Excerpt from General Craufurd and His Light Division, With Many Anecdotes, a Paper and Letters by Sir John Moore, and Also Letters From the Right Hon.: W. Windham, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Londonderry, and Others Napier.' Writing to Craufurd on April 9, 1810, Welling ton says to him, Since you have joined the army, I have always wished that you should command our outposts, for many reasons into which it is unnecessary to enter. Sir George Napier says of his old leader, Robert Craufurd, Although he was a most unpopular man, every officer of the Light Division must acknowledge that, by his unwearied and active exertions of mind and body, that Division was brought to a state of discipline and know ledge of the duties of light troops, which never was equalled by any Division in the British army, or sur passed by any Division of the French army. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.