"This book is not a guide to the life of the Duke of Wellington, nor is it in any way a summary of the Sharpe novels by Bernard Cornwell, or even a concise history of the British Army of Richard Sharpe's time. Rather, it is a miscellany: a collection of interesting, arcane, or extraordinary information about life in the many British regiments that comprised Wellington's forces between 1797 and 1815. It contains facts about the…