The Scum of the Earth: What Happened to the Real British Heroes of Waterloo?

by Colin Brown

The Scum of the Earth follows the men Wellington called just that from victory at Waterloo to a Regency Britain at war with itself, and explodes some of the myths on the way; such as that the defeat of Napoleon ended the threat of revolution spreading from France. Did the victorious soldiers return to a land fit for heroes? They did not. In 1819, the Peterloo massacre saw 15 killed and at least 500 injured when cavalry sabred a crowd demanding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750989173
• ISBN13: 9780750989176
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 250 Pages