“Sir John Moore is certainly a most unlucky fellow,”1 said the Duke of Wellington, and he certainly was. An example of his bad luck is that he was Britain’s foremost general immediately before Wellington took over that distinction. Moore’s career lay in the trough between Marlborough and Wolfe on the one side and Wellington on the other. It began in the American Revolutionary War which from the
... [Show full abstract] British point of view could not be accounted a success, and it ended during the Napoleonic wars, but just before the British began to win battles.