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Entrance to Lincoln Castle. (Dreamstime)

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Italian prisoners of war being escorted under armed guard to work on a farm, September 1941. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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Portrait of Sarah Gristwood for BBC History Magazine

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Once allies, Adolf Hitler and Ernst Röhm (sitting to his left) had a colossal falling out over ideology

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This caricature of those meetings depicts proceedings turning to chaos, thanks to the arrival of Napoleon – freshly escaped from his exile on Elba before 'the cake' (Europe) has even been cut

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Napoleon's planned invasion of England: what went wrong?

Napoleon Bonaparte on his deathbed. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Image)

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Painting of Napoleon in St Helena

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Napoleon on St Helena: how exile became the French emperor's last battle

Napoleon is apprehended by French soldiers on his return from Elba. Rather than take him to Paris in chains, the soldiers joined him

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Napoleon's comeback: from exile on Elba to the Hundred Days

An early 19th-century painting of Napoleon Bonaparte

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The storming of the Bastille, 14 July 1789, as depicted by artist Charles Thévenin

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Women fighters of the Jewish resistance with Judy Batalion

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French cuirassiers charging a British infantry square at the battle of Waterloo, 1815 (1906). From Cassell's 'Illustrated History of England, Vol. V' (Cassell and Company Limited, London, Paris, New York, Melbourne). Artist P Jazet. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

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The battle of Towton during the War of the Roses, 1461. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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The Wars of the Roses: the 15th-century clash of kings that heralded the dawn of the Tudor dynasty

Miniature depicting scenes from the Battle of Tewkesbury, where Edward IV defeated the Lancastrian forces of Margaret of Anjou

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How Edward IV reclaimed his throne at the battle of Tewkesbury

Troops pictured during the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War

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Gallipoli: 5 reasons why the First World War campaign was a failure

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A depiction of the Norman army, from the Bayeux Tapestry

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Napoleon: the rise and fall of a dictator

German troops and a Georgian ‘volunteer’ in action in 1942 or 43.

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Battle of Culloden. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Newark Castle flanked by the river Trent. To say that King John's death here in 1216 was little-lamented is something of an understatement. "With John's foul deeds all England is stinking, as does hell, to which he is now sinking," wrote the chronicler Matthew Paris. (Getty Images)

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