This book examines the transformation of the French military profession during the momentous period that saw the death of royal absolutism, the rise and fall of

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Bonapartists in the Borderlands recounts how Napoleonic exiles and French refugees from Europe and the Caribbean joined forces with Latin American insurgents, G

A thoroughly researched and clearly written account of the French military from the Revolution to the Restoration, exploring the evolving idea of merit

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