By Bruce Bassett-Powell

23 Pages of text and 19 color plates.

Napoleon’s disastrous campaign in Russia presented the Kingdom of Prussia an opportunity to avenge its humiliating defeat at Jena in 1806. As the bedraggled remains of the Grande Armee stumbled westwards through the snow the Prussians and Austrians, temporary allies of the Emperor, took their armies over to the Russian side. By early 1813, despite the reluctance of King Frederick-William III, his Generals and people had decided that French domination should come to an end and began organizing themselves to eject them from Prussia. The great generals, Scharnhorst and Gneisaneau had skillfully created a new Prussian army from 1808, circumventing the draconian restrictions placed on its size by Napoleon. Added to these regular units were many volunteer corps formed by enthusiastic and patriotic citizens. This volume examines the cavalry volunteers along with the famous Freicorps of von Hellwig and von Lützow. Knötel’s Uniformenkünde illustrated nearly all of these units and they are produced here with the usual informative text