In this podcast, Professor Bruce Collins looks at the development of the British army during the French Wars and the nineteenth century

Specification overlap:

• Edexcel ‘The British Experience of Warfare’
• OCR ‘The Changing Nature of Warfare’

1. The British Army at the start of the French Revolutionary Wars
2. Challenges and changes for the British army
3. Training and discipline in the British army
4. Supplying and subsidising campaigns
5. The development of the British army after Waterloo
6. Radical reforms after the Crimean War
7. The Haldane reforms of 1906-12
8. Differences between 19th and 20th century army barracks
9. Was Wellington or Napoleon the better commander?
10. What accounted for Napoleon's early successes?
11. Waterloo vs. the Somme