DUPIN'S BRITISH ARMY AND ARTILLERY OF THE NAPOLEONIC WARS (edited by Stephen Summerfield)

Dupin (1820 rp2018) Military Force of Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars
Author: Charles Dupin
Volume I: Organisation of the Army.
Publisher: Ken Trotman Publishing.
Pages: New introduction by Dr. Stephen Summerfield, plus 395pp including 20 plates of scale artillery/technical line drawings
EXTRACT
https://www.academia.edu/36387335/Dupin_1820_Vol-1_Military_Force_of_Great_Britain_-_Organisation_of_the_Army

Author: Dupin, Charles (1820 rp 2018)
Title: Military Force of Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars
Volume II: Military Schools, Ordnance and Engineers.
Publisher: Ken Trotman Publishing.
Pages: New introduction by Dr. Stephen Summerfield, plus 470pp and 71 plates of scale artillery/technical line drawings
EXTRACT
https://www.academia.edu/36387425/Dupin_1820_Vol-2_Military_Force_of_Great_Britain_-_Artillery

"To fully understand the British Army at the end of the Napoleonic Wars we need to turn to a French polymath who mastered naval, civil and military engineering as well as mathematics, science and economics. Charles Dupin visited the British Isles as soon as practical after the Napoleonic Wars in a fact-gathering exercise with the full sanction of the French government. He wrote up his technical and organisational study of the British Army in his monumental two volume study entitled "Force militaire de la Grande-Bretagne" that was published in French in 1820 accompanied with a separate plate volume. This was translated into English in an 1822 edition.

The plates from the plate volume "Force militaire de la Grande-Bretagne" and selected ones from "Force navale de la Grande-Bretagne" have been combined within the two volumes to give the closest contemporary study of the administration of the Army and the best technical guide to the ordnance of the period.

The introduction to Volume II describes that the scale drawings are the only published contemporary scale drawings of British Ordnance of the Napoleonic Wars. The only other sources currently available are the few Royal Military Academy cadet drawings. Later authors have used mid-Victorian drawings which show the refinements caused by the use of machine tools that were not introduced to the Royal Carriage Department until after the Napoleonic Wars."