ARTILLERIES DU 1er EMPIRE

French artillery of the Napoleonic wars

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When you tackle the French artillery of the First Em- pire you must always take into account descriptions of the artillery of the Ancien Régime and the Revo- lution in detail, which is what this book does. The term “artillery” in the Middle Ages designated “all the machines the army uses”. So, originally, the ar- tillery corps comprised officers who created, used and maintained these machines. It took several cen- turies and a lot of ups and downs before the artillery was effectively organised: this was Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval’s vocation. Mr de Gribeau- val, the Inspector of Artillery, set up this organisa-

tion gradually over more than thirty years, and it remained in force, to a greater or lesser extent, until 1825 and this is the subject of this book.
All the artillery pieces, the materiel used by the Foot and Horse Artillery at the end of the Ancien Regime, during the Revolution and the First Empire, as well as the Pontoneers, the permanent artillery (l’artillerie sédentaire) of the Coastguard Artillery, these all too often forgotten heroes of the Napoleonic era, are presented in the hundreds of profiles and silhouettes shown in this book...

Two chapters are given over to the artillery trains and teams which, during the First Empire, reach the age of maturity, the age of regulations.
This book is the revised and improved new version of the books published some time ago by the same authors and enthusiasts who, in 176 pages, develop their ideas about the period in almost a thousand drawings. 

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Data sheet

Format
21 x 29x7 cm
nombre de pages
176
Author(s)
Ludovic Letrun - Jean-Marie Mongin
Cover
Hardcover

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