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Émigré and Foreign Troops in British Service (2): 1803-15

By René Chartrand , Patrice Courcelle

Book information

Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Year
2000
ISBN
1855328593, 9781855328594
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5989387 bytes)
Series
Men-at-Arms
Pages
48\51
Time added
2012-07-08 03:41:49

Description

Following his study of the astonishing range of French Royalist and foreign mercenary units employed by Britain in the period 1793–1802 of the French Revolutionary Wars (Men-at-Arms 328), the author describes - often for the first time in an English language publication - the part played by their successors during the crucial years of the Napoleonic Wars. He covers not only relatively well-recorded units, such as Roll’s, Meuron’s and Watteville’s Swiss corps, but also the unjustly neglected Italians, Corsicans and Greeks, and such exotica as the African and Ceylon regiments. Uniform details of nearly 40 corps are based on impressive primary research, and this book and its companion volume make a genuinely new contribution to Napoleonic studies.

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