Download Louis XV's Army (5) : Colonial and Naval Troops (Men-At-Arms by René Chartrand, Eugene Leliepvre PDF

By René Chartrand, Eugene Leliepvre
In 1715 France had a substantial out of the country empire in the US, Africa and Asia, its colonies garrisoned by means of hundreds of thousands of normal officials and infantrymen who belonged to the Navy's colonial institution or by means of the French East India Company's troops. notwithstanding those troops aren't frequently coated in histories of the French forces, because the finish of the seventeenth century, they observed enormous motion opposed to the enemy in a foreign country. This final quantity in a sequence of 5 (Men-at-Arms 296, 302, 304, 308 and 313) information the uniforms, hands and accoutrements of Louis XV's colonial and naval troops. The textual content is followed via quite a few photos and illustrations, together with 8 complete color plates.