Fit to Command: British Regimental Leadership in the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Wars

First in-depth study of what a Commanding Officer in the British army did during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era.

Regimental and battalion commanders are perhaps the most-overlooked cohort of the British Army during the period of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Nineteenth-century histories tending to be written from the top-down, such that the decisions of the commanding generals took primacy; the battalion commanders existed at the very bottom of that chain and so were infrequen...