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| Author | : André Jouineau |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Military uniforms |
| ISBN | : 9782913903241 |
This volume deals with infantry, grenadiers, light infantrymen and artillerymen - the soldiers of the old guard of Emperor Napoleon I.
| Author | : André Jouineau |
| Publisher | : Histoire & Collections |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Military uniforms |
| ISBN | : 9782913903456 |
This series takes a parallel approach to show both regulation and non-regulation uniforms worn by the officers and soldiers of the armies throughout History, from the Ancient World to the present day. In this second volume, more than 300 colour silhouettes plus orbats and diagrams illustrate the first cavalry troops created by the Emperor inside its elite phalanx: the horse grenadiers, chasseurs, mameluks and dragoons
| Author | : Philip Haythornthwaite |
| Publisher | : Osprey Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2000-04-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781841761312 |
Napoleon's Imperial Guard was the elite corps of the French Army. The Guard differed from the guard corps of other European sovereigns of the period, in that its function was rather functional than ceremonial, and its expansion was such that it came to represent a considerable portion of France's military establishment. By supplying personnel to other units, it functioned as a training school for the remainder of the army, yet the elite status of the guard did little to protect its soldiers from the rigours of combat in the brutal Napoleonic Wars.
| Author | : Guy Dempsey |
| Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
| Total Pages | : 462 |
| Release | : 2016-02-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1784380199 |
This superb and comprehensive book details the foreign units which formed such an important part of Napoleon's forces. It examines each non-French unit in turn, giving an overview of the unit's origins, its organizational and combat history, its uniforms and standards, and details of the unit's eventual fate. Colourful accounts, taken from contemporary reports and memoirs, emphasize the qualities of the unit and throw light on what life was like for many of the foreign soldiers recruited into the Grande Armée. In total more than 100 different foreign units that served in the French Army are investigated in detail in this ambitious publication. Some foreign units fought and flourished throughout the Consulate and Empire, whilst others lasted for just a few months. Covers Polish, German, Swiss, Italian, Spanish, and other units in the French Army and presents a combat history and details uniforms for each regiment. Napoleon's Mercenaries is the best single-volume study of this aspect of Napoleon s army and a vital reference for every Napoleonic enthusiast. Little can be found on the foreign units that were an integral part of the French army ... For a long time a gap has existed, but now Napoleon s Mercenaries fills this gap. Robert Burnham, Napoleonic Series
| Author | : Charles Dalton |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 1890 |
| Genre | : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Thomas Dodman |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2018-01-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 022649294X |
In What Nostalgia Was, historian Thomas Dodman traces the history of clinical "nostalgia" from when it was first coined in 1688 to describe deadly homesickness until the late nineteenth century, when it morphed into the benign yearning for a lost past we are all familiar with today. Dodman explores how people, both doctors and sufferers, understood nostalgia in late seventeenth-century Swiss cantons (where the first cases were reported) to the Napoleonic wars and to the French colonization of North Africa in the latter 1800s. A work of transnational scope over the longue duree, the book is an intellectual biography of a "transient mental illness" that was successively reframed according to prevailing notions of medicine, romanticism, and climatic and racial determinism. At the same time, Dodman adopts an ethnographic sensitivity to understand the everyday experience of living with nostalgia. In so doing, he explains why nostalgia was such a compelling diagnosis for war neuroses and generalized socioemotional disembeddedness at the dawn of the capitalist era and how it can be understood as a powerful bellwether of the psychological effects of living in the modern age.
| Author | : Paul L. Dawson |
| Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
| Total Pages | : 653 |
| Release | : 2019-08-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1526701936 |
The author of Battle for Paris 1815 examines the uniforms and equipment of the infantry of Napoleon’s Imperial Guard. From its origins as the Consular Guard of the French Republic, and as Napoleon’s personal bodyguard, the Imperial Guard developed into a force of all arms numbering almost 100,000 men. Used by Napoleon as his principal tactical reserve, the Guard was engaged only sparingly, being deployed at the crucial moment of battle to turn the tide of victory in favor of the Emperor of the French. Naturally, the Imperial Guard has been the subject of numerous books over many decades, yet there has never been a publication that has investigated the uniforms and equipment of the infantry of the Imperial Guard with such detail and precision. The author has collected copies of almost all the surviving documents relating to the Guard, which includes a vast amount of material regarding the issuing of dress items, in some instances down to company level. This information is supported by an unrivaled collection of illustrations, many of which have never been published before, as well as images of original items of equipment held in museums and private collections across the globe. In addition, the renowned military artist, Keith Rocco, has produced a series of unique paintings commissioned exclusively for this book. This glorious book is, and will remain, unsurpassed as the standard work on the clothing and equipment of the Imperial Guard, and will not only be invaluable to historians, but also reenactors, wargamers and modelers. It is one of the most important publications ever produced on this most famous of military formations.
| Author | : Alan I. Forrest |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Electronic books |
| ISBN | : 0195059379 |
Between the outbreak of war with Austria in 1792 and Napoleon's final debacle in 1814, France remained almost continously at war, recruiting in the process some two to three million frenchmen--a level of recruitment unknown to previous generations and widely resented as an attack on the liberties of rural communities. Forrest challenges the notion of a nation heroically rushing to arms by examining the massive rates of desertion and avoidance of service as well as their consequences on French society--on military campaigns and the morale of armies, on political opinion at home, on the social fabric of local villages, and on the Napoleonic dream of bringing about a coherent and centralized state.
