This book describes the rebirth of British military power and hence
of the authority of her diplomacy. When England went to war with
revolutionary France in 1793 her army was weak from ten years of
neglect of discipline and training, from political interference in
the selection of its officers and from the failure of her
recruiting policies. To these disadvantages were added a cumbrous
system of political control, divided counsels and inept strategy.
The result was defeat in her attempted continental campaigns of
1793 95 and the loss of the respect of both her allies and her
enemy. The work of reform began in 1795. From being the least
feared of France's principal enemies, the British army became a
force capable of winning the victories of the Peninsular War, of
making a real and weighty contribution to the overthrow of
Napoleon, and of compelling attention to Britain's voice in the
Congress of Vienna which created the Europe of the nineteenth
century. Professor Glover studies this transformation in detail.
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