Napoleon's Hussars and Chasseurs
Napoleon's Hussars and Chasseurs Small men, with big egos and mustaches, the hussars of Napoleon's army wore some of the most flamboyant and stylish uniforms of the epoch. Archive documents which…
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Napoleon's Hussars and Chasseurs
Small men, with big egos and mustaches, the hussars of Napoleon's army wore some of the most flamboyant and stylish uniforms of the epoch. Archive documents which have never been previously used to study the subject will be used for the first time: many of these documents have not been published in French and have never appeared as translations. The uniforms of the seventeen regiments of hussars are discussed in detail, along with the dress of their brethren in the thirty-two regiments of chasseurs cheval, with an emphasis on highly elaborate dress of the trumpeters.
Illustrated with contemporary illustrations, original items of uniform and reconstructions of uniforms, this is the definitive guide to the dress of the Napoleon's light cavalry.This is one of a series of ground-breaking books which will be the defacto study of this perennially popular subject for historians,
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