With Napoleon's Guns: The Military Memoirs of an Officer of the First Empire

A vivid military memoir based on a journal written by a patriotic, yet clear-eyed, young officer during two decades of service under Napoleon's command.

In 1795-the year Napoleon Bonaparte was appointed commander-in-chief in Italy-the seventeen-year-old Jean-Nicolas-Auguste Noël entered the Artillery School at Chalons. A year later, with Napoleon proclaiming himself the liberator of Italy, Noël was appointed second lieutenant in the 8th Regiment of Horse Artillery. Written in 1850, With Napo...