Wellington's Regiments

"The most complete machine for its numbers now existing in Europe" is how Wellington described his army in 1813, shortly after the Battle of the Nivelle which took him to the bring of victory in the Peninsular War. His army was indeed a superb fighting machine which blazed a trail of glory across the Iberian Peninsula from Portugal to Southern France, fighting a score of major battles and storming three powerfully held fortresses.

Wellington's Regiments is an account of that army and of each of the actions that were later awarded as battle honors, from the early days of the Peninsular War, at Rolica in 1808, until the final momentous battle at Waterloo some seven years later.