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Whilst writing his magisterial The History of The Peninsular War, Sir Charles Oman gathered material that was to become Wellington's Army. Into Wellington's Army he gathered, as he says in his Preface, "much miscellaneous information which does not bear upon the actual chronicle of events in the various campaigns that lie between 1808 and 1814, but yet possesses high interest in itself, and throws many a side-light on the general course of the war ... these notes relate either to the personal characteristics of that famous old army of Wellington, which, as he himself said, 'could go anywhere and do anything,' or to its innermost mechanism - the details of its management. I purport to speak in these pages of the leaders and the led; of the daily life, manners, and customs of the Peninsular Army, as much as of its composition and its organization. I shall be dealing with the rank and file no less than with the officers, and must even find space for a few pages on that curious and polyglot horde of camp followers which trailed at the heels of the army, and frequently raised problems which worried not only colonels and adjutants, but even the Great Duke himself."

Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman was born in India during January 1860. He was destined to become one of Britain's most noted historians, and to write many fine and highly respected works including A History of the Art of War in the Middle Ages, History of the Peninsular War, The Great Revolt of 1381, England Before the Norman Conquest and Studies in the Napoleonic Wars.

Oman was elected to the Chichele chair of modern history at Oxford in 1905, and in the 1914-18 war his military knowledge was used by the Press Bureau and the Foreign Office. His work was recognised by a knighthood in 1920. From 1919 to 1935 Sir Charles sat in the House of Commons as burgess for the University of Oxford. He was elected FBA in 1905, served as President of the Royal Historical and Numismatic societies and of the Royal Archaeological Institute. He became an honorary fellow of New College in 1936 and received honorary degrees of DCL (Oxford, 1926) and LL.D (Edinburgh, 1911 and Cambridge, 1927). He died at Oxford in June 1946.

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