Disbanded Armies - Red Army, Military of Serbia and Montenegro, Republican Guard, Continental Army, Army of the Republic of Vietnam (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 113. Chapters: Red Army, Military of Serbia and Montenegro, Republican Guard, Continental Army, Army of the Republic of Vietnam, Grande Armee, Indian National Army, Confederate States Army, Indische Legion, First Indian National Army, Imperial Japanese Army, National People's Army, Yugoslav People's Army, Yugoslav People's Army Ground Forces, Heer, Ukrainian People's Army, South Lebanon Army, Texian Army, Manchukuo Imperial Army, Mohammad Iqbal Shedai, Rhodesian Security Forces, Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, Landstreitkrafte, Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army, Slovenian Territorial Defence, Battaglione Azad Hindoustan, 15th Continental Regiment, Grand Han Righteous Army, Jilin Self-Defence Army, Northeast People's Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, Northeastern People's Revolutionary Army, Inner Mongolian Army, Chinese People's National Salvation Army, Northeast Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army, Anti-Japanese Army for The Salvation of the Country, Heilungkiang National Salvation Army. Excerpt: The Grande Armee (French for "Great Army" or "Grand Army") first entered the annals of history when, in 1805, Napoleon I renamed the army that he had assembled on the French coast of the English Channel for the proposed invasion of Britain. It never achieved its primary goal, as Napoleon had to re-deploy it East in order to eliminate the threat of Austria and Russia, which were part of the Third Coalition assembled against France. Thereafter, the name was used for the principal French army deployed in the Campaigns of 1805-07 (where it got its prestige), 1812, and 1813-14. In practice, however, the term "Grande Armee" is used in English to refer to all of the multinational forces gathered by Napoleon I in his campaigns of the early 19th century (see Napoleonic Wars). The first Grande Armee consisted of six corps under the command of...