Soldier of the 4th Regiment of the French Hussars in combat, 1809. Mounted hussar aiming his musket. In plumed shako, red pelisse with frogging, blue breeches, black boots and sabretache, armed with sabre. Animal-skin shabrack. Hussard, 1809. Handcoloured woodcut by Andrew Best Leloir after an illustration by Hippolyte Bellangé from Laurent de l’Ardeche’s Histoire de Napoleon, Paris, 1840.

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