WELLINGTON’S ARMY

PLATE I.

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington.

From a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence.

WELLINGTON’S
ARMY
1809–1814

BY
C. W. C. OMAN
M.A. OXON., HON. LL.D. EDIN.
CHICHELE PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

SECOND IMPRESSION

LONDON
EDWARD ARNOLD
1913
[All rights reserved]

Much has been written concerning Wellington and hisfamous Peninsular Army in the way of formal history:this volume, however, will I think contain somewhat thatis new to most students concerning its organization, itsday by day life, and its psychology. To understand theexploits of Wellington’s men, it does not suffice to read amere chronicle of their marches and battles. I haveendeavoured to collect in these pages notices of thoseaspects of their life with which no strategical or tacticalwork can deal, though tactics and even strategy will notbe found unnoticed.

My special thanks are due to my friend Mr. C. T.Atkinson, Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, for allowingme to use the admirable list of the brigade and divisionalorganization of the Peninsular Army which forms AppendixII. It is largely expanded from the article on the sametopic which he printed eight years ago in the HistoricalReview, and enables the reader to find out the precisecomposition of every one of Wellington’s units at anymoment between April, 1808 and April, 1814. I havealso to express my gratitude to the Hon. John Fortescue,the author of the great History of the British Army, foranswering a good many queries which I should have foundhard to solve without his aid. The index is by the sameloving hand which has worked on so many of my earliervolumes.

C. OMAN.

Oxford,
September, 1912.

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