Costumes of the Armies engaged at Waterloo: Volume 4: French Army

The fourth volume of the Uniforms of the Armies at Waterloo series focuses on the French Armee du Nord under Napoleon I, despite its short existence after his return to the imperial throne. It includes evaluations of Charles Lyall's uniform plates, with a special focus on the French Imperial Guard. The order of battle and supplementary descriptions of the Northern Army's units are provided, along with two maps from William Siborne's Atlas to History of the Waterloo Campaign. The description of the Battle of Waterloo is continued until the French retreat from the battlefield.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 132 pages
Publication date: 19 July 2022
Publisher: Zeughausverlag GmbH

The fourth volume of the series on the Uniforms of the Armies at Waterloo concludes the series on the Allied side, focusing on the French Armee du Nord under the command of Napoleon I. Despite its short existence after Napoleon's return to France's imperial throne, the Northern Army consisted of numerous experienced soldiers from his earlier campaigns, with the caveat that its uniforms did not always comply with regulations due to the army's rapid mobilization. As in the previous volumes, the two editors, Markus Gartner and Markus Stein, take the opportunity to evaluate Charles Lyall's uniform plates by using the current knowledge of how the French troops actually appeared in 1815. Due to the special status attributed to the French Imperial Guard, especially in England, numerous Lyall plates deal with Guard units. However, some of the units depicted had already been disbanded before 1815, but the editors decided to publish them in this volume as well, along with a short commentary. As in the other volumes, to complete the visual images in the plates, this one provides the order of battle as well as supplementary descriptions of the organization and uniforms of the Northern Army's units deployed in the Netherlands. Finally, the description of the Battle of Waterloo, begun in the first volume and continued in the following volumes, is taken up again and continued until the end with the French retreat from the battlefield. This description is accompanied by two more maps from William Siborne's Atlas to History of the Waterloo Campaign.

Dimension: 297 x 210 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783963600449