Category: 1807 Campaign

• Napoleon and the battle of Eylau, as recounted by General Jomini … (I)

  

  Note by the article’s author, Xavier de Courville. This account, which is an extract from Jomini’s unpublished memoirs, is not entirely in accordance with some others, for example that of Thiers. I am transcribing this document as it stands, as it may be of use to history. – X. C. On debouching from the great…

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  May 14, 2024

  1807 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Allied (Coalition) forces, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer

  Barclay de Tolly, Battalion, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Friedland, Bivouac, Bulletin, Chasseur à Cheval de la Garde Impériale, Colberg, Column, Cuirassier, Daily life, Danzig, Daumesnil, Dokhturov, Dragoons, Emperor, Eylau, Fog, General Bruyère, General d'Hautpoul, General Desjardins, General Dorsenne, General Exelmans, General Heudelet, General Jomini, General Le Blond de Saint-Hilaire, General Legrand, General Lestocq, General Leval, General Sacken, Graudenz, Grenadiers, Imperial Guard, Königsberg, Light Infantry, Line infantry, Marshal Augereau, Marshal Davout, Marshal Grouchy, Marshal Lefebvre, Marshal Murat, Marshal Ney, Marshal Soult, Marshal Victor, Moral, Mounts, Napoleon, Orderly, Orders, Poland, Pomerania, Posen, Prussia, Russia, Serpallen, Skirmishers, Snow, Squadron Commander, Square, Sweden, Topprinen, Voltigeurs, Woods, Zeal

• Captain Puffeney’s recollections of the 1806-1807 Campaigns …

  

  The son of humble farmers from the Franche-Comté region, Captain Pierre-François Puffeney was born in Les Planches, near Arbois, on 5 December 1772. He was not yet twenty when he enlisted as a volunteer in the 2nd Battalion of the Jura, to fly, as it was then called, to the defence of the Fatherland. A…

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  April 4, 2024

  1806 Campaign, 1807 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Arbois, Baggage, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Friedland, Battle of Ostrołęka, Billet, Bivouac, Captain, Chief of Staff, Contusion, Corporal, Czarnowo, Daily life, Danzig, Decorations, Discipline, Duchy, Emperor, Erlangen, Eylau, Family, Fatigue, France, Franche-Comté, General Bennigsen, General Campana, General Essen, General Gazan, General Reille, General Savary, Glogau, Grenadiers, Grodno, Host, Hussars, Injuries, Jura, Königsberg, Legion of Honour, Lieutenant, Light Infantry, Line infantry, Lissa, Locals, Marshal Davout, Marshal Lannes, Marshal Masséna, Marshal Oudinot, Marshal Suchet, Mittellangdorff, Mud, Napoleon, Ostrolenka, Poland, Pregel, Prussia, Pultusk, Retreat, Rhine, River, Russia, Second Lieutenant, Sergeant-major, Siege of Danzig (1807), Silesia, Spain, Supplies, Tilsit, Town, Transport, Tsar Alexander, Village, Warsaw, Wartenberg, Winter, Woods

• A dragoon under Marshal Murat – Letters of the 1806-1807 Campaigns (III)

  

  The troops were beginning to grow, if not discouraged, at least weary of being beset day and night by Cossacks. Therefore the cavalry, charged with chasing down this troublesome and devious enemy, hardly rested. Until 15 March, Murat covered the line of the outposts: Luiduwo, near Gigenburg, 17 March 1807. Looking at the date of…

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  February 6, 2024

  1806 Campaign, 1807 Campaign, Battle, Cavalry, Letters – Correspondence, Officer

  Accomodation, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Friedland, Billet, Bivouac, Chasseur, Cold, Colonel, Cossacks, Daily life, Depot, Dragoons, Family, General Bourcier, General Louis de Bouillé, General Sébastiani, Grants, Hunger, Hussars, King Louis XVIII, Legion of Honour, Locals, Marshal Grouchy, Marshal Lannes, Marshal Murat, Peninsular War, Promotion, Prussia, Russia, Second Lieutenant, Squadron Commander, Tilsit, Tsar Alexander, Warsaw

• A dragoon under Marshal Murat – Letters of the 1806-1807 Campaigns (II)

  

  Poland was a completely different country for the French soldiers. The miserable and often desolate appearance of certain areas surprised them by the contrast with the bountiful regions where they had long resided. However, they were cheerful and confident, and the change of regime gave them more cause for jest than complaint. Moreover, the cordial…

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  January 22, 2024

  1806 Campaign, 1807 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Engineers, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer

  Accomodation, Allenstein, Billet, Bivouac, Chasseur à Cheval de la Garde Impériale, Cossacks, Craconville, Custrin, Daily life, Deppen, Dokhturov, Dragoons, Emperor, Eylau, Family, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, General Beaumont, General Bennigsen, General Corbineau, General d'Hautpoul, General Lasalle, Germany, Golitsyn, Health, Hoff, Königsberg, Liebstadt, Locals, Mainz, Marriage, Marshal Augereau, Marshal Davout, Marshal Lannes, Marshal Murat, Moral, Mud, Napoleon, Poland, Praga, Prussia, Pultusk, River, Russia, Snow, Supplies, Ukra, Vistula, Warsaw

• Letters of Désiré Trefcon, quartermaster in the 22nd Dragoons – 1806-1807

  

  Désiré Trefcon was conscripted in Year VII and initially served with his brothers Pierre-Antoine and Toussaint-Jean in the 15th Demi-Brigade. Due to his frail health and poor tolerance of arduous stages, he was almost constantly assigned to the depot companies. He had therefore remained in Bitche (Moselle Department) during the brilliant campaign of 1800. Eager…

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  January 11, 2024

  1806 Campaign, 1807 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer

  Battle of Austerlitz, Battle of Friedland, Berlin, Bitche, Bivouac, Captain, Daily life, Depot, Dragoons, Emperor, Family, Fatigue, General Carrié, Illness, Königsberg, Legion of Honour, Liège, Lieutenant, Line infantry, Locals, Marshal Grouchy, Marshal Murat, Misery, Mounts, Napoleon, NCO, Niemen, Ostrolenka, Paris, Poland, Prussia, Quartermaster, Rhine, Russia, Tilsit, Vanguard, Vistula, Warsaw

• Dedicated to the Imperial Cause – Letters of the Dandalle Family (II) …

  

  On 25 February 1807, Pierre quoted a passage from the Emperor’s proclamation: We pursued the enemy with bayonets at their backs for eighty leagues. We won three engagements and one battle. The enemy has lost 20,000 men. We are going to return to our billets and woe betide anyone who dares to disturb our respite.…

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  January 4, 2024

  1807 Campaign, Battle, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Allenstein, Austria, Bartenstein, Battle of Friedland, Battle of Guttstadt, Battle of Heilsberg, Bivouac, Chasseur, Continental System, Cossacks, Crossen, Daily life, Duchy of Warsaw, Emperor, Equipment, Execution, Family, Flag, Frankfurt, General Gudin, Germany, Grants, Grenadiers, Hohenstein, Homesick, Huningue, Imperial Guard, Inspection, Insubordination, Königsberg, King Frederick William III of Prussia, Legion of Honour, Light Infantry, Locals, Magdeburg, Marshal Davout, Marshal Murat, Money, Napoleon, Negotiations, Niemen, Oder, Peace, Poland, Police, Pregel, Provisioning, Prussia, Russia, Russian Imperial Guard, Silesia, Sonnenburg, Supplies, Tapiau, Tilsit, Tsar Alexander, Vistula, Wine

• Dedicated to the Imperial Cause – Letters of the Dandalle Family (I) …

  

  Introductions by the authors The reader is in for a unique experience from the outset, as the authenticity of the study’s content is striking. The sense of duty, the boundless admiration for their Emperor, Napoleon I, made these officers from the ranks perform nearly astonishing feats. They travelled the length and breadth of Europe, as…

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  December 16, 2023

  1805 Campaign, 1806 Campaign, 1807 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Armistice, Auerstedt, Austerlitz, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Jena, Belgium, Berlin, Billet, Bivouac, Brest, British, Captain, Chasseur, Chouans, Company, Conscript, Conscription, Cossacks, Custrin, Daily life, Depot, Elbe, Emperor, Family, Franconia, Germany, Grants, Hunger, Huningue, Imperial Guard, Injuries, Italy, Küstrin, Lieutenant, Light Infantry, Lille, Marshal Murat, Napoleon, NCO, Normandy, Pay, Peace, Poland, Posen, Potsdam, Prussia, Roads, Saale, Sarnowo, Saxony, Sergeant-major, Skirmishers, Sockoczim, Supplies, Tsar Alexander, Vendée, Vistula, Voltigeurs, Warsaw, Weimar, Winter

• A letter on the Chasseurs à Cheval of the Guard, after Friedland …

  

  Here we present an unpublished letter from Colonel Claude-Étienne Guyot (1768-1837) to Viceroy Eugène de Beauharnais about the plight of the Chasseurs à Cheval of the Imperial Guard after the battle of Friedland. We learn that Guyot regularly kept Eugène informed about the state of the regiment (Eugène having served in the prestigious unit) and…

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  November 25, 2023

  1807 Campaign, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer, Reports

  Baggage, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Friedland, Bivouac, Captain, Chasseur à Cheval de la Garde Impériale, Clothing, Cold, Colonel, Daily life, Depot, Emperor, Eugène de Beauharnais, Fatigue, General Guyot, Grants, Imperial Guard, Injuries, Major, Napoleon, Pregel, Reconnaissance, Supplies, Tilsit, Uniforms, Vistula, Winter

• Two letters of beau sabreur Jean-Baptiste Guindey, 1805-1807 …

  

  Guindey, who was born on 12 April 1785 at Laruns in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, was a French quartermaster in the 10th Regiment of Hussars during the Napoleonic Wars. He is reputed to have killed Prince Louis-Ferdinand of Prussia in single combat at the battle of Saalfeld in 1806. He would find his death as a lieutenant…

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  November 16, 2023

  1805 Campaign, 1806 Campaign, 1807 Campaign, Battle, Cavalry, Generals, Letters – Correspondence, Marshals, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Ambulance, Austria, Battle of Austerlitz, Battle of Hanau, Battle of Saalfeld, Billet, Bivouac, Daily life, Danube, Elite company, Emperor, Family, France, General Lasalle, General Montbrun, Germany, Grenadiers à Cheval, Headquarters, Hussars, Injuries, Lancers, Leave, Legion of Honour, Lieutenant, Light Cavalry, Louis-Ferdinand of Prussia, Money, Napoleon, NCO, Ostrolenka, Peace, Poland, Pressburg, Promotion, Prussia, Pultusk, Quartermaster, Retirement, Russia, Silesia, Strasbourg, Surrender, Tilsit, Ulm, Vienna, Warsaw, Wertingen

• Some remarks of a cuirassier officer, 1806-1807 …

  

  Jean de Gouttes recounts his experiences of the Prussian and Polish surroundings and battlefields in his correspondence with his parents … Schwarzach, 17 August 1806. Although I cannot put much structure into the details I have provided about Bavaria, I will continue to give you some as they are of interest to you. The predominant…

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  August 10, 2023

  1806 Campaign, 1807 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Medicine – Surgery, Officer

  Accomodation, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Friedland, Battle of Guttstadt, Battle of Heilsberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Bivouac, Cuirassier, Daily life, Depot, Elbe, General d'Hautpoul, Germany, Grants, Injuries, Königsberg, Lübeck, Legion of Honour, Marshal Murat, Marshal Ney, Marshal Soult, Napoleon, Niemen, Oder, Poland, Prisoner of war, Prussia, Religion, Russia, Supplies, Thorn, Tilsit, Truce, Tsar Alexander, Vanguard