Napoleon's Officers

Forming part of the author’s ground-breaking series of books providing the essential reference point for the dress of Napoleon’s army, Napoleon’s Officers: Uniforms and Equipment will be the most important study to be presented in over 200 years of this perennially popular subject for wargamers, artists and historians.Relying primarily on period regulations and little used archive records held in the Archives Nationales and Service Historique du Armée de Terre in Paris, as well as contemporary illustrations and original items of uniforms, the author sets out to describe the dress of the Grande Armée’s staff in the most complete and accurate manner since the glory days of the First Empire.Napoleon’s Officers: Uniforms and Equipment examines the dress of generals of brigade and division, including the lavish and elaborate wardrobe of General Lasalle, the idol of the light cavalry. Among the uniforms described are those of the adjutant commandants, adjutants, secretaries and other often forgotten, but essential personnel who were responsible for the day-to-day management of the Grande Armée on campaign.The flamboyant dress of Berthier’s aides-de-camp is shown, with their scarlet…

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