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This volume provides a comprehensive view of the social, political and military aspects of the volunteer movement of the French Wars: the volunteer infantry, yeomanry cavalry and the armed associations in England, Scotland and Wales from 1794 to 1814 and in some cases beyond.

Books about The British Volunteer Movement, 1794-1814

Britain was France's most implacable enemy during the Napoleonic Wars yet was able to resist the need for conscription to fill the ranks of its army and sustain Wellington's campaigns in Portugal and Spain. This new study explains how the men were found to replenish Wellington's army, and the consequences

This book approaches the English Channel as a border which connected, as much as it separated, France and England in the eighteenth century.

This is the first book-length examination of the involvement of British volunteers in the Spanish forces during the Napoleonic Wars.