This fourth volume concludes the series on the 'Uniforms of the Armies at Waterloo'.After the
previous volumes presented the Allied side this fourth part deals with its opponents the
French Armée du Nord under the command of Napoleon I. This Northern Army despite its short
existence after Napoleon's return to France's imperial throne consisted of numerous
experienced soldiers from his earlier campaigns with the caveat that its uniforms did not
always comply with regulations due to the army's rapid mobilization.As in the three previous
volumes the two editors Markus Gärtner and Markus Stein take the opportunity to evaluate
Charles Lyall's uniform plates by using the current knowledge of how the French troops actually
appeared in 1815. Due to the special status attributed to the French Imperial Guard especially
in England numerous Lyall plates deal with Guard units. However some of the units depicted
had already been disbanded before 1815 but the editors decided to publish them in this volume
as well along with a short commentary.As in the other volumes to complete the visual images
in the plates this one provides the order of battle as well as supplementary descriptions of
the organization and uniforms of the Northern Army's units deployed in the Netherlands. Finally
the description of the Battle of Waterloo begun in the first volume and continued in the
following volumes is taken up again and continued until the end with the French retreat from
the battlefield. This description is accompanied by two more maps from William Siborne'sAtlas
to History of the Waterloo Campaign.
