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Rifles : six years with Wellington's legendary sharpshooters

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As part of the Light Division created to act as the advance guard of Wellington's army, the 95th Rifles are the first into battle and the last out.

Fighting, thieving and raping their way across Europe, they are clearly no ordinary troops.

The 95th are in fact the first British soldiers to take aim at their targets, to take cover when being shot at, to move tactically by fire and manoeuvre. And by the end of the six-year campaign they have not only proved themselves the toughest fighters in the army, they have also - at huge personal cost - created the modern notion of the infantryman.

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Faber & Faber
0571216811 / 9780571216819
Paperback / softback
02/09/2004
United Kingdom
English
xiv, 351 p.. [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.)
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: 2003.