The British Army, 1714-1783: An Institutional History

A detailed history of the 18th century British Army's operation, recruitment, legal status and administration.

Much has been written about the British army's many wars it fought in the eighteenth century, but no one has attempted to produce a history of the army as an institution during this period-until now. Timely and important, Stephen Conway's perceptive study takes into account the latest scholarship as he considers the army's legal status, political control and administration, its syst...