The British Soldier under Wellington, 1808–1814
by
Edward J. Coss
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The British troops who fought so successfully under the Duke of Wellington during his Peninsular Campaign against Napoleon have long been branded by the duke’s own words—“scum of the earth”—and assumed to have been society’s ne’er-do-wells or criminals who enlisted to escape justice....