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Costumes of the Armies engaged at Waterloo - Volume 4: French Army (Paperback)
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Costumes of the Armies engaged at Waterloo - Volume 4: French Army (Paperback)
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This fourth volume concludes the series on the 'Uniforms of the
Armies at Waterloo'. After the previous volumes presented the
Allied side, this fourth part deals with its opponents, the French
Armee du Nord under the command of Napoleon I. This Northern Army,
despite its short existence after Napoleon's return to France's
imperial throne, consisted of numerous, experienced soldiers from
his earlier campaigns, with the caveat that its uniforms did not
always comply with regulations due to the army's rapid
mobilization. As in the three previous volumes, the two editors
Markus Gartner and Markus Stein take the opportunity to evaluate
Charles Lyall's uniform plates by using the current knowledge of
how the French troops actually appeared in 1815. Due to the special
status attributed to the French Imperial Guard, especially in
England, numerous Lyall plates deal with Guard units. However, some
of the units depicted had already been disbanded before 1815 but
the editors decided to publish them in this volume as well, along
with a short commentary. As in the other volumes, to complete the
visual images in the plates, this one provides the order of battle
as well as supplementary descriptions of the organization and
uniforms of the Northern Army's units deployed in the Netherlands.
Finally, the description of the Battle of Waterloo, begun in the
first volume and continued in the following volumes, is taken up
again and continued until the end with the French retreat from the
battlefield. This description is accompanied by two more maps from
William Siborne's Atlas to History of the Waterloo Campaign.
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