Prussian Uniforms in the Wars of Liberation
Colored plates taken from:
Great General Staff, Military History Department II, The Prussian Army in the Year 1812, Berlin 1912.
Great General Staff, Military History Department II, The Prussian Army in the Year 1812, Berlin 1913.
Implementing provisions for general conscription of 29 March 1815.
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