Huw J. Davies is reader in early modern military history at King's College, London. He is the author of Wellington's Wars: The Making of a Military Genius and Spying for Wellington: British Military Intelligence in the Peninsular War.
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A compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—showing how the military gathered knowledge from campaigns across the globe At the outbreak of the War of Austrian Succession in 1742, the British Army's mili... SEE MORE