French Napoleonic Infantry Tactics 1792-1815

A critical overview of the French infantry tactics which made them masters of Europe but eventually resulted in their defeat at Waterloo.

Bonaparte's Grande Armée, one of the most renowned battle-winning machines in history, evolved from a merging of the professional army of the Ancien Régime and the volunteers and conscripts of the Revolutionary levée en masse – although the contribution of the former is often underestimated. A leading authority on the history of tactics draws here on origi...