It's a great package that covers infantry, artillery, cavalry, sappers, Navy marines, Army of the Orient, and military school cadets. It was the Chasseurs that usually provided personal escort to Napoleon, and he often wore the non-Hussar uniform of a colonel of their regiment in recognition of this service. The uniform of the Dragoon consisted of a green coat with turnbacks and lapels of the regimental facing color, and the collar, cuffs, cuff flaps, and piping edging the facings either of the facings color or green depending on the regiment, green shoulder straps piped with the facing color, yet many regiments wore white epaulettes instead, turnbacks with green grenades, pewter buttons, a white waistcoat and breeches, black long boots, a brass helmet with a brass crest, a black helmet mane, a sealskin turban, black leather visor, the plume varied (see below), brass chin scales, a bearskin cap with a red plume, red and white cords, a red back panel with a white cross, red epaulettes for elite companies, a green surtout and green stable jacket, a green forage cap piped the facing color, white lace and grenade, white duck trousers, grey overalls with buttons on the side, white gauntlet gloves, an off-white cloak, and green housing edged white with white number.

For modellers, reenactors, history buffs and uniform enthusiasts complete guide to British uniforms of this period, highly recommended!The uniform of the Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard was very similar to that of the Grenadier of the line : Both were made of a blue coat, red piped white cuffs, white piped red lapels, blue piped red cuff flaps, red epaulettes and brass buttons. Except for the adjudant, the NCO did not wear epaulettes, except if they were part of an élite régiment. The broad range of uniforms depicted includes many from infrequently-illustrated foreign and auxiliary units in the French army. Monochrome reproductions of many of these plates have appeared as illustrations in many books on the Napoleonic Wars, but do not do them justice.

Following their example, hussar regiments were introduced into at least twelve European armies by 1800.He spent three years in India prior to the Second World War and another in Pakistan in 1948, following his army family around the globe. For those who do not have the Napoleonic Source Book by Philip J Haythornthwaite, this would be an ideal book to have instead. It was hussars of this "light" pattern, rather than the Polish heavy hussar, that were later to be copied across Europe. It is an expert guide to the weapons, equipment, deployment, tactics and motivation of the national forces of the day, as well as fascinating detail of the day-to-day life of a Napoleonic soldier. Three talented French artists, Carle Vernet, Horace Vernet (son of Carle) and Eugène Lami, capitalised on the wave of nostalgia for the First Empire brought on by the death of Napoleon in 1821 by producing a series of prints of French military uniforms of the French revolutionary and imperial armies.