This work, a prequel to "Warrior 57 French Napoleonic Infantryman 1803-15", concentrates on the period from the storming of the Bastile in 1789 until Bonaparte's election as Consul for Life in 1802. It provides a portrait of military life during the Revolution and beyond, with quotations from the memoirs who served during the "Wars of Liberty". It follows typical volunteers of 1791, through the early stages of the war, the Civil War in the west of France and into Bonaparte's second Italian campaign, culminating in the battle of Marengo in 1800.