The British Army's size may cripple its ability to support NATO or fight a major war, ... In 1812, when it fought Napoleon and burned down Washington, DC, it had 246,000 soldiers.

Napoleon and the Napoleonic Wars loomed large in the minds of British people of the period and beyond. Cartoonists were obsessed with him. He is in the background of Jane Austen's novels.

The historian Dan Snow, who is including the story in his History Hit podcast, called the uniform “an absolutely amazing discovery revealing one of the most exciting unknown stories from the ...