In 1715 France had a massive in a foreign country empire in the USA, Africa and Asia, its colonies garrisoned by means of hundreds of thousands of normal officials and infantrymen who belonged to the Navy's colonial institution or by means of the French East India Company's troops. although those troops usually are not often coated in histories of the French forces, because the finish of the seventeenth century, they observed significant motion opposed to the enemy out of the country. This final quantity in a sequence of 5 (Men-at-Arms 296, 302, 304, 308 and 313) info the uniforms, fingers and accoutrements of Louis XV's colonial and naval troops. The textual content is observed via a number of images and illustrations, together with 8 complete color plates.
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