A
shocking number of military leaders have suffered from mental health
issues, even as they held the lives of the men they led in their hands.
At times ambition, politics, inheritance or the trauma of war have
created commanders with varying degrees of insanity.
The
Duke of Wellington was plagued by new officers thrust upon him by the
British government; men whose status came not from ability but from
their background and connections. None was worse than Sir William
Erskine.
