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Article still in extreme infancy. As well as expanding existing sections, also need the following (in no particular order). Contributions welcome! (even if it's merely an addition to list below). Gwinva ( talk) 04:14, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
"those veterans had won nineteen pitched battles and innumerable combats; had made or sustained ten sieges and taken four great fortresses; had twice expelled the French from Portugal, once from Spain; had penetrated France, and killed wounded or captured two hundred thousand enemies — leaving of their own number forty thousand dead, whose bones whiten the plains and mountains of the Peninsula." Sir William Napier: here Gwinva ( talk) 04:05, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
I have made a few edits recently. I have outlined the organisation in 1793; subsequent increases in size and changes can be appended to this introductory paragraph. I have consolidated the sections on the British infantry, though this section could do with some trimming. I have also added lots of campaigns, hopefully emphasising that Britain's military committments were worldwide, and that Britain's contribution to the Napoleonic Wars was more than just the Duke of Wellington and the Peninsular Wars.
There's a long way still to go however. Current article size is 39 Kb. That leaves about 31 Kb before Wikipedia starts complaining that it's too big. HLGallon ( talk) 04:06, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
That is a well and truly weaseled section if ever I have seen one. I know that some people will go to great lengths to preserve the...ah, 'glorious reputation' of the British army, particularly in this era, but really? If you're going to describe a sneak attack against a neutral nation's capital, followed by a massacre of civilians in such a way...Well, we might as well just ditch the 'NPOV' thing here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.223.222.47 ( talk) 17:51, 25 September 2011 (UTC) \\
Do we have any information on what the East India Comapny's private army was doing during the Napoleonic Wars? Were the sepoy's sent abroad like they were later in the century? What of the British Army garrison and white soldiers within the company's ranks? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.8.192.142 ( talk) 14:50, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
Agonaido britânico 179.108.78.44 ( talk) 14:45, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
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Article still in extreme infancy. As well as expanding existing sections, also need the following (in no particular order). Contributions welcome! (even if it's merely an addition to list below). Gwinva ( talk) 04:14, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
"those veterans had won nineteen pitched battles and innumerable combats; had made or sustained ten sieges and taken four great fortresses; had twice expelled the French from Portugal, once from Spain; had penetrated France, and killed wounded or captured two hundred thousand enemies — leaving of their own number forty thousand dead, whose bones whiten the plains and mountains of the Peninsula." Sir William Napier: here Gwinva ( talk) 04:05, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
I have made a few edits recently. I have outlined the organisation in 1793; subsequent increases in size and changes can be appended to this introductory paragraph. I have consolidated the sections on the British infantry, though this section could do with some trimming. I have also added lots of campaigns, hopefully emphasising that Britain's military committments were worldwide, and that Britain's contribution to the Napoleonic Wars was more than just the Duke of Wellington and the Peninsular Wars.
There's a long way still to go however. Current article size is 39 Kb. That leaves about 31 Kb before Wikipedia starts complaining that it's too big. HLGallon ( talk) 04:06, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
That is a well and truly weaseled section if ever I have seen one. I know that some people will go to great lengths to preserve the...ah, 'glorious reputation' of the British army, particularly in this era, but really? If you're going to describe a sneak attack against a neutral nation's capital, followed by a massacre of civilians in such a way...Well, we might as well just ditch the 'NPOV' thing here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.223.222.47 ( talk) 17:51, 25 September 2011 (UTC) \\
Do we have any information on what the East India Comapny's private army was doing during the Napoleonic Wars? Were the sepoy's sent abroad like they were later in the century? What of the British Army garrison and white soldiers within the company's ranks? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.8.192.142 ( talk) 14:50, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
Agonaido britânico 179.108.78.44 ( talk) 14:45, 2 July 2022 (UTC)