Friedland, 1807

This latest Napoleonic album celebrates the great battle of Freidland, fought on June 14th, 1807 on Russian soil just south of the modern city of Kaliningrad. After twenty three hours of fighting, the French troops scored a decisive victory over Imperial Russia, and the resulting Treaty of Tilsit ma [...]
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This latest Napoleonic album celebrates the great battle of Freidland, fought on June 14th, 1807 on Russian soil just south of the modern city of Kaliningrad. After twenty three hours of fighting, the French troops scored a decisive victory over Imperial Russia, and the resulting Treaty of Tilsit marked the high point of Napoleon's Empire. This text follows the battle hour by hour, illustrating progress though a panoramic description and detailed maps. The individual officers and soldiers of all the armies are featured and all the uniforms of the troops are illustrated in full colour. This is a sequel to the same author's bestselling "Napoleonic histories of the Great Battles of the First Empire": "Austerlitz" (2-913903-71-1); "Jena-Auerstaedt" (2-908182-76-9); "Borodino-Moscova" (2-908182-96-3); "Wagram" (2-913903-33-9); "1814" (2-915239-56-8). It features 160 pieces of colour artwork specially created for this book by Andre Jouineau, plus 40 black and white illustrations.