Dedicated to all those who still practice the ancient and honourable art o f writing letters.
We are especially grateful to Herr Dr Ernst Aichner and the staff of the Bavarian Army Museum in Ingolstadt for supplying invaluable material on the 7th Infantry Regiment and the Bavarian combat experience during the Napoleonic epoch. We would also like to thank Herr Dr A. Fuchs of the Bavarian Kriegsarchiv for his kind and swift assistance in providing a copy of Franz’s Personalakt (OP 78406) and a wealth of other useful information.
Mr Peter Harrington also earned our gratitude for his always-friendly assistance in locating illustrations in the wonderful Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection at Brown University, Rhode Island, USA.
A Soldier for Napoleon
A Greenhill Book
First published in 1998 by Greenhill Books, Lionel Leventhal Limited
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Franz Hausmann © Cynthia Joy Hausmann, 1998
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ISBN: 978-1-47388-269-0
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