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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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Sergeant Fricasse of the 127th Demi-Brigade: a French Soldier of the Revolutionary Period on Campaign, 1792-1802
Jacques Fricasse Edited and translated by John H. Lewis
With the armies of the Sambre & Meuse, Rhine & Moselle and Italy, 1792-1802 There are a number of translated French accounts that tell of the wartime experiences of the soldiers of Napoleon..
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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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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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Mameluke Ali
Louis Étienne Saint-Denis
With Napoleon from the Tuileries to St. Helena
~~Recollections of Napoleon’s French Mameluke Napoleon Bonaparte’s adventure in the Middle East brought him in close contact with the Mamelukes—the dominant military caste of Egypt at the close of ..
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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 Long Siege
Louis Antoine François de Marchangy & Simon Askenazy
Danzig, 1813—The Siege of Dantzic, in 1813 by Louis Antoine François de Marchangy & Dantzig and Poland: The Background & History of the Siege of Dantzig, 1813 (Extract) by Simon Askenazy
The year long struggle for a great sea-port Danzig (modern day Gdansk) is a city which, by virtue of it’s unique geographical position, was destined to be coveted and so became the focus of conflic..
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A Journal of the Russian Campaign of 1812
Raymond A. P. J. de Montesquiou-Fezensac
An Eyewitness Account by an Aide-de-Camp to Berthier and Later Colonel of the 4th Regiment of Infantry in Napoleon’s Army
An essential first hand account of a French officer of the First Empire Napoleon, at the height of his unstoppable hubris, attacked Russia and marched his Grande Armee thousands of miles towards it..
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The Journal of the Three Days of the Battle of Waterloo
An Eyewitness
An Account of the Campaign of 1815 from Within the French Army
A telling account from a soldier of France This anonymously written account tells of the experiences of a French soldier during the Waterloo campaign. It of course recounts the events of those mome..
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Soldiers of Napoleon
A. J. Doisy De Villargennes & Arthur Chuquet

The 100th title in our Eyewitness to War Series

The Experiences of the Men of the French First Empire
Under the Eagles by A. J. Doisy De Villargennes
Voices of 1812 by Arthur Chuquet
The 100th title in our Eyewitness to War Series Accounts of the men of the First Empire Writings of the experiences of Napoleon's foot and horse soldiers which have been translated into English ..
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Marine of Revolution & Consulate
Moreau de Jonnès
The Recollections of a French Soldier of the Revolutionary Wars 1791-1804
A soldier of revolution The wars of the French Revolution are justifiably dominated by the masterful figure of Napoleon. His rapid rise to power, initially as general, then as First Consul and ulti..
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A Conscript for Empire
Philippe as told to Johann Christian Maempel
The Experiences of a Young German Conscript During the Napoleonic Wars
A young soldier thrown to the mercies of total war This is remarkable story of a young Rhinelander caught up in the whirlwind of war that raged in Europe in the early 19th century. As one of the sm..
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Sergeant Guillemard: the Man Who Shot Nelson?
Robert Guillemard
A Soldier of the Infantry of the French Army of Napoleon on Campaign Throughout Europe
Robert Guillemard was one of those unusual people (a real life example of a character type now very popular in fiction) who found himself engaging with remarkable people during important historical ev..
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Napoleon's Imperial Guard: from Marengo to Waterloo
J. T. Headley
As with so much of what represented Napoleonic France, the Imperial Guard could trace its existence and spirit back to the Roman Empire of old. Where the Grand Army could look back to affiliate itself..
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