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Adolphe Niel
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Adolphe Niel was a French Army general and statesman.
Adolphe Niel
Adolphe Niel
Garde Mobile
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The Garde mobile was intended to be a reserve force of all able-bodied men previously not drafted, trained yearly, during the time of Napoleon III.
Adolphe Niel
…mature. Under his system, those men who had purchased exemption from conscription into the army would nonetheless be called up into a new service, the Garde Mobile. He also was able to rearm the whole of the army with the chassepot rifle, but not the Garde Mobile. He did not live to complete the development of his…
The Attack at Dawn (Alphonse de Neuville, 1877). Prussian troops advance on a French town; French troops including Algerian riflemen and members of th
The Attack at Dawn (Alphonse de Neuville, 1877). Prussian troops advance on a French town; French troops including Algerian riflemen and members of the Garde Mobile rush to defend. The Walters Art Museum.