Eighteenth of June in British Military History
Three important events on this day:
1812: War declared between the UK and the USA. Britain, already embroiled in a long war with Napoleon Bonaparte, ended up in a silly little sideshow with the USA. Bonaparte's agents arguably provoked the war to divert Britain so France could invade Russia with more ease: historians do not all agree with each other on the reasons.
1815: Battle of Waterloo when the Irish born Duke of Wellington's allied army defeated the Corsican born Bonaparte's mainly French army.
1855 Battle of the Redan: Russians defeat a British attack in a battle often neglected in UK schools.
1812: War declared between the UK and the USA. Britain, already embroiled in a long war with Napoleon Bonaparte, ended up in a silly little sideshow with the USA. Bonaparte's agents arguably provoked the war to divert Britain so France could invade Russia with more ease: historians do not all agree with each other on the reasons.
1815: Battle of Waterloo when the Irish born Duke of Wellington's allied army defeated the Corsican born Bonaparte's mainly French army.
1855 Battle of the Redan: Russians defeat a British attack in a battle often neglected in UK schools.
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