Uniform of a mounted grenadier of the Imperial Guard, 1804-1815. In bearskin with plume, blue coat with gold epaulettes and aiguillettes, breeches and boots, armed with straight sword. Grenadier a Cheval, Garde Imperiale. 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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