"Garde Russe Grenadiers d'elite".
Grenadiers - selected units of the infantry and / or cavalry, originally intended for the assault of enemy fortifications, mainly in siege operations.
Poniatowski.
Jozef Poniatowski (1763 - 1813) Polish and French military leader, Minister of War of the Duchy of Warsaw and Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Army. Marshal of France. Descended from the Poniatovsky family.
Kosciusko.
Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kosciuszko (1746 – 1817) was a Polish-Lithuanian military engineer, statesman, and military leader who became a national hero in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and the United States. He fought in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth's struggles against Russia and Prussia, and on the US side in the American Revolutionary War. As Supreme Commander of the Polish National Armed Forces, he led the 1794 Kosciuszko Uprising.
Technique, Material: Steel engraving / Paper
Artist: Alexandre Lacauchie, Engraver: Alexandre Lacauchie
Date, Publisher: "France Militaire" par Abel Hugo, Paris, 1836.
Size: sheet 27 x 18 cm.
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