Napoleon's Infantry Handbook

Napoleon's Infantry Handbook Synopsis

If not a field marshalÆs baton, what did NapoleonÆs soldiers really carry in their backpacks? - - NapoleonÆs Infantry Handbook is an essential reference guide, filled with fascinating detail on the training, tactics, equipment, service and administration of NapoleonÆs infantry regiments. Based on contemporary training manuals, regulations and orders, NapoleonÆs Infantry Handbook details the everyday routines and practises which governed the imperial army up to the Battle of Waterloo and made it one of historyÆs most formidable military machines. - - Through years of research, Terry Crowdy has amassed a huge wealth of information on every aspect of the infantrymanÆs existence, from weapons drill and maintenance, uniform regulations, pay, diet, cooking regulations, hygiene and latrine digging, medical care, burial of the dead, how to apply for leave and so on. This remarkable book fills in the gaps left by campaign histories and even eyewitness memoirs, which often omit such details. This book doesnÆt merely recount what NapoleonÆs armies did, it explains how they did it. The result is a unique guide to the everyday life of NapoleonÆs infantry soldiers. -