Huguenots in the army of Savoy-Piedmont: Protestant soldiers and civilians in the Savoyard state in the seventeenth and eighteenth century

During the Glorious Revolution of 1688 Huguenot soldiers were at the forefront of William of Orange's army. Their role was an important one and they are, with justification, best remembered for this act among British historians and the public alike. Yet Huguenot soldiers were a force to be reckoned with long before this event and French Protestants and their descendants featured prominently in European armies long afterwards. In the volume, this essay is devoted to the Huguenots as soldiers in Savoy-Piedmont, before and after the 1685 revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Complex political motivations underscored their involvements.