Guy C. Dempsey - Napoleons Mercenaries: Foreign Units in the French Army Under the Consulate and Empire, 1799-1814

NAPOLEONS

MERCENARIES

By the same author

Napoleons Soldiers: The Grande Armee of 1807

as Depicted in the Paintings of the Otto Manuscript

Napoleons Army 18071814

as Depicted in the Prints of Aaron Martinet

Foreign Units in the French Army

under the Consulate and Empire, 17991814

Guy C. Dempsey, Jr

Frontline Books

In memory of

Jean M. Dempsey (19221996)

and

Guy C. Dempsey, Sr (19202001)

Napoleons Mercenaries

First published 2002 by Greenhill Books

published in this format in 2015 by

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Guy C. Dempsey, Jr, 2002

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Dempsey, Guy C.

Napoleons mercenaries: foreign units in the French Army under the Consulate

and Empire, 17991814

1. France. Armee History 19th century 2. Foreign enlistment France History 19th century 3. Mercenary troops France

History 19th

century 4. France History Consulate and Empire, 17991815

I. Title

355.31094409034

ISBN 1-85367-488-5

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available

Designed and edited by Roger Chesneau

Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Victoria Square, Bodmin, Cornwall

Front endpapers: (left) a Sbire, one of Prince Borgheses mounted Guards, and a grenadier and voltigeur from the Lgions Pimontaises; (right) a mounted chasseur, voltigeur, officer and grenadier of the Lgion Portugaise.

Back endpapers: (left) a grenadier of the Rgiment de Catalogne, an officer and grenadier from the Lgion Irlandaise, and grenadiers from the Rgiment Joseph-Napoleon and Rgiment dIllyrie; (right) troops from the Swiss regiments, the Rgiment dIsembourg and the Bataillon du Prince de Neufchatel. The endpapers are plates by Noirmont and Alfred de Marbot.

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