British Infantry Equipments 1808-1908 Book

This completely revised edition of a classic Men-At-Arms title covers the history of British Infantry Equipment from the landing of Wellesley's army in Spain in 1808 to the introduction of the first equipment set of wholly cotton webbing in 1908. The intervening century had seen a dramatic improvement in the lot of the ordinary infantryman. Although the fifty year dominance of the Duke of Wellington had kept the army in a state of near stagnation, the years that followed the Crimean War saw a steady and consistent process of reform which gradually brought the British Army up to a par with those of the great European Powers.