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...

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.

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...

TEXT IN FRENCH When you tackle the French artillery of the First Empire you must always take into account descriptions of the artillery of the Ancien Regime and the Revolution in detail, which is what this book does. The term "artillery" in the Middle Ages designated "all the machines the army uses".