Grenadiers a Cheval

Dress of Imperial Guard Sapeurs , 1813-1815 For his famous series of plates of the French Army of the Napoleonic period, Martinet of Pa...

If the life of a Cavalry Trooper in barracks was "Terrible hard", then life on campaign was all that - and more. Not only were th...

Rudyard Kippling famously quipped " A Soldier's life is terrible hard" - especially so for a Cavalry Trooper. Not only had to...

The uniform worn by the Sapeurs of the Grenadiers a Pied is supposedly well known, but from primary archival sources the uniform may not be...

Perhaps one of the enduring myths - and certainly images - of the Napoleonic army is the 'brave little drummer boy', perhaps be...

From the Manuel Complete de Sous-Officier "It is boiled in water, so as to make it white after having finely seived it, it dilutes t...

The French Army probably did not look as we expect it to - films such as "Waterloo", reenactments and monumental paintings show t...