Napoleon's Elite Cavalry: Cavalry of the Imperial Guard, 1804-1815

Description: London: Greenhill Books. 1999. First edition, folio, pp. 208, 36cm. Illust, frontis, Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Clean with some rubbed off color along the bottom edge. In clean, illustrated DJ wrapped in Brodart. One tear along top edge about 2 cms long. Inside text is clean, vivid and bright. "This beautiful new book brings together, for the very first time, ninety-one color plates by the celebrated artist Lucien Rousselot. The plates, housed in the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, illustrate Napoleon's key Guard cavalry units: the Dragoons (25 plates), a regiment established in 1806; the Chasseurs (27 plates), formed from Napoleon's own personal bodyguard of Guides; the Polish Light Horse (25 plates), the first foreign regiment to be part of the Imperial Guard; and the Grenadiers (13 plates), the most feared of all the French army's regiments. In addition there is one vivid picture of Napoleon, wearing his favorite uniform-that of the Chasseurs.""Carefully researched by leading French exponent of the history of uniforms, Lucien Rousselot, from primary sources, including surviving uniforms and official documents, and brilliantly executed, these paintings are the very best of their type and superb examples of military art."

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