Detailed drawings of the uniforms and insignia of the first truly mounted infantrymen in the French Army If one attributes the mounted infantry to the creation of "Fischer's voluntary infantry company," as has traditionally been done, then one would have to wait until 1757 for the first units to be[...]
The Chasseurs a cheval, a type of French light cavalry, date from 1743 when an independent unit (Fischer's Volunteer Company of Chasseurs) was raised during the Austrian War of Succession to counter the pandurs and Croats employed as irregulars by the Austrian army. Originally a mixed corps of light[...]
With this third and final volume, the authors present, regiment by regiment, uniforms and equipment of the light cavalry in the last years of Empires and beginning of the Restoration. Significant changes in the uniform and equipment are described in the list and a significant portion is left to dist[...]
This work presents in detail the uniforms of the foot artillery between 1786 and 1815. Formal in style, and indeed austere, the uniforms illustrated here were the very ones worn by those who participated in during the most crucial and of the Empire. (71 plates including 29 by Ludovic Letrun) An impo[...]
Volume Two in a new series from two established experts which looks in detail at the uniforms of the elite cavalry troops of Napoleon I's Imperial Guard - from Marengo to Waterloo. This second volume deals with the chasseurs a cheval, Mameluke, grenadiers and dragoons - the cavaliers of 'the old gua[...]
The first of a new sub-series in Histoire and Collection's growing set of full color graphic books depicting everything from Uniforms to Aircraft types, in minute detail with many varients.This new book concentrates on the 12 inch figurine as a collectors item and their many variations Illustrated t[...]