a venerable but little-known British bank stands ready to back the UK's Armed Forces – as it has done since the Napoleonic wars. Holt's Military Banking, based in Farnborough, Hampshire ...

It dates from the Napoleonic era and would have ... Objects like these would have made the prisoners of war some money, as they would have sold them to British military officers.

The British Army currently has 72,510 full-time troops – its smallest size since the Napoleonic ... if the UK went to war because the military was too small. General Sir Jim Hockenhull ...