ENGLISH

Napoleon's Cuirassiers & Carabiniers

By Angus McBride , Emir Bukhari

Book information

Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Year
1977
ISBN
0850450969, 9780850450965
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8067904 bytes)
Series
Men-At-Arms Series, No 64
Pages
48\50
Time added
2012-07-07 11:45:28

Description

Owing to the heavy casualties suffered by the Carabiniers in the 1809 campaign, the Emperor decreed that they should be armored to the same advantage as the Cuirassiers. In this way the two corps drew together in being the only troops of the Grande Armeé who were armoured, while at the same time they diverged in breaking away from their traditionally similar dress. Emir Bukhari does a splendid job of examining the uniforms and equipment of Napoleon's Cuirassiers and Carabiniers of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815), in a text complemented throughout by numerous illustrations and diagrams including eight full page color plates by the ever popular Angus McBride.

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