Black Powder: Napoleonic War Late French Line Infantry (1812-1815)En avant! The cry went up in hundreds of French throats as the blue columns marched forward on the battlefields across Europe. The all conquering French line infantry Les Bleus used a combination of massed columns, fast manoeuvre, and firepower to shatter the armies of Prussia, Austria, Spain and Russia, culminating in a death struggle against Wellington and Bluchers alliance at Waterloo in 1815. Well led and confident of victory, the average French