Michel Ney

1769–1815

Michel Ney was a French marshal of the empire and one of Napoleon’s most famous commanders. Known as the “Bravest of the Brave,” he fought through the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars and was executed after the Bourbon Restoration for his support of Napoleon during the Hundred Days.

Griff Hosker’s Chasseur À Cheval places Michel Ney within a narrative shaped by family, marriage and personal loyalty and military command and battlefield decision-making. Adrian Goldsworthy’s All in Scarlet Uniform places Michel Ney within a narrative shaped by military command and battlefield decision-making. Other novels featuring Michel Ney include Griff Hosker’s 1808, Griff Hosker’s Bloody Badajoz, Griff Hosker’s British Light Dragoon, Griff Hosker’s Napoleon’s Guard, and Griff Hosker’s Soldier Spy (the Napoleonic Horseman Book 4).

Series

Series featuring Michel Ney (2 series)

Napoleonic Horseman in Order

by Griff Hosker 10 books 4.4

Napoleonic Horseman follows a cavalryman through the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The series moves between French and British service, espionage, the Peninsular War, sieges and Waterloo, using mounted warfare to show how individual soldiers are pulled through the largest conflicts of the age.

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Chasseur À Cheval

4.2

Napoleon’s Guard

4.3

British Light Dragoon

4.4

Soldier Spy (the Napoleonic Horseman Book 4)

4.4

1808

4.5

Talavera

4.5

The Lines of Torres Vedras

4.6

Bloody Badajoz

4.5

The Road to France

4.5

Waterloo

4.6

Napoleonic Wars in Order

by Adrian Goldsworthy 6 books 4.3

The Napoleonic Wars series follows officers and soldiers of the fictional 106th Regiment of Foot through Wellington’s campaigns. The novels move from the first British intervention in Spain through Moore’s retreat to Corunna, Talavera, Ciudad Rodrigo, Cádiz and Albuera, showing the war through ordinary officers rather than generals…

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