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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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 ...
French forces retreating from Russia suffered further heavy losses at the Battle of Berezina. /The Print Collector/Getty Background: Napoleon and his wars Born on the island of Corsica in 1769, Napoleon rapidly rose through the ranks of the French military and seized power with...
All you need to know about the armies, infantry, cavalry and artillery that fought in the Napoleonic Wars between 1792 and 1815. Napoleon Bonaparte's French troops, his enemies from Britain, Austria, Russia, Prussia, their uniforms, weapons, leaders, slang terms, range and accuracy of weapons...
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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...
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...
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 ...
Maximilien Foy was a French military leader, writer, and statesman who rose through the ranks of the imperial army during the Napoleonic Wars (1800–15) and then emerged as a leading spokesman of the liberal opposition during the early years after the Bo