Nationalizing France's Army : foreign, Black, and Jewish troops in the French military, 1715-1831
Foreign enlistment Jewish soldiers Mercenary troops Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 Soldiers, Black Military participation France e-böcker History Military history
University of Virginia Press
2016
EISBN 9780813938332
The Army before the nation: foreign troops in Old Regime.
France.
Nationalizing the Army.
Foreign legions from the Old Regime to the Terror.
The limits of pragmatism: foreign soldiers and the Terror.
Constitutionalism and innovation: foreign troops under the Directory and the Consulate.
Revolutionary continuities: Napoleon's foreign troops.
Jews, soldiering, and citizenship in revolutionary and Napoleonic France.
Conclusion: Foreign soldiers and the revolutionary legacy.
Appendices.
A. Places of birth for troops in foreign regiments.
B. The foreign regiments in 1789.
France.
Nationalizing the Army.
Foreign legions from the Old Regime to the Terror.
The limits of pragmatism: foreign soldiers and the Terror.
Constitutionalism and innovation: foreign troops under the Directory and the Consulate.
Revolutionary continuities: Napoleon's foreign troops.
Jews, soldiering, and citizenship in revolutionary and Napoleonic France.
Conclusion: Foreign soldiers and the revolutionary legacy.
Appendices.
A. Places of birth for troops in foreign regiments.
B. The foreign regiments in 1789.
