War Invalid 1850. French military of the Second Republic.
Invalide de Guerre en 1850. Deuxième République française.
Source: Histoire de l’Armée et de tous les régiments depuis les premiers temps de la Monarchie jusqu’à nos jours par M. Adrien Pascal. Paris, Dutertre, Libraire -Editeur 1861.
Illustré par M. Philippoteaux, E. Charpentier, H. Bellangé, de Moraine, Morel-Fatio, Sorieul, etc.
Adrien Pascal (1815-1863) was a French military historian. He was the head of department of advertising at the Imperial Commission of the Universal Exhibition of 1855.
Philippoteaux, Félix Henri Emmanuel (French painter, engraver and illustrator, 1815–1884).
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