Excerpt from General Craufurd and His Light Division, With Many Anecdotes, a Paper and Letters by Sir John Moore, and Also Letters From the Right Hon.: W. Windham, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Londonderry, and Others
There are two passages in English military literature which make one marvel that nothing approaching to a real memoir of General Robert Craufurd has ever been written; the one is in the Duke of Wellington"s Despatches, and the other in the "Early Military Life of Sir George Napier." Writing to Craufurd on April 9, 1810, Wellington says to him, "Since you have joined the army, I have always wished that you should command our outposts, for many reasons into which it is unnecessary to enter." Sir George Napier says of his old leader, Robert Craufurd, "Although he was a most unpopular man, every officer of the Light Division must acknowledge that, by his unwearied and active exertions of mind and body, that Division was brought to a state of discipline and knowledge of the duties of light troops, which never was equalled by any Division in the British army, or surpassed by any Division of the French army."
In some ways it may seem unsuitable that a civilian should write concerning so great a military leader and so glorious a Division.
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