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APOLEON'S IMPERIAL HEADQUARTERS (2) ON CAMPAIGN This early portrait by Riesener, 1806, of an adjutant- commandant of the Imperial Guard in full dress, illustrates the richly gold- embroidered buttonhole loops of those staff officers with the status o