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A study of the British use of selected soldiers formed into temporary battalions, rather than established regiments, as the central tactical element on the battlefield in the 1775-1783 war.

A deeply human study of the 47th Regiment of Foot's difficult, but successful, transition from peacetime to wartime.

For most of the war, until the fall of Lord North's ministry in 1782, Lord Sandwich managed the navy as First Lord of the Admiralty. The demands on the resources of the Royal Navy, at home and abroad, meant that he faced an unending struggle to balance its priorities.

Fit to Command brings the battalion and regimental commanders of the British army in the period 1793-1815 into sharp focus and enables the reader to see their progression - how field officers of Wellington's victorious Peninsula army were dramatically better equipped for their roles than their earlier counterparts in Flanders in 1793.