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Beschreibung

Mounted upon their huge black horses, the Mounted Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard were the senior heavy cavalry unit of the French army and were never defeated in battle. Their long list of battle honors earned them the nicknames 'the Giants' and 'the Gods'.

In this latest addition to the Osprey mini-series on the Imperial Guard, author Ronald Pawly tells the story of this famous unit using unparalleled documentary and pictorial sources. Along with detailed artwork depicting the unit's colorful uniforms, this book gives a history of the unit's organization and record drawn from original letters, orders, and inspection reports that still survive in the Paris Archives. Interspersed are the stories of some of the individuals that served in the Mounted Grenadiers and helped to make it one of the most storied units to have served during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815).

Mounted upon their huge black horses, the Mounted Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard were the senior heavy cavalry unit of the French army and were never defeated in battle. Their long list of battle honors earned them the nicknames 'the Giants' and 'the Gods'.

In this latest addition to the Osprey mini-series on the Imperial Guard, author Ronald Pawly tells the story of this famous unit using unparalleled documentary and pictorial sources. Along with detailed artwork depicting the unit's colorful uniforms, this book gives a history of the unit's organization and record drawn from original letters, orders, and inspection reports that still survive in the Paris Archives. Interspersed are the stories of some of the individuals that served in the Mounted Grenadiers and helped to make it one of the most storied units to have served during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815).

Über den Autor
Ronald Pawly, born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1956, is a member of several international societies for Napoleonic studies. His forté is research in the field of military portraiture. He contributed to two major French reference works, Répertoire Mondial des Souvenirs Napoléonien and Dictionnaire des Colonels de Napoléon. In 1998 he published his first major work, The Red Lancers - Anatomy of a Napoleonic Regiment.
Zusammenfassung
An examination of the senior heavy cavalry unit of Napoleon's Army, this book is the 7th of 9 titles covering the Imperial Guard.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Consular Guard - Marengo, 1800
The Imperial Guard: conditions for admittance - organization - uniforms - personnel
Operations, 1801-1814: the Grenadiers à Cheval at Austerlitz, 1805; Colonel Lepic at Eylau, 1807
Russia, 1812
Germany and France, 1813-14
The First Restoration
The Hundred Days, 1815

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781846034497
ISBN-10: 1846034493
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Pawly, Ronald
Illustrator: Courcelle, Patrice
Hersteller: Bloomsbury USA
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 246 x 183 x 8 mm
Von/Mit: Ronald Pawly
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.11.2009
Gewicht: 0,159 kg
Artikel-ID: 134086609

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