Bialnia Ewa- Legions and Polish troops in the Napoleonic wars [binding][state].

Warsaw 1922/ M.Arcta/ second edition/ publisher's cardboard, depiction of Napoleonic soldiers on the front/ p.112[1]/ good+ condition, notations on the face of the binding, library stamps on the p.tit. and [1].

In her book Legions and Polish Troops in the Napoleonic Wars, Ewa Bialnia describes the period of the late 18th and early 19th in Polish history. She emphasizes how, after the loss of freedom, many Poles counted on Napoleon's support, joining in crowds the Dabrowski Legions . It was then that Our Hymn was written, allegedly sung so loudly that Italian villagers were said to take it for a French song.

The author vividly describes the most spectacular examples of Polish valor, including the charge in the Somosierra Gorge, where the cavalrymen with the cry "Forward, dogs, the emperor is watching!" smashed four Spanish batteries in no time.

Although Napoleon's fall ultimately buried the dreams of independence, the Poles gained invaluable combat experience, the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw and France's first Polish marshal, Prince Joseph Poniatowski.