This volume covers the last horse troops of the French Imperial Guard: gendarmes, honor guards and horse artillery, not forgetting the Lithuanian tartars, last proof of Napoleon s will to make out of his Guard a model of a Greater Europe."

The First Empire is responsible for giving us the most lasting picture we have of the Hussars. This volume deals with the Hussars (from the 9th to the 14th Regiment) for the period 1804-1812. There is a chapter given over to the 1812 Regulations which fixed the broad outlines and the 6 regiments are analyzed, together with the uniforms worn between 1812 and 1818.Andre Jouineau, figurines maker and collector, works with Histoire & Collections for more than 16 years. His uniforms plates, which have been fully carried out using data processing, have made him a pioneer in this field. He is the...

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.REVIEWS Of special interest to figure...