The emergence of sunshine troops on the time of Louis XV's reign (1715-1774) is an indication of the quest for greater intelligence of the enemy and fast tactical strikes on battlefields. This fourth instalment of René Chartrand's evaluate of Louis XV's military finds a rare number of devices, so much now lengthy forgotten, who had a blinding collection of uniforms, apparatus and guns, as is printed by way of this attention-grabbing textual content and its quite a few accompanying illustrations, which come with 8 complete web page color plates via Eugène Lelièpvre.
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