By Fire and Bayonet

There have been few books about Grey''s glorious (but ultimately ill-fated) West Indies campaign in the early years of the long and terrible wars of 1793-1815, yet five of the subalterns in Grey''s expeditionary force went on to command divisions in Wellington''s Peninsula army; another two commanded the Iron Duke''s Royal Artillery; and one (Richard Fletcher) - famously - the Royal Engineers. Th...