Table of Contents

From Royal Guard to Imperial Guard - the background and creation of the regiment, 1810-11 · Officers & men - careers - regimental life in the Versailles garrison · Campaigns - Russia 1812 - Germany 1813 · Belgium 1814 - division of the regiment into Old and Young Guard units - General Maison's Antwerp campaign · Uniforms & weapons - full descriptions from unpublished Dutch sources

About the Author

RONALD PAWLY, born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1956, is a member of several international societies for Napoleonic studies. His forté is research in the field of military portraiture. He contributed to two major French reference works, Répertoire Mondial des Souvenirs Napoléonien and Dictionnaire des Colonels de Napoléon. In 1998 he published his first major work, The Red Lancers – Anatomy of a Napoleonic Regiment. A contributor to the Osprey Journal, he is the author of MAA 355 Wellington's Belgian Allies 1815, MAA 371 Wellington's Dutch Allies 1815, and MAA 378 Napoleon's Guards of Honour. Patrice Courcelle was born in northern France in 1950 and has been a professional illustrator for some 20 years. Entirely self-taught he has illustrated many books and magazine articles for Continental publishers, and his work hangs in a number of public and private collections. His other enthusiasms include music and cooking. Patrice lives close to the battlefield of Waterloo with his wife and son.