Details of the forthcoming events to be organised by the Friends can be found at Friends of the Lines of Torres Vedras - News (weebly.com) A reminder: our next talk is by Dr Jacqueline Reiter on Captain Sir Home Riggs Popham. Popham depending on your point of view was a brilliant or i

Invitation from the Friends of the Lines of Torres Vedras BCMH Members are invited to join the Friends on their visit to Stratfield Saye on Thursday 9 May.  Details are below.  Please contact Mary Brewer hib0u@msn.com for details, whom you will also know as the BCMH Membership Secreta

The University of Southampton will be holding its Seventh Wellington Congress 12-13 April 2019.  Booking is now open. See the link below. Wellington Congress 2019 focuses on all aspects of the career of the first Duke of Wellington, as well as the wider context in Britain, Ireland, th

An article by Dick Tennant about a fundamental aspect of logistics from ancient times and still very relevant in the Napoleonic period - and beyond.... Wellington's Mules     Picture credit http://gibraltar-intro.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/1705-two-centuries-of-smuggling-la-cosa.html

This post relates to an ongoing project to recapture the military music of the Napoleonic Wars by Dick Tennant and others. Bate Military Music Ensemble   Napoleonic Military Music Music of Wellington's Regiments CD Review Music of the Allies by Philip Haythornthwaite   Bate Ensemble l