Download or read book Advancing with the Army written by Marcus Ackroyd and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed biographical study of the members of the army medical service during the Revolution and Napoleonic wars that charts their background and life both in and outside the army. It demonstrates how a group of medical practitioners from relatively humble backgrounds could use social contacts and experience forged in the army to become an established part of the educated British imperial elite.