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Napoleon's Scouts of the Imperial Guard

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Men-at-Arms - French Revolutionary War/Napoleonic Wars - France

MSRP old price: $19.00


Product Info

Title
Napoleon's Scouts of the Imperial Guard
Publisher
Category
Author
Ronald Pawly
Publish Year
2006
Pages
48
Dimensions
8x10x.25"
NKG Part #
2147398508
MFG. Part #
OSPMAA433
Type
Softcover
Series
MAA433

Description

Driven out of Germany after his defeat at Leipzig in 1813, Napoleon seemed to face disaster. Some 345,000 Allied troops were converging on France from the east; and Napoleon had only about 80,000 men. Most of his veterans had been killed in Russia and Germany, and he was short of cavalry to counter the swarms of Cossacks. For his last and possibly most brilliant campaign, Napoleon raised three regiments of mounted Scouts for his Imperial Guard. Through the story of these units the reader can follow Napoleon's dazzling maneuvers in the campaign of 1814; and their widely varied uniforms are reconstructed in meticulously researched color plates.