Ronald Pawly was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1956, where he still lives and works. He is a respected member of several international societies for Napoleonic studies, and an expert on 19th century military portraiture. He is the author of the monumental The Red Lancers: Anatomy of a Napoleonic Regiment (Crowood Press, 1998), and of a study of Napoleonic veterans’ tombs in Belgium. He has written extensively for Osprey, including Men-at-Arms 378 Napoleon’s Guards of Honour, and Elite 115, Napoleon’s Imperial Headquarters (1): Organization & Personnel. Patrice Courcelle was born in France in 1950 and has been a professional illustrator for some 20 years. Entirely self-taught, his dramatic and lucid style has won him widespread admiration in the field of military illustration. Patrice lives a few miles from the battlefield of Waterloo with his wife and son.

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