The Napoleonic Wars raged across Europe between 1799 and 1815 as the French army, inspired by Napoleon Bonaparte and led by able generals, defeated its enemies time and again in pursuit of la gloire. They achieved mastery of Europe by 1808, apart from Great Britain and Russia, and the conflict spread as far afield as South America, the Ottoman Empire and the Indian sub-continent.
In this long-awaited new volume, following up their first much-praised handbook on the British Army and her Allies, the authors se…
