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They were slow lumbering vessels designed to have a large capacity for transporting goods but at the sacrifice of manoeuvrability

After years of fighting in North Africa and the Far East the British Army set foot back in Europe with the invasion of Sicily and Italy

There is a famous account of Romans not wanting to leave their boat to tackle the frenzied British and their Druid leaders on the shores of Britain

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Napoleonic Hanoverian Line Infantry Regiment plastic boxed set sarissa They were slow lumbering vesselsThe Duke of Wellingtons armies of the Napoleonic Wars were built from troops of all manner of nations and principalities, whom on the whole were British officered and trained, and who fought very well alongside their British comrades. The Hanoverian troops were, of course, German. They joined up in the British army to carry on the fight against Napoleon, the tyrant of the continent, when so many of their German cousins elected to fight for Bonaparte.