French Foreign Legion 1831-71 (Men-at-Arms)

Concluding his bestselling sequence at the French international Legion, Martin Windrow explores the formation and improvement of the Legion in the course of its "first generation." Raised in 1831, the Legion's youth might see it struggle non-stop and savage campaigns in Algeria, relief the Spanish govt within the Carlist warfare, subscribe to the British within the Crimean crusade, and struggle along the Swiss within the bloody battles of Magenta and Solferino. With the ever-changing wrestle environments they discovered themselves in, the Legion needed to regularly adapt on the way to survive.

Taking benefit of the newest study, this lavishly illustrated examine explores the evolution of the uniforms and equipment of the French international Legion, from their early campaigns in Algeria via to their iconic conflict of Camerone in Mexico, and their function within the Franco-Prussian war.

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