Battles

Pivotal military engagements that have decided the fates of nations.

Rick, Beau and Gary exploring the River Trent

The Battle of Newark Castle and the River Trent

River Forth and the Battle of Stirling Bridge (Season 1)

Major John Sturgis' D-Day, D-Day hero, sitting next to his granddaughter India.

Major John Sturgis' D-Day

The Battle of Tewkesbury and the River Avon

A stock image of the Flag of Scotland

Scotland’s Greatest Victory Over the English

Oliver Cromwell painting

Oliver Cromwell: the most hated man in Irish history?

The Battle of Yorktown

Sir Keith Park: Battle of Britain's 'Defender of London'

The Western Front

Alberich: The operation that inspired Sam Mendes' 1917

Guernica: Could WW2 Have Been Stopped That Day?

Black and white photograph of e 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division, coming ashore during the Normandy Landings

The soldier awarded a Victoria Cross on D-Day

Peterloo: The massacre that led to parliamentary reform

Napoleon: the enlightened despot

A photograph showing the front view of a Lancaster Bomber

Lancaster: The Forging of a Very British Legend

The 617 Squadron is 1943

Dambusters: The truth behind the legend

Military evacuation of Dunkirk during World War 2

After Dunkirk

Sean Bean on Waterloo

10 Things you probably didn't know about Sean Bean

A photograph from the Second Battle of El Alamein

The major who led his men into battle with an umbrella

Royal Air Force Boulton Paul Defiant Mk Is of No. 264 Squadron RAF (including L7026 "PS-V" and N1535 "PS-A") based at Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire, August 1940.

The Battle of Britain