HOLMES, Richard REDCOAT. The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket , London: HarperCollins, 2001.

First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 0002570971 Book and fine dustjacket. Pictorial endpapers. xxx, 466pp, including References, Biography and Index. With nice quality 33 colour and 31 black-and-white illustrations. The story of the 'backbone of the army' - the British from c.1760 until c.1860. Based on the letters and diaries of the ordinary soldiers on - uniforms, equipment, flogging, wounds, food, barrack life, courage, comradeship, etc. It charts Wolfe's victory and death in Quebec, the American War of Independence, the Duke of York's campaign in Flanders, Wellington's Peninsular War, Waterloo, the retreat from Kabul, the Sikh wars in 1845-9, the Crimean war and the Indian Mutiny. (Book ref. 6910)  £22.00

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