A study of the uniforms and organization of the numerous Swiss units that served in the armies of Revolutionary and Napoleonic France.

That association of mountainous territories shut in among the European powers, Switzerland solved part of its financial problems as early as the Renaissance by

This superb and comprehensive book details the foreign units which formed such an important part of Napoleon's forces. It examines each non-French unit in turn,

The Napoleonic Wars saw almost two decades of brutal fighting, from the frozen wastelands of Russia to the wilderness of the Peninsula, and from Egypt to the bl

Ever since the 15th century Switzerland had been exporting professional soldiers to serve as mercenaries for foreign monarchies. Napoleon, therefore, was not th