One African country has an army six times the size of Britain's, run on a military budget around eight times smaller. Not ...

Abandoned over a decade ago, a vast town that once hosted thousands of British military personnel and their families is now slowly surrendering to the wilderness. Article continues below But the ...

As the Revolutionary War spread through every region, those in bondage sided with whichever army promised them personal liberty. The British actively recruited slaves belonging to Patriot masters ...

Guy Deacon followed the west coast of Africa on his 18,000-mile trip The "grit and determination" of a former Army officer with Parkinson's who drove the length of Africa – nearly entirely alone ...

After leaving the British Army, he worked for a while in Africa and then found himself back in Edinburgh where, by pure ...