Our Fighting Services and How They Made the Empire (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Our Fighting Services and How They Made the Empire (Classic Reprint) written by Evelyn Wood and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Our Fighting Services and How They Made the Empire The Duke of Wellington, commander-in-chief, realising that the House of Commons would, as it had always done, on the conclusion of Peace, disband the Army, prepared to face that eventuality. He recognised that the Auxiliary Departments, which he had organised, and perfected be tween 1810 and 1814, must be the first to disappear, and he designedly scattered the Three Arms by small detached units, in secluded barracks, to save them from extinction at the hands of Parliamentary Economists; he tried to preserve a small army by hiding it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.