Terry, of course nothing personal. I too doubt that the British Generals were any better or worse than their peers- static trench warfare with suicidal charges seems to have been the norm. I guess that's always the trouble with hindsight... context gets forgotten and we judge by today's standards.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
