Excerpt from Waterloo<br><br>Of the three foreign regiments which existed under Louis XVIII. The Emperor preserved the second (isenberg) and the third (irish), presenting together 875 bayonets; the first (la Tour d'4uvergne), which had remained faithful to the Duke of Angouleme during the short campaign in the Midi, was disbanded The Emperor would have liked to have kept the four Swiss regiments, but the opposition manifested by the officers to taking the tricolor cockade necessitated the disbanding of these troops. Napoleon busied himself with organizing five new foreign regiments: one of Poles, quickly raised to 800 men, thanks to the soldiers of the ex - legion of the Vistula, who, although disbanded in 1814, had not yet returned to Poland; one of Swiss, into which entered 502 men of the four regiments suppressed on April 2nd one of Italians, one of Germans, and one of dutch-belgians. These three last were to be formed with deserters from the armies of Frimont, Blucher, and the Prince of Orange. At the beginning of June the dutch-belgian regiment counted 378 bayonets. Finally there were raised in the Gironde a battalion of negroes and a few companies of Spanish refugees.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.