THE FRENCH IMPERIAL GUARD 1800-1815: Volume 3 - From the Mounted Troops to the Royal Guard

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Oversized at 11.7x 8.3 inches with 1,000+ illustrations -- Much enlarged version of early works.

The Imperial Guard forms a small army in the Grande Armee. This is a study of its organization, like that of its uniforms and its equipment.

Volume 3: Napoleon gave special attention to this splendid unit - the Imperial Guard - and it became sort of little army within the Grande Armee. This study of its organization is here at its most erudite, like the one on the uniforms and equipment. Discover the uniforms, the equipment, and the weapons used by all those Grognards, who were launched into a battle as a last resort, at the decisive moment.

Explains how the Guard was organized into Old, Middle and Young Guards. Shows the colonel-generals, the grenadiers, the chasseurs a pied, fusiliers, velites, flanqueurs, wards, workmen, sappers, doctors, magistrates and foot gunners. Includes the last mounted units of the Guard, the follow-up units, the Horse Artillery, the Artillery trains and teams, the Health Service, the Guard HQ Staff but also the Emperor's Household, the Emperor and the first uniforms of the Royal Guard. A compilation of two dossiers published in the fifth and sixth issues of the magazine Soldat - is the new, improved, entirely revised and re-drawn larger version (more than 50% more characters) than the previous work published several years ago now by the authors.