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All for the King's Shilling: The British Soldier under Wellington, 1808–1814 (Campaigns and Commanders Series)
Edward J. Coss
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| #3757351 in Books | 2015-08-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.92 x6.00l,1.25 | File type: PDF | 400 pages||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Not Scum, But Good Men Pushed Beyond Reasonable Limits|By WNC Hiker|Edward Coss completely destroys the myth that the early 19th century British soldier joined the Army to escape jail or transport to Australia, and that once in the Army, only the fear of being flogged kept him under control. Using an impressive array of data from Army records and historical accounts, Coss concl||Coss writes this history to correct the long standing assumption that Wellington's redcoats were drawn from society's dregs. Using his database and many first-person accounts, he proves they were otherwise. Backgrounds and daily lives of the soldiers are
Possibly the most important book ever to have been written about the British army of the Napoleonic Wars. --Charles Esdaile, author of The Peninsular War: A New History
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 ju...
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