RENE CHARTRAND

Detailed information on the Mexican Army which fought the Texans in the 1830s, and the US Army in its first important foreign war ten years later, is notoriously elusive. In this ground-breaking book an internationally respected military historian presents a mass of new information from Mexican archives and a variety of other contemporary source...

The emergence of light troops at the time of Louis XV's reign (1715-1774) is a sign of the search...