Buttons from uniforms ... European history, Napoleon remains a source of fascination. Last year an extremely rare ‘bicorne,’ or two-pointed hat, that was worn by the French leader at the ...

At just 14 he had been working as a Midshipman in the Royal Navy, when he was captured by the French during the Napoleonic ... uniform sold by a corrupt officer, he may well have thought he got a ...

200 years ago, Napoleon’s army took on the Russians ... and tin was the major metal used to make buttons in the French army’s uniforms. As the severe Russian temperatures approached -30 ...