"Come general, the affair is over, we have lost the day," Napoleon told one ... Initially, the French outnumbered their opponents, especially in artillery. They were a homogeneous national force ...

The Imperial Guard was a small, elite army, directly under Napoleon’s control. Like the corps, it had infantry, cavalry and artillery ... as well as French. They were the most feared men ...

author of several works on the Napoleonic era, touches on the history of artillery, and military engineering, from the late seventeenth until well into the mid-nineteenth century. Kiley looks at the ...