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Battle
Belle
Bonaparte
Britain
British
Buonaparte
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century
combat
discipline
eighteenth
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equipment
forces
France
French
Guards
history
Horse
Horsemen
illustrated
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La
Mont
Napoleon
Napoleonic
Netherlands
nineteenth
of
organisation
organization
record
Revolution
Revolutionary
Saint-Jean
Squadron
uniform
uniforms
Wars
Waterloo
weaknesses
Product details
- ISBN 9780850454741
- Weight: 196g
- Dimensions: 182 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 25 Nov 1982
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Wellington considered the British cavalry to be technically inferior to the French, although paradoxically he also said that one British squadron would be a match for two of the enemy.
His main concern was that although the British cavalry lacked neither courage nor dash, they lacked discipline, in that they invariably failed to rally and re-form once they had charged home. At Waterloo, although the cavalry generally performed superbly well, the endemic faults which Wellington had already identified were repeated more than once, resulting in the decimation of several fine regiments.
In this illustrated volume, Bryan Fosten explores the history, organisation and uniforms of Wellington's Heavy Cavalry.
Bryan Fosten was born in 1928, the son of a Master Military Embroiderer and a Court Embroidress. He served in the army in Egypt and Palestine and returned to follow the printing trade, devoting himself to military research and illustration. He is the founding editor of the innovative magazine Tradition and has written and illustrated many books, often in collaboration with his late brother, Donald Fosten.
