Captain Jean-Roch Coignet was born a month after the American Declaration of Independence, and lived through three French Revolutions, two Republics, one Empire, and four Kingships. He writes truthfully of himself and his times in these fascinating memoirs. In the pages of his note-book, Coignet relates the ordinary soldier's views of the great campaigns and battles - Montebello and Marengo in 1800; the campaigns of Austerlitz, Jena, Eylau...