The Horse Artillery of the Imperial Guard is a mounted artillery unit integrated into Napoleon I's Imperial Guard. Although it was not formed as a regiment until April 1806, its origins date back to M
Horse artilleryman of the Imperial Guard. Oil painting by Édouard Detaille, 1870.
The Battle of Marengo by Louis-François Lejeune, 1801
Jean-Jacques Desvaux de Saint-Maurice, in Guard horse artillery officer's uniform.
Napoleon checking the alignment of a cannon on the battlefield. Around him, the mounted artillerymen of the Imperial Guard prepare to fire the starter's pistol. Illustration by Job.
Jacques Lauriston
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Jacques Alexandre Bernard Law, marquis de Lauriston was a French soldier and diplomat of Scottish and Portuguese descent, and a general officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. He was bo
Portrait by Marie-Éléonore Godefroid, 1824
Napoleon and Lauriston in Moscow – an unflattering painting by Vasily Vereshchagin, representing a Russian point of view
Armand Emmanuel du Plessis, duc de Richelieu
Jean Baptiste de Villèle