Chasseurs à cheval : 1779-1815. Vol. 1

The chasseurs à cheval owe their name to Jean-Chrétien Fischer who wanted to recover the French mounts stolen by the Austrian Hussars. He went off "chasing the mounts". And so began the little war for Chasseurs began... Barely fifty years later the Chasseur à Cheval embodied all the spirit of the new Republic and the quintessential revolutionary soldier, and determined all the virtues of the light trooper or infantryman à la française in military minds, explaining the tactical and strategic successes and mistakes the head-quarters staff made during the two centuries that followed. In this first volume, Ludovic Letrun depicts the French Chasseurs à cheval from the first regulations to the eve of the Empire. A short but nonetheless rich history...