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Template: Foreign regiments of the French Imperial Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Add languages ...
Napoleon's Regiments: Battle Histories of the Regiments of the French Army, 1792–1815. London: Greenhill Books. ISBN 978-1853674136. OCLC 43787649. Smith, Digby (2006). An illustrated encyclopedia of uniforms of the Napoleonic wars : an expert, in-depth reference to the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary and Napoleonic period, 1792 ...
2 November: The French Directory (in French: "le Directoire") was established; 1796. March 2: Napoleon is given command of the French army in Italy; March 11: Italian campaign against Austria begins; May 10: Napoleon wins the Battle of Lodi; November 17: Napoleon wins the Battle of Arcole; 1797. January 14: Napoleon wins the Battle of Rivoli
Regiments of the First French Empire (1 C, 35 P) Pages in category "French military units and formations of the Napoleonic Wars" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
Coming mainly from Switzerland, Germany, Ireland, and Wallonia they gave a significant contribution to the French military effort. Swedish and Polish regiments were counted as German, Scottish as Irish. After the French Revolution the foreign regiments were in 1791 merged with the indigenous French regiments to new, numbered, regiments of the line.
The Legion was the only group of foreign soldiers in the French military to whom Napoleon ever gave an eagle. [3] Wearing a green uniform, [2] [6] its maximum size was about 2,000 men. [citation needed] Foreign regiments in the French Army 1810. Painting of 1830 by Alfred de Marbot (1812-1865).
During the Napoleonic Wars, every French regiment, division, and corps had its own medical staff, consisting of ambulance units, orderlies to perform nursing duties, apothecaries, surgeons, and doctors. Larrey was instrumental in reorganising military hospitals and making them more mobile.
Although the Coalition Wars are the most prominent subset of conflicts of this era, some French Revolutionary Wars such as the French invasion of Switzerland (1798), and some Napoleonic Wars such as the French invasion of Russia (June – December 1812) and the Peninsular War (October 1807 – April 1814), are not counted amongst the "Coalition ...