It dates from the Napoleonic era and would have been made by a French prisoner ... made the prisoners of war some money, as they would have sold them to British military officers.

Prussia's army had been feared throughout Europe since the days of Frederick the Great, but in just 5 weeks of 'Napoleonic Blitzkrieg', the French Emperor showed that those days were long gone.

Gudin was a veteran of both the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. He attended the same military school as Napoleon, and is believed to have been one of the French emperor's favourite generals.

Conflict extended beyond Europe to include the colonies in what was known first as the 'French Revolutionary Wars' then the 'Napoleonic Wars'. In 1804 Napoleon, Emperor of France, made slavery ...