The free corps di Verger was one of the volunteer corps formed during the Seven Years War (1756-63) to cover the shortage of light infantry in the Prussian Army. The corps was formed in March 1758. It originally had a single battalion of five companies, mostly of French deserters, each with four
He is slender, knotty, of medium height, and between the cap and the pipe which rarely leaves his lips, the strong hooked nose betrays the man of character just as his gaze, sharp, attentive, the eye of a bird of prey, betrays the man of war. His name is Antoine-Marie-Pierre Charton, he is a lieuten
HORSE-LEGERS LANCIERS 1st regiment When he entered Warsaw in December 1806, Napoleon was escorted by a guard of honor made up of Polish nobles whose superb appearance won him over. Also, from March 2, 1807, the Emperor ordered the formation of a pulk, or body of Polish cavalry, of four squadrons int
The history of the Jewish people begins with Abraham . The first patriarch was born about 1813 BC. in the city of Ur Kassdim , in Caldea . Aware that idolatry was the fruit of the human mind and imagination, from an early age he set out in search of a true god. According to tradition Abraha