Uniform of a French Imperial Dragoon Guard. In brass helmet with crest and long mane, leopard-fur turban, green coat with white turnbacks, gold epaulettes and aiguillettes, armed with straight sword and musket. Dragons, Garde Imperiale. Handcoloured woodcut by ABL (Andrew Best Leloir) after an illustration by Hippolyte Bellangé from Laurent de l’Ardeche’s Histoire de Napoleon, Paris, 1840.

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