The story of the Légion de Damas from its roots in the upheavals of Revolutionary France to disbanding in Ukraine in 1798, through Dutch, British, and Russian service as well as alongside the Austrians.

Hughes de Bazouges is a retired colonel in the French Army. His interest in military history and modelling became centred around the history of the French military emigration in which a direct ancestor took part during the Revolution and passion he pursued when studying for his MA at La Sorbonne, Paris, and in several articles dedicated to the émigrés at arms. Along with research and his activity with La Sabretache, he currently teaches geo-politics and the history of Africa at ICES (Vendée) and the Military Academy of St Cyr (Brittany).