Sir Garnet Wolseley: Soldier of Empire

Field Marshal Lord Wolseley was an eminent Victorian, one of a handful of late nineteenth—century military men whose reputation transcends his age. He served the British empire in Burma, India, China, the Crimea, Canada, Asante, Egypt, South Africa and the Sudan. He excelled as a regimental soldier, staff officer, army commander and reformer and eventually commander—in—chief. Yet there has been no substantial work on Wolseley for a generation and a reassessment based upon a fresh look at th...