If one of the main purposes of Napoleonic military uniforms was to distinguish your soldiers through the smoke of battle, why did some armies ( Prussians, Black Brunswickers) wear dark uniforms? Were they
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Prussian Freikorps and Volunteers of the Wars of Liberation: the Uniform Plates of Friedrich Neumann
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