This 1874 oil painting by Félix Philippoteaux shows one of the last French cavalry charges against ... was a fatal blow to Napoleon’s enemies. On June 17, heavy rains soaked the ground and ...

including Napoleon’s involvement at the 1798 Battle of the Pyramids and how he “never” led a French cavalry charge. “Get a life,” Scott said. “I tend to be visual above all things ...

M DE LA COLONIE was a French officer of cavalry, having a good acquaintance with engineering, who took part in the war of the Spanish succession and in other leading contests of the period ...