By Mike Chappell
The forces which Wellington led in Portugal and Spain and up into southern France through the Peninsular War (1808-1814) completed a checklist of victory maybe unrivaled within the heritage of the British military. between his infantry the regiments of the sunshine department have been self-consciously an ?lite, expert to struggle with initiative and independence at the uncovered edges of the marching military. This booklet explains their evolution and strategies, info the campaigns during which they fought and illustrates the uniforms and gear of the sunshine Infantry regiments: the forty third (Monmouthshire), 52nd (Oxfordshire), 51st (2nd Yorkshire), 68th (Durham) and eighty fifth (Bucks Volunteers).
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32 HEADGEAR »3in( olden times the soldier's chief concern has been protecting his head. Discoveries from pre-Christian times prove this. The heavily armored knights, disappeared with the dying Middle Ages, and the new fighting groups that appeared on the scene dispensed with unhandy iron armor and helmets by using different tactics. Between the Thirty Years' War and the end of the 17th Century, iron helmets disappeared and broad-brimmed hats were used. It remains to be determined why so little attention was given to protecting one's head then.