French Infantry during the Seven Years War 1756-1763: Volume 2 Regimental Distinctions and Colours Part One: French Regiments No.1 to No.74 [Paperback]

Provides a detailed, fully illustrated study of French infantry uniforms and distinctions during 17561763.This second volume of French Infantry During the Seven Years War 1756-1763 covers the regiments, and especially their uniforms and distinctions. This is the first comprehensive publication on the state of the French infantry during the Seven Years War, with a complete study of all contemporary sources, such as the Etat militaires from 1754 to 1763, contemporary manuscripts, publications, and artworks. This book brings together a whole range of documents to form a reference work on the evolution of French infantry uniforms during the Seven Years War. Richly illustrated, this book will be useful to all researchers of the military history of the Seven Years War, re-enactors, wargamers and miniature painters.Part 1 of Volume 2 covers French infantry regiments from  1 to  74. Higher-numbered French regiments and foreign regiments in French service are covered in Part 2.The From Reason to Revolution series covers the period of military history c. 17211815, an era in which fortress-based strategy and linear battles gave way to the nation-in-arms and the beginnings of total war.This era saw the evolution and growth of light troops of all arms, and of increasingly flexible command systems to cope with the growing armies fielded by nations able to mobilise far greater proportions of their manpower than ever before. Many of these developments were fired by the great political upheavals of the era, with revolutions in America and France bringing about social change which in turn fed back into the military sphere as whole nations readied themselves for war. Only in the closing years of the period, as the reactionary powers began to regain the upper hand, did a military synthesis of the best of the old and the new become possible.The series will examine the military and naval history of the period in a greater degree of detail than has hitherto been attempted, and has lC1