Robert Craufurd
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Major-General Robert Craufurd was a British Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. After a military career which took him from India to the Netherlands, in 1810 in th
Portrait of Craufurd
Craufurd at Ciudad Rodrigo (from a British book)
Light Division
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The Light Division is a light infantry division of the British Army. It was reformed in 2022, as part of Future Soldier reforms.
Robert Craufurd
…and Napoleonic Wars. After a military career which took him from India to the Netherlands, in 1810 in the Peninsular War he was given command of the Light Division, composed of the elite foot soldiers in the army at the time, under the Duke of Wellington. Craufurd was a strict disciplinarian and somewhat prone to…
1812 illustration of an officer and private of the 52nd Regiment of Foot