1982 The Campaign of MDCCCXV; Or, A Narrative of the Military Operations which Took Place in France and Belgium During the Hundred Days

Description

Folding Maps, Limited Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

Bound in the publisher's original quarter red cloth with grey cloth boards.

This copy is a limited edition, being number one hundred and thirty eight of two hundred copies.

This edition is a facsimile edition of the original 1818 edition. First edition, thus.

Fold-out map colour frontispiece of the principal theatre of the war in Flanders, 1815, and two fold-out tables. Collated, complete.

This is a facsimile edition of General Gaspard Gourgaud’s French-perspective account of Napoleon’s military operations in France and Belgium after his return from exile. This faithfully reproduces the original, which emerged just three years after Waterloo. Having risen from the position of artillery lieutenant to become Napoleon’s ordnance officer and personal aide-de-camp, Gaspard combines his narrative account with documents to illustrate strategic decisions from the French headquarters, writing with Napoleon’s notes beside him.