E.P. Thompson, „The Making of the English Working Class“.
It is admittedly a specific cherry picked point in time at which this was true, but useful to illustrate the issue.
I had a look out of curiosity. The book has:
>“In the summer of 1812 there were no fewer than 12,000 troops in the disturbed counties, a greater force than Wellington had under his command in the Peninsula.”
But for that year Wikipedia has
>Wellington's 48,500-man army... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Salamanca
I had a look out of curiosity. The book has:
>“In the summer of 1812 there were no fewer than 12,000 troops in the disturbed counties, a greater force than Wellington had under his command in the Peninsula.”
But for that year Wikipedia has
>Wellington's 48,500-man army... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Salamanca