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Tango01 ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 20 Jun 2024 5:23 p.m. PST |
… of the Cuirassiers and Carabiniers, 1805-1815 "Created during the Peace of Amiens, the nineteen regiments of cuirassiers that existed during the course of the 1e Empire were, after the Imperial Guard, perhaps the most famous and recognisable soldiers of the epoch. This book explores the long gestation of clothing and equipping the cuirassiers, the development of the arm from twelve regiments to twenty-one – if we include the carabiniers from 1811 – and how their clothing evolved across the period. As well as assessing the curiassiers, the story of the evolution of the uniforms of the carabiniers is also told. Much ink has been spilt on the two regiments and their uniforms, yet, as with the cuirassiers, precious little archive research has been carried out.
This is one of a series of ground-breaking books which will be the defacto study of this perennially popular subject for historians, researchers, wargamers, re-enactors and artists. Using archive records to ‘set the record straight', as well as contemporary illustrations and original items of uniforms, the author sets out to describe the uniform of every regiment of Napoleon's army. Using archive sources found in the Archives Nationales and Service Historique du Armee de Terre in Paris, the author's unrivalled research over a period of twenty years, will reveal exactly how, for the first time in over 200 years, Napoleon's army was mounted, clothed and equipped…"
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Tango01 ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 20 Jun 2024 10:32 p.m. PST |
French at Waterloo: Eyewitness Accounts: 2nd and 6th Corps, Cavalry, Artillery, Foot Guard and Medical Services link Armand
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Tango01 ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 21 Jun 2024 10:00 p.m. PST |
The Russian Patriotic War of 1812 Volume 1: The Russian Official History
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