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Before its heroics under the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War, the British army was barely tolerated by the general population.

Filled with the lowest of society, the army was the perfect recruiting ground if you wanted pickpockets, robbers or killers.

But, forged into a disciplined, honed weapon of war, it went on to become one of the greatest military forces ever to take the field.

Undefeated on the battlefield, the British redcoats took on the best Europe could throw at them and, if disciplined volley fire did not see them off, then the bayonet charge would.