.00 This talk details the invasion of Ceylon in 1795, by forces of the East India Company and the Crown, to wrest control [...]