Yes, but also that the British military was hardly a formidable force on land.
“...the British military was hardly a formidable force on land.”
Wellesley sure improved things in the next 20-30 years.
They were always very well trained, but just much smaller than most of their continental competitors because Britain focused on its sea power. The Zulu wars and then the Boer War showed the limitations of that approach. In 1914 the Imperial General Staff already told the government that in any big European war the 100,000 men of the professional British army would be gone in a few months, and so it was.