From Waterloo to Balaclava: Tactics, Technology, and the British Army 1815-1854

by Hew Strachan

In 1815 the British army stood at a peak in its history: under Wellington it had taken part in the final defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. Yet in 1854, when next engaged in war against a European enemy, its performance was at best mediocre and at worst disastrous. For the press at the time, as for historians since, the Crimean War revealed an incompetent, antiquated army, rusty after forty years of complacent neglect. From Waterloo to Balaclava shows...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521304393
• ISBN13: 9780521304399
• Release Date: November 1985
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"