HAT009 Other Ranks Model...895 US (995 CAN)French Shako, 1806 ModelThis was the first official model of the shako for Napoleon's army. It has leather re-enforcing strips at the side in the shape of chevrons. Originally they were made without chin scales but by 1807 most had them added...
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many of whom had risen through the ranks or from the lowest strata of the population. However, as the French Army became almost exclusively an instrument for carrying out Napoleon’s aggressive plans and as it suffered tremendous losses, its combat qualities declined considerably. (For example, ...
Warfare after the French Revolution: The Birth of the Modern? 'I loved him with all my soul, but I always felt a shiver when he spoke to me' was how Captain Coignet, veteran 'grouser', commissioned from the ranks by his master, taught to read by his peers, saw Napoleon from inside ...
The Representation of War in German Literature: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: overview This article explores the relationship between war and nationalism as it developed since the French revolution and the French revolutionary wars from the perspective of international political history. It shows...
The presence of officers leading and coordinating massed artillery formations was one of several important factors in the superior performance of the French artillery arm at this time. The Russians were no strangers to massed artillery, yet only in 1813 (very late in the wars) do their organizati...
(particularly the cavalry arm). This directly lead to the rise of German nationalism (seeded, as the authors point out, by republican French principles)and the eventual defection of allied German state after state from Napoleon's ranks leading to his ultimate defeat. This was in addition to ...
Mikhail Bogdanovich, Prince Barclay de Tolly was a Russian field marshal who was prominent in the Napoleonic Wars. Barclay was a member of a Scottish family that had settled in Livonia in the 17th century. Enlisting in the ranks of the Russian army in 17
Napoleon and his army were the dominant players of the Napoleonic Wars. The long series of wars took place on a scale never before seen. French power rose quickly, very quickly, conquering most of Europe; and collapsed after the disastrous invasion of Russia (1812). Napoleon and his famousGr...
The World Turned Upside Down: Female Soldiers in the French Armies of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. In Forrest, A., Hagemann, K. & Rendall, J. (eds) Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians. Experiences and Perceptions of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1790-1820. New York: Palgrave ...