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Accounts of the Battle of Austerlitz: Four perspectives of Napoleon’s Campaign of 1805
K. Stutterheim, Montgomery B. Gibbs, J.H. Henderson and Louis-François Lejeune
An account of Napoleon's most accomplished victory by an Austrian officer. The Battle of Austerlitz, fought on the 2nd of December 1805, was one of the most significant victories for Napoleon Bonap..
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With Napoleon’s Irish Legion: The Personal Experiences of an Officer of La Legion Irlandaise During the Napoleonic Wars, 1803-15—Memoirs of Miles Byrne
Fanny Byrne
Napoleon’s Irish troops and their battles, recounted by one of their officers Napoleon Bonaparte recruited to his causes the fighting men of nations which had suffered at the hands of the enemies o..
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Napoleon’s Marine Artillery: French Naval Gunners and the Campaign of 1813—The Recollections of Jean Louis Rieu, an Officer of the Marine Artillery with A Short History of the Marine Artillery, 1795-1815
Jean Louis Rieu, John H. Lewis (editor) & Robert Bassett (translator and editor)
A new personal account and history The Marine Artillery of Napoleon's army is possibly one of the least well known units in the military history of the First Empire of the French. During the later ..
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The Note-Books of Captain Coignet: the Recollections of a Soldier of the Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard During the Campaigns of the Napoleonic Era---Complete & Unabridged
Jean-Roch Coignet
The famous recollections of a soldier of Napoleon’s Imperial Guard Several English language translations of recollections written by the soldiers of Napoleon’s Grande Armee have become famous as th..
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With the Tsar Against Napoleon: the Recollections of Louis Rochechouart with Russian Forces During the Revolutionary &  Napoleonic Period
Louis Rochechouart
The incredible adventures of a French Royalist officer This is a personal account of the Napoleonic Wars from a rare perspective. The author was a French aristocrat and royalist who fled from Paris..
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Gonneville of the Cuirassiers: the Personal Recollections of a French Cavalryman of the First Empire
Countess De Mirabeau
At war for the Emperor with the horsemen  of the Cuirassiers Among students of the Napoleonic Wars there has long been an enthusiasm for the memoirs of soldiers of Napoleon’s army. Comparative..
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The Illustrated Captain Coignet: A Soldier of Napoleon’s Imperial Guard from the Italian Campaign to Russia and Waterloo, with 103 illustrations by Julien Le Blant
by Jean-Roch Coignet & Julien Le Blant (illustrator)
A superb edition of a famous French Napoleonic military memoir Captain Coignet's highly regarded recollections of his experiences as a grenadier of Napoleon's Imperial Guard campaigning on the batt..
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Thiébault: Soldier of Napoleon: Volume 1
Paul Thiébault
A Personal Account of the Revolutionary Wars and Conflicts of the French First Empire
A two volume narrative of the Napoleonic Wars by a highly regarded general Personal narratives of the careers of Napoleon’s soldiers of the First Empire are not common in English translation nor ar..
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Thiébault: Soldier of Napoleon: Volume 2
Paul Thiébault
A Personal Account of the Revolutionary Wars and Conflicts of the French First Empire
A two volume narrative of the Napoleonic Wars by a highly regarded general Personal narratives of the careers of Napoleon’s soldiers of the First Empire are not common in English translation nor ar..
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Captain François
Charles François
From Valmy, 1792 to Waterloo, 1815—the Journal of the Military Career of a French Soldier of the Napoleonic Age
An authentic journal of a French soldier through many campaigns The young Charles François rushed to fight for the cause of revolutionary France seeing action at Valmy. This was but the first of ma..
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The Adventures of Captain Parquin
Denis Charles Parquin
The Recollections of a French Cavalry Officer of the Chasseurs During the Napoleonic Era
The gripping memoirs of a cavalry officer of the First Empire This is the story of a remarkable French cavalryman of the Napoleonic era, Denis Charles Parquin, an officer of the Chasseurs a Cheval...
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Marmont on Warfare
Auguste de Marmont & R. P. Dunn-Pattison
An Appraisal of the Military Art by One of Napoleon’s Marshals with a Biography of the Author—On Modern Armies by Auguste de Marmont & Auguste de Marmont, Duke of Ragusa by R. P. Dunn-Pattison
Warfare from the perspective of one of Napoleon’s marshals Napoleon Bonaparte, for all his many personality flaws, is generally regarded as a genius of military craft. His innovative grand tactics ..
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Captain Labaume
Eugene Labaume & T. Dundas Pillans
A French Officer’s First Hand Account of the Invasion of Russia & Retreat from Moscow
An indispensible eyewitness account of the destruction of Napoleon’s Grand Army The author of this remarkable book was an officer of the French Napoleonic army at the time of the emperor’s ultimate..
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Chronicles of the First Empire
Émile Marco St. Hilaire & Hippolyte Bellangé
Personal Recollections of the Napoleonic Era with Illustrations by Hippolyte Bellangé
A view of the Napoleonic epoch by the Imperial Guard’s historian The French author of this interesting book, Emile Marco de Sainte-Hilaire was a well known writer of novels and anecdotal history du..
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The Enemy at Trafalgar
Edward Fraser
The Battle From the Perspective of the French & Spanish Navies and Their Sailors
The men and ships who fought Nelson Avid readers and students of the Napoleonic Wars are often disappointed at the paucity of information translated into English on the subject of French forces. Th..
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