"The Guard charges!"
For the Emperor, the cavalery was the commander's weapon; it had to information him and allow him to make his actions felt, and give him an insight right in the heart of th fighting. He had to have as many squadrons as possible to ward off a danger, to take advantage of the first opportunity or create an opening during the battle.
From the charge made by the Grenadiers and the Chasseurs à cheval at Marengo to the terrible one Waterloo by the Lancers, not forgetting the death of Morland at the head of the Chasseurs and the Mamelukes at Austerlitz, the history of the Cavalry of the Guard isfull of glorious feats of arms, as glorious as the uniforms were magnificent.
"When campaigning, the Emperor never wore any other uniform except ours, espacially the service dress and semed just like one of our officers. He always wore our regiment's tailcoat, or green frock coat with two very small general's epaulets, without agglets".
This book is a new, completely redrawn, reviewed and greatly enlarged version - with almost 50% extra characters - of the one published several years ago by the same authors. In 176 pages, these two specialists' texts are illustred with a thousand or so pictures.