Napoleon's Marine Artillery: French Naval Gunners and the Campaign of 1813-The Recollections of Jean Louis Rieu, an Officer of the Marine Artillery Rieu Jean Louis
Napoleon's Marine Artillery: French Naval Gunners and the Campaign of 1813-The Recollections of Jean Louis Rieu, an Officer of the Marine Artillery Rieu Jean Louis A new personal account and…
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Napoleon's Marine Artillery: French Naval Gunners and the Campaign of 1813-The Recollections of Jean Louis Rieu, an Officer of the Marine Artillery Rieu Jean Louis
A new personal account and historyThe Marine Artillery of Napoleon's army is possibly one of the least well known units in the military history of the First Empire of the French. The dominance of the Royal Navy at sea during this period ensured the French fleet lay blockaded in its harbours and so the men of the Marine Artillery languished for years without being called to action. During the later 18th century French naval gunners were quite separate from naval crews and their task was not only to serve the guns on ships of war, but also to garrison essential ports and fortifications along the long coastline of France and beyond.
Napoleon realised that in the Marine Artillery he had a By 1813 almost continuous wars of grinding attrition, culminating in the catastrophic disaster of the Russian Campaign, had seriously depleted the ranks of the French Army.