WAR OF 1812 US UNIFORMS FLAGS WEAPONS EQUIPMENT RENE CHARTRAND

Description: A Most Warlike Appearance: Uniforms, Flags and Equipment of the United States Forces in the War of 1812 by René ChartrandService Publications. 2011. Revised and expanded edition. Very good hardcover, no dustjacket as issued. Tight binding, solid spine, slight spine canter and some rubbing wear to cover, bright clean unmarked text. Illustrated, 4to, 195 pages. “Quite simply, this edition of A Most Warlike Appearance is indispensable for those interested in its subject matter-be they historians, figurine collectors, re-enactors, museum and historic sites staff or those interested in the material culture of the early American republic–and, as far as I am aware, has no competitor in its field.”René Chartrand is one of the most renowned and professional experts on military uniforms in both the English and French-speaking worlds. His publications-books, booklets and articles-are legion but Chartrand is much more than a "scissors and paste" author as he always provides proper context for his subject. In A Most Warlike Appearance, he includes a preliminary chapter that discusses the prewar, wartime and postwar history of the regular and militia establishments that sets what follows in its proper place and time. The sections that follow on uniforms, flags, weapons and equipment are buttressed by background material on military administration and logistics, the state of American industry and, occasionally, comparisons with the British and European armies–which Chartrand is very well equipped to make. As a case in point, when discussing the 1813 uniform regulations for the regular army, he notes that the uniforms of the infantry and artillery,"now became one of the most sober to be found in the armies of the Napoleonic period as even facing colors were abolished. It might be said that a distinctive US national uniform had been found–an economical and practical style of dress that, nevertheless, had a quiet elegance and an air of efficiency. It was the look of soldiers of a free republic rather than the brow-beaten, be-plumed, and bedecked servants of a monarch–or so it may have seemed to some extreme patriots." Loc: A6StoreAdd to FavoritesFeedbackWAR OF 1812 US UNIFORMS FLAGS WEAPONS EQUIPMENT RENE CHARTRAND A Most Warlike Appearance: Uniforms, Flags and Equipment of the United States Forces in the War of 1812 by René ChartrandService Publications. 2011. Revised and expanded edition. Very good hardcover, no dustjacket as issued. Tight binding, solid spine, slight spine canter and some rubbing wear to cover, bright clean unmarked text. Illustrated, 4to, 195 pages. “Quite simply, this edition of A Most Warlike Appearance is indispensable for those interested in its subject matter-be they historians, figurine collectors, re-enactors, museum and historic sites staff or those interested in the material culture of the early American republic–and, as far as I am aware, has no competitor in its field.”René Chartrand is one of the most renowned and professional experts on military uniforms in both the English and French-speaking worlds. His publications-books, booklets and articles-are legion but Chartrand is much more than a "scissors and paste" author as he always provides proper context for his subject. In A Most Warlike Appearance, he includes a preliminary chapter that discusses the prewar, wartime and postwar history of the regular and militia establishments that sets what follows in its proper place and time. The sections that follow on uniforms, flags, weapons and equipment are buttressed by background material on military administration and logistics, the state of American industry and, occasionally, comparisons with the British and European armies–which Chartrand is very well equipped to make. As a case in point, when discussing the 1813 uniform regulations for the regular army, he notes that the uniforms of the infantry and artillery,"now became one of the most sober to be found in the armies of the Napoleonic period as even facing colors were abolished. It might be said that a distinctive US national uniform had been found–an economical and practical style of dress that, nevertheless, had a quiet elegance and an air of efficiency. It was the look of soldiers of a free republic rather than the brow-beaten, be-plumed, and bedecked servants of a monarch–or so it may have seemed to some extreme patriots." Loc: A6

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