This volume illustrates the last years of the Empire; dark years which
will see our "Chasseurs" being gobbled up during the Russian disaster.
Phantom regiments were reformed with considerable difficulty in 1813 and
1814. During the First Restoration, 15 regiments were formed from the
debris of the battles in Prussia and in France, fifteen regiments which
then took part in the Belgian Campaign and its epilogue at Waterloo.
King Louis VXIII dismissed these fifteen regiments on 16 July 1815, but
it wasn't until the 18th that the Chasseurs a Cheval reappeared in the
Royal Army!
During this period there was obviously a whole series of uniform
changes, the most important of which are outlined below.