As witnesses to History’s ups and downs, flags - and in particular infantry flags - reveal how short-lived ideas and their symbols can be when they are the unfortunate victims of auto-da-fés thought up by different regimes. Today museums have only managed to preserve a few rare specimens and the period texts and documents are mostly incomplete. This is particularly true for the Army of Italy flags, those of the volunteers and those of the half-brigades from 1794-1803, which are still mainly unknown to this day. Faced with this type of major difficulty, and if a coherent picture of the flags is to be painted, a whole gamut of particularly inescapable assumptions has to be made. Nevertheless since historical exactitude does not allow for even the smallest unverifiable interpretations, it is up to us to warn our readers that the flags illustrated here are those that our research has enabled us to reproduce. Each individual regimental history has been established so as to follow the trail these flags left as they changed from regiment to half-brigade. These histories are not always able follow the rank numbering in the corps since there was often no direct association between them. For the reader to find his way around, an asterisk designates a battalion which was in at the foundation of the new regiment, and also shows that this unit’s flag was most certainly adopted provisionally.

French Infantry Flags: From 1786 to the End of the First Empire

History

Letrun, Ludovic

Europe

Histoire and Collections

Our troopers are now in the Emperor Napoleon’s service. This second volume follows them as they brigade with the Hussars in all the great theaters of operation at the beginning of the Empire. Here we deal with the missions given over to the light cavalry before, during, and after the battle. As for the uniform part, the book shows how their uniform evolved from being a mere copy of the Hussats’ to becoming with time totally specific to the Chasseur a Cheval Arm.

Chasseurs à Cheval 1779-1815: Volume 2 (Officers and Soldiers of)

Mongin, Jean

Military

According to Pere Daniel the Dragoon corp. got its origins under the reign of Henry II, with the mounted arquebusiers, created in 1554. Those were mostly small units of infantrymen, traveling on horses and firing when dismounted.The nickname dragoon actually appeared later, under the reign of Henri III, and designates as well mounted arquebusiers, carabiniers and musketeers.In this book, you will discover the magnificent uniforms of those cavalrymen, from the first XVIIth century wars, to the battles led by Louis XV's generals.66 plates illustrated 200 horsemen and 60 flags.REVIEWS With 2015 being the 200th anniversary of the BattleWaterloo, this and the other books in this series will make great presents for those interested in the period and of special interest to figure modelers who want to get their figures painted correctly for a specific units and time. ... a first class reference on France in the Napoleonic EraMilitary Modeling

French Dragoons: Volume 1 - 1669-1749 (Officers and Soldiers of)

After discovering the artillery pieces and the equipment used by the Foot Artillery at the end of the Ancien Regime, the Revolution and the First Empire, discover the men of the “Arme Savante” (the knowledgeable arm) who moved their guns around and served them on horseback. The mobile artillery, then the light artillery and finally the Horse Artillery was a new weapon which announced the changes in the centuries to come… Just like the Artillery Train which, with the First Empire, finally grew up, to the age of regulations. This was the organization of Mr. de Gribeauval, the Inspector of Artillery, set up slowly over nearly thirty years and which remained more or less as it was until 1825.

French Artillery and the Gribeauval System: Volume 2 - 1786-1815 (Officers and Soldiers of)

In this second half of the 18th century, military tactics changed, going from static siege tactics to rapid maneuvers, giving the cavalry a predominant role again on the field of battle. The changes in uniform, organization and tactics of the Dragoon regiments evolved over three periods. The main corps gradually joined with the cavalry, becoming a key element in the new strategy of movement. The first period, included ordinances from 1750 and 1757, and mainly improved the troop’s comfort. The second period of change reorganized and unified the corps. Finally the last period provided the republic with the most modern corps and army in the world.

French Dragoons: Volume 2 - 1750-1762 (Officers and Soldiers of)

Letrun, Veronique

With this last volume, pontoneers, permanent gunners or Coastguards gunners, too often left in shadow – as the materials and the guns which they serve and operate – occupy the center stage. A chapter is dedicated to the Team Train which, although not being a part of the artillery, deserves to appear in this vast panorama of the “Armes savantes”. This was the organization of Mr de Gribeauval, the Inspector of Artillery, set up slowly over nearly thirty years and which remained more or less as it was until 1825 and which is the object of these three volumes.

French Artillery and the Gribeauval System: Vol. 3, 1786-1815 (Officers and Soldiers of)

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