Reading progress update: I've read 95 out of 336 pages.
This book is proving interesting in ways that I hadn't expected. Anglesey has an entire chapter on the use of cavalry for domestic social control in the post-Napoleonic Wars period. It's more narrative than analysis, but it's a lot more than I was expecting in a history of the cavalry.
Anglesey's writing also has an occasional Blimpish tone, as twice he has made it clear that "firmness" is the key to dealing with protests. I'm surprised he didn't preface it with a, "Gad, sir".
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