title: The British Army, 1815–1856; recent writing reviewed
abstract: The principal medical officer of the day, Sir James McGrigor, has been the subject of a biography by Richard L. Blanco, Wellington’s Surgeon General J. Warburton has covered the medical history of the Crimea in ‘A medical history of the British Expeditionary Force in the east. The cavalry—the arm most obviously affected by developments in firepower—has received exhaustive treatment from the Marquess of Anglesey in his History of the British Cavalry 1816–1919. The pre-Crimean ranker has not recei