Martin Windrow is series editor at Osprey and an authority on the post-war French army, particularly the Foreign Legion. He is the author of numerous books, including Men-at-Arms 300: French Foreign Legion since 1945, and the critically acclaimed The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam (2004).Gerry Embleton has been a leading illustrator and researcher of historical costume since the 1970s, and has illustrated and written Osprey titles on a wide range of subjects for more than 20 years.

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• Introduction – France and Algeria in 1831Chronology of organizationThe first campaigns, Algeria 1832-35Spain, 1835-38Algeria, 1836-57The Crimean War, 1854-56Italy, 1859The Mexican Adventure, 1863-67The Franco-Prussian War, 1870-71; the Paris Commune, 1871Plate commentaries – uniform history

Martin Windrow is series editor at Osprey and an authority on the post-war French army, particularly the Foreign Legion. He is the author of numerous books, including Men-at-Arms 300: French Foreign Legion since 1945, and the critically acclaimed The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam (2004).Gerry Embleton has been a leading illustrator and researcher of historical costume since the 1970s, and has illustrated and written Osprey titles on a wide range of subjects for more than 20 years.

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• Introduction – France and Algeria in 1831Chronology of organizationThe first campaigns, Algeria 1832-35Spain, 1835-38Algeria, 1836-57The Crimean War, 1854-56Italy, 1859The Mexican Adventure, 1863-67The Franco-Prussian War, 1870-71; the Paris Commune, 1871Plate commentaries – uniform history