attached to the head-quarters of Lord Wellington during the Peninsular War, from 1812 to its close
by
F. Seymour Larpent
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Wellington added a Judge-Advocate-General to his staff in 1812 “to ensure that courts-martial were conducted with proper forms and due appreciation of the validity of evidence – in which the commander-in-chief considered that they had often failed . . . Larpent, who has left an interesting diary...