SNC023-C
Consignment
This is a Consignment sale figure we are offering. It comes in bubble wrap with original Osprey booklet.
Del Prado SNC023 Lt. General Stapleton Cotton, Peninsula, 1812
Up to the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars the most usual, though not the only, method of obtaining a commission in the British army was by purchase. Thereafter, further promotion was either by purchase of the next step in rank, automatically by seniority without purchase, or by the patronage of the commander-in-chief. This applied up to and including the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Above that rank, promotion was entirely by seniority, the date on which an officer achieved his lieutenant- colonelcy determining his seniority for life.