In 1858, Napoleon’s last soldiers stood for one final portrait…
These are the only known images of Napoleon’s veterans photographed in full uniform. Captured in 1858, decades after the fall of the Empire, these remarkable portraits show the last soldiers of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grande Armée — men who likely fought at Waterloo and carried the memory of the Emperor into the late 19th century.
Credit to : History in Motion
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