Talk:British Army during the Napoleonic Wars

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A fact from British Army during the Napoleonic Wars appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 9 June 2008.

[edit] To do

Article still in extreme infancy. As well as expanding existing sections, also need the following (in no particular order). Contributions welcome! (even if it's merely an addition to list below). Gwinva (talk) 04:14, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

• 1790s reforms under Duke of York
• Cavalry
• Engineers / artillery
• Living conditions; barracks, campaign cantonments, rations and supplies
• equipment and weapons
• outline of campaigns
• Commanders and command structure
• Women: camp followers, army wives and children etc
• Relationship with allies and enemies
• Prisoners and conditions / exchanges
• Hospitals, injuries, discharges, pensions
• brief mention of irregulars, scouts and so forth (brief becasue this is about regular army)
• politics and "home front", Horse Guards, Gazette,

[edit] Useful quote

"those veterans had won nineteen pitched battles and innumerable combats; had made or sustained ten sieges and taken four great fortresses; had twice expelled the French from Portugal, once from Spain; had penetrated France, and killed wounded or captured two hundred thousand enemies — leaving of their own number forty thousand dead, whose bones whiten the plains and mountains of the Peninsula." Sir William Napier: here Gwinva (talk) 04:05, 9 June 2008 (UTC)