SHORNCLIFFE LECTURES VOL.1: COOTE MANNINGHAM'S SHORNCLIFFE LECTURE OF 1803 AND THE ORIGINS OF THE 95TH RIFLES.

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The 'universal soldier' capable of thinking for himself was created under General Sir John Moore at Shorncliffe in Kent. This volume explores the development of light infantry from 1755 in both Europe, America, and West Indies to the eve of the Peninsular War in 1808. It includes the original lecture, brief biographies of 46 officers, chronology of the Light Division infantry regiments and the 60th Rifles, and the origins of the 95th Rifles through biographies of its commanders, regulations, and Baker Rifle tests.