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The vignette of the reduction of the 2/73rd in 1817 recounted in Chapter 1 exemplifies how the history of the British Army of this period has been dominated by Wellington, the Peninsular War and Waterloo. This has come at the expense of an exploration of the fundamental elements of Britain’s war machine and how they were adapted and supplemented to meet the demands of the Napoleonic Wars. In the particular case of the 73rd, although the 2/73rd’s involvement in Waterloo (which earned the regiment the Waterloo battle honour) merited a separate paragraph in the 73rd’s volume of the Historical Records, the disbanding of the second battalion receives merely a passing mention. It is only an aside in relation to the fact that the first battalion, then in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), was reinforced by its former members.1
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Linch, K. (2011). Conclusion: Britain and Wellington’s Army. In: Britain and Wellington’s Army. War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230316751_8
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