"This warrior nation welcome foreign fighters" is the headline of Robert Crampton's article in The Times; a thoughtful exploration of the UK's ambivalent relationship with the men from other countries who regularly augmented its armed forces. He recalls that:
"In 1813, at the height of its wartime strength, one fifth of the British Army was made up of foreign-born volunteers. Fewer than half of the Duke of Wellington's troops at Waterloo
were British born . . .
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