Unlucky General

In researching armies for the first expansion campaign of the French conquest of Algeria, I discovered there were no readily available publications covering the period 1831-40. Starting with the French colonial forces, there was sufficient resources to instruct collecting and painting French infantry for the period as well as ranges available to depict the Foreign Legion - albeit that they are quite limited. Looking into the foundation of the Chasseur d'Afrique ; however, was another matter. There was next to nothing for their foundation years. For these campaigns, the original regiments were lancers. Thanks to Google Translate (where would we be without it?) I scrounged across several articles and managed to compile sufficient information to give me confidence in going forth and collecting several units in 28mm for myself. Currently there are no miniatures available which represent the original four regiments for this period in any scale - not plastic, metal or even 3D printing op...