Wednesday, 24 August 2011

Jean Baptiste Antoine de Verger.


(1762-1851). This soldier, depicted here in a self-portrait was in the Royal Deux-Ponts regiment - a German unit in the French service. He left a diary as well as a drawing (see below). Read his account of the storming of Redoubt No 9 here.

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