NAPOLEON'S HEAVY CAVALRY: UNIFORMS AND EQUIPMENT OF THE CUIRASSIERS AND CARANINIERS, 1805-1815.
Code: J208
Price: £28
Category(s): New Books, Uniforms,
224pp., fully illus.in colour. Summer 2024. This book explores the long gestation of clothing and equipping the cuirassiers, the development of the arm from twelve regiments to twenty-one - if we include the carabiniers from 1811 - and how their clothing evolved across the period. As well as assessing the curiassiers, the story of the evolution of the uniforms of the carabiniers is also told.