The Wandering Army: The Campaigns that Transformed the British Way of War

Contents\nList of Illustrations and Maps\nList of Abbreviations\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction: ‘A Science Covered with Darkness’: British Military Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century\n1 ‘Grasping in the Dark’: Defeat and Humiliation, Adaptation and Innovation, 1745–1758\n2 ‘I Was Come to Take Canada’: Louisbourg, Quebec and Montreal, 1758–1760\n3 The ‘Great Book of War’: Forms of British Military Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century\n4 ‘No Idea of Any Other Than a Direct Attack’: William Howe in America, 1774–1777\n5 ‘Indirect Manoeuvres’: The Failure of Henry Clinton’s American Strategy, 1775–1781\n6 ‘Advance and Be Forward’: Military Knowledge and Adaptation in India, 1750–1790\n7 ‘Decisive Victory Will Relieve Us from All Our Distresses’: The Lessons of War with Mysore, 1790–1803\n8 ‘Totally Unfit for Service’: Defeat and Humiliation, 1793–1799\n9 The ‘Wandering Army’: The Rebirth of the British Army, 1799–1801\n10 The ‘Universal Soldier’: Shorncliffe and the Light Division, 1803–1812\n11 ‘The Scientifics’: High Wycombe and the British Way of Warfare, 1803–1815\n12 ‘The Dread of Innovation’: From Enlightenment to Ignorance, 1815–1856\nConclusion: ‘Every Fertile Genius’: Britain’s Accidental Military Enlightenment Explained\nNotes\nBibliography\nIndex