Category: Allied (Coalition) forces

• 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 This account, which is an extract from Jomini’s unpublished memoirs, is not entirely in accordance with some others, for example that of Thiers.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

• Fourrier François Hinard’s letters on the Austerlitz Campaign …

  

  Here are several lengthy letters of Fourrier François Hinard who served in General (future marshal) Suchet’s Division during the Austerlitz campaign. He provides many interesting details on daily life in the Grande Armée, hardships, money issues, family matters and battlefield experiences. Landshut (1) in Bavaria, 29 October 1805. Dear Rosalie, I can still enjoy the…

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  May 10, 2024

  1805 Campaign, Allied (Coalition) forces, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Diplomacy, Engineers, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer, Reports, Soldier

  Accomodation, Archduke Charles, Austerlitz, Austria, Battle of Austerlitz, Bavaria, Biberach, Billet, Bivouac, Blockade, Bourgeois, Brünn (Brno), Brest, Bulletin, Celebration, Chasseur à Cheval, Conscript, Conscription, Corporal, Coutances, Daily life, Danube, Donauwörth, Dysentery, Emperor, Emperor Francis of Austria, Family, Fatigue, Flag, Foodstuffs, Fourrier, France, Günzburg, General Beker, General Klein, General Mack, Grants, Hardship, Hospital, Howitzer, Hungary, Hunger, Illness, Injuries, Inn, Italy, Landshut, Line infantry, Linz, Locals, Marengo, Marshal Lannes, Marshal Masséna, Marshal Murat, Marshal Ney, Marshal Soult, Marshal Suchet, Money, Moral, Moravia, Napoleon, Normandy, Outpost, Paris, Peace, Postal service, Pressburg, Prisoner of war, Reconnaissance, Recovery, Religion, Retirement, Rhine, River, Russia, Russian Imperial Guard, Schönbrunn, Siege, Skirmishers, Spire, Strasbourg, Supplies, Talleyrand, Tsar Alexander, Tyrol, Ulm, Vienna

• Louis Jacques Romand and the turmoil of 1813 … (II)

  

  On the 30th, General Vandamme, commanding I Corps, entered the defiles of the Bohemian mountains, where he was soundly beaten by the [Allied] combined army. He lost most of his men and he himself was captured by the enemy. Our baggage having, ill-advisedly, followed that of this corps and finding itself on the road was…

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  May 9, 2024

  1813 Campaign, Allied (Coalition) forces, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Diplomacy, French-Allied forces, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer, Soldier

  Abdication, Administration, Ambulance, Ambush, Ammunition, Austria, Battle of Dresden, Battle of Kulm, Belfort, Billet, Bivouac, Bohemia, Bread, Cadre, Capitulation, Company, Count, Daily life, Depot, Dresden, Emperor, Equipment, Family, Fatigue, First Restauration, Foodstuffs, Fortifications, Garrison, General Bonnet, General Vandamme, Grenadiers, Hospital, Host, Hungary, Hunger, Illness, Imprisonment, King Louis XVIII, Langres, Leipzig, Line infantry, Marshal St Cyr, Metz, Minister of War, Napoleon, Paris, Pirna, Prisoner of war, Russia, Skirmishers, Starvation, Strasbourg, Supplies, Toplitz, Treason, Vermin, Vienna

• Louis Jacques Romand and the turmoil of 1813 … (I)

  

  The protagonist of these recollections is Louis Jacques Romand. He was born in Vauconcourt, part of the arrondissement of Gray, Haute-Saône Department, on 12 October 1790. He saw action in the campaign in Austria of 1809 as a fusilier chasseur of the Guard (1st Regiment). Romand then was assigned to a expeditionary battalion and travelled…

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  May 4, 2024

  1813 Campaign, Allied (Coalition) forces, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Administration, Aide-de-camp, Ammunition, Austria, Bamberg, Barracks, Battalion, Battle of Dresden, Bavaria, Billet, Bivouac, Bohemia, Brest, Brittany, Champs-Elysées, Cold, Courage, Daily life, Dresden, Dutch, Emperor, Emperor Francis of Austria, Equipment, Expedition, Family, Fencing, Fire, Flag, Franconia, Frankfurt, Freyberg, Fusiliers, Geishubel, General Bonnet, Germany, Governor, Haute-Saône, Hunger, Illness, Imperial Guard, Injuries, Inspection, Invalides, Line infantry, Mainz, Marshal Augereau, Marshal Kellerman, Marshal Sérurier, Marshal St Cyr, Mauritius, Metz, Minister of War, Napoleon, Navy, NCO, Paris, Peace, Pirna, Prisoner of war, Prussia, Quartermaster, Rain, Rhine, Russia, Russian Imperial Guard, Saint-Cloud, Saint-Denis, Saxony, Sergeant, Sergeant-major, Seychelles, Shako, Sojourn, Supplies, Training, Truce, Vauconcourt, Versailles, Vertus, Village, Würzburg

• Guard Grenadier Philippe Ballut at Lützen and Bautzen, 1813 …

  

  In the evening, with the 2nd Grenadier Regiment occupying the ground on a plateau, the soldiers sighted the town of Lützen, with its round bell tower and a tall belfry tower dominating the large tile roofed buildings. The French cavalry had already entered the town to capture a few stragglers. It was known that Blücher…

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  April 8, 2024

  1813 Campaign, Allied (Coalition) forces, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Aide-de-camp, Ambulance, Austria, Baden, Baggage, Battle of Bautzen, Battle of Lützen, Bautzen, Bischofswerda, Bivouac, Blücher, Brandy, Bread, Captain, Conscript, Cossacks, Crime, Daily life, Dresden, Elbe, Elster, Emperor, Espionage, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, Görlitz, General Bertrand, General Bonnet, General Brenier, General Charpentier, General Compans, General Gérard, General Kirgener, General Marchand, General Morand, General Ricard, General Roguet, General Souham, General Wittgenstein, Grand Marshal Duroc, Grenadiers, Hessians, Hunger, Hussars, Imperial Guard, Kaya, Lancers, Lützen, Leipzig, Locals, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Macdonald, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Ney, Marshal Oudinot, Medical Officer, Money, Napoleon, Old Guard, Peasants, Pegau, Pillage, Poland, Prussia, Quartermaster, Reconnaissance, Retreat, River, Russia, Saxony, Sergeant-major, Silesia, Spree, Supplies, Te Deum, Theft, Transport, Tsar Alexander, Weisig, Weissenfels, Woods, Young Guard

• Grouchy’s service in Italy, May 1809 …

  

  The Austrian Archduke John had made the mistake, after the battle of Sacile, of not vigorously pursuing the army of the Viceroy Eugène de Beauharnais and allowing the prince time to recover. After spending eight days on the Livenza, without undertaking anything, the Austrian commander positioned himself around Conegliano, quartering his troops as though the…

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  February 1, 2024

  1809 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Allied (Coalition) forces, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Engineers, French-Allied forces, General staff, Generals, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer, Reports

  Accomodation, Aide-de-camp, Archduke John, Army of Italy, Austria, Battle of Sacile, Billet, Bivouac, Caldiero, Campo Formio, Carniola, Chasseur à Cheval, Cividale, Colonel, Conegliano, Crews, Dragoons, Eugène de Beauharnais, Ford, Gemona, General Baraguey d'Hilliers, General Broussier, General Durutte, General Grenier, General Sahuc, Grants, Hungary, Hussars, Italy, Legion of Honour, Light Cavalry, Livenza, Marshal Grouchy, Marshal Macdonald, Outpost, Palmanova, Piave, Picket, Promotion, River, Supplies, Tagliamento, Udine, Valvasone

• Marshal Poniatowski on the defence of the Vistula and the Duchy of Warsaw, January 1813 …

  

  To Marshal Davout. Warsaw, 20 January 1813. My Lord, I have just received the letter which Your Highness did me the honour of addressing to me on the 18th of this month. I only learned from its contents that His Majesty the King of Naples [Murat] has departed and that His Serene Highness the Prince…

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  January 23, 2024

  1812 Campaign, 1813 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Allied (Coalition) forces, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer, Reports, Soldier

  Austria, Bavaria, Cadre, Cracow, Duchy of Warsaw, Eugène de Beauharnais, Foodstuffs, General Reynier, Heavy Cavalry, Light Cavalry, Line infantry, Marshal Davout, Marshal Murat, Marshal Poniatowski, Modlin, Plock, Poland, Posen, Prussia, Retreat, Russia, Schwarzenberg, Supplies, Vistula, Vistula Legion, Warsaw, Zamosc

• Archduke Charles’ correspondence from the 1809 Campaign

  

  Ried, this 8th April 1809. My dearest uncle, I arrived here yesterday, though not without having suffered a lot from the cold. Everything here is covered with snow. I leave this afternoon for Altheim. I will be in Braunau tomorrow evening, and the day after tomorrow before daylight I will cross my Rubicon, if, as…

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  January 17, 2024

  1809 Campaign, Allied (Coalition) forces, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, French-Allied forces, General staff, Generals, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals

  Aderklaa, Altenburg, Archduke Charles, Armistice, Austria, Battle of Aspern-Essling, Battle of Ebelsberg, Battle of Eckmühl, Battle of Wagram, Battle of Znaim, Bellegarde, Bohemia, Brünn (Brno), Bridge, Budweis, Comorn, Croatia, Danube, Depot, Emperor, Engerau, Entrenchments, Eugène de Beauharnais, Family, Galicia (Poland), General Hiller, General Junot, General Molitor, General Montbrun, General Pajol, General Stutterheim, General Vandamme, Germany, Grand Marshal Duroc, Gross-Enzersdorf, Gyulai, Hungary, Illness, Kollowrat, Landshut, Landwehr, Lüneburg, Liechtenstein, Linz, Lobau, Markgrafneusiedl, Marshal Bernadotte, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Davout, Marshal Kellerman, Marshal Macdonald, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Masséna, Marshal Ney, Metternich, Moravia, Napoleon, Neumark, Olmütz, Poland, Pontoon, Prague, Pressburg, Raab, Radetzky, Regensburg, Ried, River, Russbach, Salzburg, Saxony, Schöngrabern, Silesia, Stadion, Teschen, Tsar Alexander, Tyrol, Vienna, Wallachia, Znaïm

• Cuirassier officer Jean de Gouttes and his 1813 correspondence …

  

  These documents relate our cavalry officer’s thoughts and experiences during the 1813 Campaign. De Gouttes served in the 11th Cuirassier Regiment … Kemberg (near Wittenberg), 19 March 1813. I left Braunschweig (Brunswick), where the cavalry was being reorganised, on 25 February with a company which I was honoured to be given command of, to join…

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  December 8, 2023

  1813 Campaign, Allied (Coalition) forces, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer

  Accomodation, Austria, Battle of Lützen, Battle of Leipzig, Bavaria, Berlin, Billet, Bivouac, Brunswick, Captain, Conscript, Cossacks, Cuirassier, Daily life, Dresden, Elbe, Elster, Emperor, Equipment, Eugène de Beauharnais, Family, General Lauriston, Germany, King Frederick William III of Prussia, Kirchberg, Kreuznach, Magdeburg, Mainz, Marshal Bessières, Marshal Davout, Marshal Macdonald, Marshal Ney, Money, Mounts, Napoleon, Oder, Pegau, Prussia, Retreat, Russia, Saale, Saxony, Silesia, Sweden, Thionville, Tsar Alexander, Wittenberg

• Remarks on the battle of Wagram, by General Édouard Colbert …

  

  General Pierre David Édouard de Colbert-Chabanais (1774-1853), in his ‘Unpublished Remarks’, wrote a concise account of the battle of Wagram. Its simplicity and modesty enhance its interest. We reproduce it here verbatim, together with some other manuscripts that he drew up. According to the orders given the day before by Napoleon, the French light cavalry…

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  December 6, 2023

  1809 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Allied (Coalition) forces, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, French-Allied forces, General staff, Generals, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer

  Accomodation, Aide-de-camp, Ammunition, Archduke Charles, Austria, Batteries, Battle of Aspern-Essling, Battle of Wagram, Bivouac, Brigadier, Chasseur à Cheval, Count Daru, Danube, Emperor, Empress Marie-Louise, Eugène de Beauharnais, General Auguste Colbert, General Bruyère, General Dupas, General Edouard Colbert, General Jacquinot, General Lasalle, General Lauriston, General Marulaz, General Montbrun, General Morand, General Pajol, General Piré, Guns, Hungary, Imperial Guard, Injuries, Italy, Light Cavalry, Lobau, Marshal Bernadotte, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Davout, Marshal Masséna, Marshal Oudinot, Moravia, Napoleon, Outpost, Pontoon, Prisoner of war, Recovery, Redoubts, Retreat, River, Rosenberg, Saxony, Vanguard, Vienna, Znaïm