British Light Infantry & Rifle Tactics of the Napoleonic Wars

Explains and illustrates the training and tactics of the Light Infantry and Rifle regiments, famously dramatized in the ''Sharpe'' novels and TV films.

In an age when infantry units manoeuvred and fought in rigid blocks, the idea of encouraging initiative and allowing a unit to ''skirmish'' was regarded as revolutionary and fell out of favour in the years following the French-Indian and American Re...