Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne, 1812-1813: Compiled From the Original Ms. By Paul Cottin
Adr1en jean baptiste fran001s bourgogne was the son of a cloth merchant of cond�-sur-escaut (nord). He reached his twentieth year on November 12th, 1805, a time when military glory was the one dream of youth. To make this dream real, his father procured his admission into a corps of the V�lites of the Guard, where a fixed income was a necessary qualification.
The V�lites were originally Roman soldiers lightly armed, for Skirmishing with the enemy (welitara). In the year XII. When the Revolution was at an end, two corps of V�lites, con sisting of 800 men each, were attached to the foot Grenadiers, and to the mounted Grenadiers of the Consul's Guard.
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