British Army during the Napoleonic Wars

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The British Army during the Napoleonic Wars experienced a time of rapid change. At the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars in 1793, the army was a small, awkwardly administered force of barely 40,000 men.^[1] By the end of the period, the numbers had vastly increased. At its peak, in 1813, the regular army contained over 250,000 men.^[2] The British infantry was "the only military force not to suffer a major reverse at the hands of Napoleonic France."^[3]