Prussian Cavalry of the Napoleonic Wars (1): 1792-1807 (Men-at-Arms Series 162)
Peter Hofschroer - Prussian Cavalry of the Napoleonic Wars (1): 1792-1807
Osprey Publishing | 1987 | ISBN: 0850455758 | English | 50 pages | PDF | 20.73 MB
Men-at-Arms Series 162
Osprey Publishing | 1987 | ISBN: 0850455758 | English | 50 pages | PDF | 20.73 MB
Men-at-Arms Series 162
When Frederick II (later known as Frederick the Great) came to the throne in 1740, he had three advantages for which he owed thanks to his father: a modern, well-organised state; full coffers; and a properly trained and equipped army. Under a leader as renowned as Seydlitz, the Prussian cavalry achieved the nearest to a state of perfection that it was ever going to. So great was its reputation in the Seven Years' War that Napoleon made a special point of warning his men at the beginning of the 1806 campaign to beware of the Prussian cavalry.