FIRST EMPIRE

An Untold History of France in 100 Maps An Untold History of France in 100 Maps 2
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The history of France mapped, from prehistory to the present day, and narrated by Jean Sévillia. In 5 parts — " Origins ", " The Kingdom of France ", " The French Nation ", " Facing the Trials of the 20th Century " and " Towards the France of Tomorrow " — and in 100 previously unpublished and richly detailed maps, from the principal prehistoric sites to...
EPOPEES: The Cuirassiers, from Origins to 1918 EPOPEES: The Cuirassiers, from Origins to 1918 2
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This work invites you to discover the cuirassiers, distinguished cavalrymen who traversed the history of France from the 18th century to the end of the First World War, both witnesses and heroic actors in the victorious battles and dark defeats of the French army. Combining epic accounts, meticulous descriptions of uniforms and remarkable illustrations,...
LINE INFANTRY Volume 2 - 1814-1830
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The Line Infantry bore the brunt of the final years of the Empire, from the campaign in France to Waterloo, before radically changing its face in 1815, at the time of the Second Restoration. Indeed, infantry regiments temporarily disappeared in favour of departmental legions before adopting the uniform whose colours would not change again until the Great...
The Cuirassiers, Consulate and Empire - Organisation and... The Cuirassiers, Consulate and Empire - Organisation and... 2
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The Cuirassiers, Consulate and Empire Drawing on the lessons of his success at Marengo during the Italian campaign of 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte took advantage of the three years of peace that followed to reorganise his army. Rationalising the composition of his mounted troops, he progressively created, between October 1801 and September 1803, a new...
The German Failure on the Marne 30 May–13 June 1918
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This book is the translation of the work entitled Growing Difficulties 1918 – Futile Struggle in Front of Compiègne, Villers-Cotterêts and Reims, volume 33 of the series « Die Schlachten des Weltkrieges », published by the Reichsarchiv in 1930. No French translation of this book has ever been published, even though it had been translated after the war by...
In Search of the Lost Manuscripts of Chevalier Allent...
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In 1805, Chevalier Allent published, at the request of General Marescot, a Histoire du corps impérial du génie, intended as a first part covering origins through the end of the reign of Louis XIV, and calling for a continuation. In 1806, he appended to the état du corps impérial du génie a Précis de l'histoire des arts et instructions militaires in...
Memoirs of a Grenadier of the Grande Armée
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The military life of Jean-François Cowez under the Empire (1809–1815) Through the previously unpublished account of Jean-François Cowez, we enter the grand sweep of History through a side door left ajar by a young soldier of the First Empire. He recounts numerous anecdotes which, throughout his manuscript, reflect a life containing more days of suffering...
THE HISTORY OF THE MARINE INFANTRY THROUGH THEIR UNIFORMS THE HISTORY OF THE MARINE INFANTRY THROUGH THEIR UNIFORMS 2
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On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Bazeilles in 1870 — which is also the feast day of the Marine Infantry — the EMSOME (État-major spécialisé pour l'Outre-mer et l'Étranger) publishes with Histoire & Collections this work, which retraces the history of the Marine Infantry, formerly the Colonial Troops, through their uniforms....
ITALIAN CAMPAIGN 1796-1797 - From Nice to Leoben, an...
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The virtuosity of a general with no real experience of war — that is above all what one remembers of the Italian Campaign. Indeed, Bonaparte's genius was to astonish the world and, two centuries later, still arouses the same fascination. Who could fail to marvel at this young general who, through the application of new military principles he had pondered...
TILSIT IN 1807 – WAS IT THE COLD THAT DESTROYED THE...
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Translated into French for the first time, the previously unpublished account of the meeting on the Niemen between Tsar Alexander I and Napoleon, and of the fraternisation celebrations between Russian and French soldiers, by a Russian officer present on the scene. In the second part, an essay by that same witness, Denis Davydov, who, some years after...
LINE INFANTRY Volume 1 - 1776–1810
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For Napoleon, "the infantry is the soul of the army". It did indeed comprise the greater part of the combatants under arms. We shall examine closely these "pousse-cailloux" — foot soldiers who tramped across Europe in every direction for nearly a quarter of a century. With the exception of the particular case of the Imperial Guard, the French infantry...
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