Most readers will be familiar with the famous greenjackets of the 95th Rifle Regiment through Bernard Cornwell's "Sharpe's Rifles" series. This is ironic because, while Sharpe and his core followers are soldiers of the 95th Rifles, the 95th itself appears only in the very first novel and then the...
Urban has rescued from near oblivion one of the most important men for Britain's winning the Peninsular War. Unfortunately for this man, George Scovell, he was not a member of the aristocracy and so, as apparently was typical for aristocrats such as Wellington, his achievement was not acknowledg...