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What was a British soldiers life like during the Napoleonic Wars? How was he recruited and trained? How did he live on home service and during service abroad? And what was his experience of battle? In this landmark book Philip Haythornthwaite traces the career of a British soldier from enlistment, through the key stages of his path through the military system, including combat, all the way to his eventual discharge. His fascinating account shows how varied the recruits of the day were, from urban dwellers and weavers to plowboys and laborers, and they came from all regions of the British Isles including Ireland and Scotland. Some of them may have justified the Duke of Wellingtons famous description of them as the scum of the earth. Yet these common soldiers were capable of extraordinary feats on campaign and on the battlefield that eventually turned the course of the war against Napoleon.

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Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The author extends especial thanks to - photo 1
Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The author extends especial thanks to: Derek Green, Alan Harrison, the late Terry Livsey, the late Edward Ryan, Dennis Sully, and Allan Wood.

AUTHORS NOTE

In general it has been found practical to use notes largely to identify the sources of quotations; further references appear in the bibliography.

Notes
Introduction

United Service Magazine 1842, I, p. 182.

Creevey, T., The Creevey Papers, ed. J. Gore, London 1934, p. 404.

Wheeler, W., The Letters of Private Wheeler 1809-1828, ed. B.H. Liddell Hart, London 1951, p. 144.

Colburns United Service Magazine 1845, I, pp. 1, 4, 8.

Sherer, M., Recollections of the Peninsula (published as by the Author of Sketches of India), London 1823, p. 145.

Some explanation of the name appears in Laffin, J., Tommy Atkins , London 1966, pp. xi-xii, where the 1815 document is reproduced.

Colburns United Service Magazine 1845, III, pp. 17-18.

A Laurel Neath Proud Wellington by W.S. Passmore, ibid. 1846, III, p. 240.

Chapter 1

The Anti-Gallican; or Standard of British Loyalty, Religion and Liberty, London 1804, I, p. 97.

United Service Journal 1839, II, p. 204.

Donaldson, J., Recollections of the Eventful Life of a Soldier, Edinburgh 1854, pp. 292-93.

United Service Journal 1840, II, p. 343.

General Order, Coimbra, 29 May 1809.

Chapter 2

Stanhope, Philip, 5th Earl, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington, 1831-1851, London 1888, p. 18.

ibid. p. 14.

London Chronicle, 23 July 1795.

Gentlemans Magazine , August 1810, p. 176.

ibid., October 1803, p. 971.

London Chronicle, 21 November 1795.

Paine, J., Recruiting Poster: 73rd Regiment, 1813, Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, Vol. XXXI (1953), p. 184.

14th Light Dragoons; Leetham, Lt.Col. Sir Arthur, Old Recruiting Posters, ibid. Vol. I (1922), p. 119.

Lincoln, Rutland and Stamford Mercury, 25 October 1793; quoted in Wylly, Lt.Col. H.C., The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, London 1934, Vol. I, p. 175.

Royal Marines, 1812.

Donaldson, pp. 87-88.

Morning Chronicle, 29 April 1794.

Seton, Col. Sir Bruce, Bt., Infantry Recruiting Instructions in England in 1767, Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, Vol. IV (1925), pp. 86-87.

Donaldson, p. 86.

Colburns United Service Magazine 1846, I, p. 522.

Clerk, Revd. A., Memoir of Colonel John Cameron, Fassiefern, K. T.S ... , Glasgow 1858, p. 23.

ibid., p. 22.

Colburns United Service Magazine 1845, II, pp. 443-44.

United Service Journal 1839, I, pp. 528-29.

Morris, T., The Three Sergeants, or Phases of a Soldiers Life, London 1858, p. xxxii.

Donaldson, pp. 35-36.

London Chronicle, 16 June 1795.

ibid., 22 January 1795.

Exeter Flying Post, 20 June 1779.

United Service Magazine 1842, I, p. 178.

There were various versions of this very popular song; Grinfelt is Greenfield, near Oldham.

United Service Magazine 1842, I, p. 50.

Morris, pp. xxviii, xxx.

Leetham, p. 120.

London Chronicle, 6 January 1798.

The Courier, 9 April 1811.

Colburns United Service Magazine 1845, III, p. 396.

ibid. 1846, I, p. 523.

Napier, Sir George, Passages in the Early Military Life of General Sir George T. Napier, KGB, ed. Gen. W.C.E. Napier, London 1884, pp. 21-22.

Chapter 3

Bell, J. (ed.), Rhymes of the Northern Bards, Newcastle 1812, p. 310.

Colburns United Service Magazine 1845, II, p. 102.

ibid., III, p. 561.

United Service Journal 1840, II, p. 455.

London Chronicle, 6 January 1798.

Macintosh, H.B., The Grant, Strathspey or First Highland Fencible Regiment 1793-1799, Elgin 1934, pp. 96-116.

This and the following quotations from Macpherson, C.H., On the Recruiting of the Army, Colburns United Service Magazine 1846, I, pp. 111-19.

ibid. 1847, II, p. 537.

ibid. 1845, III, pp. 282-84.

ibid. p. 110.

United Service Journal 1839, III, p. 271.

See Holme, N., & Kirby, E.L., Medal Rolls, 23rd Foot. Royal Welch Fusiliers, Napoleonic Period, Caernarfon & London 1978.

Blakeney, R., A Boy in the Peninsular War, ed. J. Sturgis, London 1899, pp. 73-74.

Edinburgh Evening Courant, 27 February 1812.

Morning Chronicle, 10 September 1810.

Lagden, A., & Sly, J., The 2/73rd at Waterloo, Brightlingsea 1988, pp. 200-01.

Greenhill Gardyne, C., The Life of a Regiment: The History of the Gordon Highlanders, London 1929, Vol. I, p. 34.

Chapter 4

Gentlemans Magazine, October 1803, p. 992.

Porter, R.K., Letters from Portugal and Spain, written during the March of the British Troops under Sir John Moore, London 1809 (published under the nom-de-plume of An Officer), p. 219.

Public Ledger, 9 March 1813.

Sinclair, Sir John, Hints Respecting the State of the Camp at Aberdeen, in 1795 , n.d., pp. iv-v.

Historical Records of the Queens Own Cameron Highlanders, Edinburgh 1909, Vol. I, pp. 45-46.

Anton, J., Retrospect of a Military Life, Edinburgh 1841, p. 210.

Colburns United Service Magazine 1843, III, p. 214.

Ross-Lewin, H., With the Thirty-Second in the Peninsular and other Campaigns, ed. J. Wardell, Dublin 1904, pp. 103-05.

Colburns United Service Magazine 1843, II, p. 86.

ibid. 1843, III, p. 214.

The News, 8 August 1808.

For an account of this singular occurrence, see Browne, T.H., The Napoleonic War Journal of Captain Thomas Henry Browne 1807-1816, ed. R.N. Buckley, London 1987, pp. 113-16.

United Service Journal 1831, II, p. 204.

Cooper, J.S., Rough Notes of Seven Campaigns in Portugal, Spain, France and America, Carlisle 1869, r/p 1914, pp. 85-86.

Both these quotations: Surtees, W., Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade, London 1833, p. 22.

Lawrence, W., The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence, ed. G.N. Bankes, London 1886, p. 216.

Gentlemans Magazine, December 1803, p. 1179.

Morley, S., Memoirs of a Serjeant of the 5th Regt. of Foot, Ashford 1842, p. 114.

Cooper, p. 28.

United Service Journal 1831, II, p. 61.

Chapter 5

Edinburgh Evening Courant, 7 May 1812.

True Briton, 25 March 1803.

Colburns United Service Magazine 1846, II, pp. 400 01.

United Service Journal 1840, I, pp. 197-98.

ibid. 1834, I, p. 259.

ibid 1847, III, p. 503.

Anton, p. 29.

Answers to Queries from Sir John Sinclair, respecting the Situation of a British Soldier of Infantry, in British Military Library or Journal, London 1800-01, Vol. I, p. 479.

Marshall, H., Contributions to Statistics of the British Army, originally in Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, July 1835.

Colburns United Service Magazine 1846, I, p. 525.

Smyth, B. History of the XX Regiment, 1688-1888, London & Manchester 1889, p. 139.

Gentlemans Magazine, May 1804, p. 473.

United Service Journal 1839, III, p. 546.

Anti-Gallican Monitor & Anti-Corsican Chronicle, 27 September 1812.

Gentlemans Magazine, July 1809, p. 683.

ibid. June 1801, p. 491.

See Bowyer-Bower, Maj. T.A., Some Early Educational Influences in the British Army, Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, Vol. XXXIII (1955), pp. 5-12.

Lagden & Sly, p. 51.

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