Carte generale du theatre de la guerre en Italie et dans les Alpes. / Carte generale des royaumes de Naples, Sicile & Sardaigne…

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Prima edizione delle più esaustiva e completa mappa dell’Italia d’età napoleonica, realizzata in scala 1:256 000 dallo stratega militare e comandante Louis-Albert-Guislain Bacler D’Albe "who served Napoleon with hardly a break from 1796 to 1813,... he was probably the most indispensible of all Napoleon's aides. He was responsible for performing all the staff duties connected with Napoleon's planning sessions. Hew was entrusted with the task of amending maps and the maintenance of a large daily situation chart, on which every formation was marked by pins of different colours" (David Chandler, The Campaigns of Napoleon, p. 372). Bacler d’Albe si arruolò come volontario il 1 maggio 1793, e fu destinato all’armata delle Alpi. Fu fatto capitano il 20 marzo 1794. Balteau, and al.: Dictionnaire de biographie française, vol IV, p. 1103; Michaud, Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne, vol. 2, pp. 573-4.