Tag: Accomodation

• 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

• The experiences of Dragoon Auguste de Maupas in Spain and Portugal, 1808-1812 (II)

  

  Valladolid, 5 December 1809. – I only have time to send you an embrace and inform you that I am in good health. We have arrived at Valladolid, where we will stay with General Kellerman until further notice. We engaged in a number of affairs which I am sure you will be able to find…

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  May 6, 2024

  Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer, Peninsular War, Soldier

  Abrantes, Accomodation, Administration, Alba de Tormes, Alcanizas, Alenquer, Almeida, Ammunition, Army of Portugal, Avila, Battle of Bussaco, Billet, Bivouac, Brigands, British, Burgos, Cadre, Captain, Coimbra, Daily life, Depot, Desertion, Dragoons, Duke of Wellington, Equipment, Extremadura, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, Fortifications, France, General Brenier, General Kellerman, General Montbrun, Guerilla, Lancers, Leiria, Lieutenant, Limoges, Lisbon, Madrid, Marshal Masséna, Marshal Ney, Ourém, Outpost, Placencia, Pombal, Portugal, Prisoner of war, Promotion, Punhete, Rain, Rearguard, Reconnaissance, Redinha, Retirement, Retreat, River, Rodrigo, Salamanca, Spain, Supplies, Tagus, Valladolid, Viseu, Zamora, Zêzere

• 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

• The Military Life of Bruno d’Ast … (III)

  

  In the meantime, Bruno d’Ast’s family was delighted to receive the news that he had been promoted to the Legion of Honour: they knew that this was the award that their son sought above all else, and we will see in one of the following letters the emotion with which he received this distinction, the…

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  April 22, 2024

  1813 Campaign, 1814 Campaign, 1815 Campaign, Battle, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Marshals, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Aide-de-camp, Auch, Battle of Dresden, Battle of Lützen, Battle of Leipzig, Battle of Waterloo, Billet, Bivouac, Cadre, Captain, Caroline Bonaparte, Chasseur, Corporal, Daily life, Dresden, Duke of Wellington, Emperor, Family, Folkwitz, Fontainebleau, General Lanusse, General Ricard, Gers, Glogau, Grants, Imperial Guard, Injuries, King Louis XVIII, Lützen, Legion of Honour, Light Infantry, Mainz, Marriage, Marshal Murat, Marshal Pérignon, Montech, Moscow, Naples, Napoleon, NCO, Neuf-Brisach, Old Guard, Orléans, Paris, Promotion, Prussia, Retirement, Rhine, Sergeant-major, Silesia, Steinau, Tirailleurs, Toulouse, Voltigeurs, Young Guard

• Recollections on the battle of Salamanca, 1812 …

  

  Alphonse d’Hautpoul was born at Versailles on 4 January 1789. He was a cousin of the cavalry general of the same name, who lost his life at the battle at Eylau. Alphonse’s brother, Amand, served in the horse artillery of the Imperial Guard. Attending the Military School at Fontainebleau, Alphonse departed there as a second…

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  April 15, 2024

  Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Marshals, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer, Peninsular War

  1812, Accomodation, Arapiles, Army of Portugal, Aspecia, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Friedland, Battle of Salamanca, British, Captain, Captivity, Clothing, Colonel, Daily life, Doctor, Duke of Wellington, Eagle, England, Fever, Fontainebleau, Gangrene, General Bonnet, General Clauzel, General Curto, General d'Hautpoul, General Ferey, General Foy, General Hill, General Maucune, General Taupin, General Thomières, Guerilla, Hanover, Health, Heat, Horse Artillery, Hospital, Illness, Imprisonment, Injuries, Insurgency, Italy, Légion du Midi, Line infantry, Manoeuvres, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Ney, Military School, Misery, Peninsular War, Poland, Porto, Portugal, Prussia, Religion, Salamanca, Scottish, Second Lieutenant, Sergeant, Skirmishers, Spain, Square, Surgeon, Tormes, Transport, Treatment, Vermin, Versailles

• 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

• 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

• The Military Life of Bruno d’Ast … (II)

  

  Moscow, 20 September 1812. My dear father, you must have received my letter from Smolensk by now. I hope that it finds you in as good health as I am at the moment, despite the fatigue and hardship we had to endure before arriving in this city. I spoke to you in my last letter…

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  April 3, 2024

  1812 Campaign, 1813 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer, Soldier

  1812, Aachen, Accomodation, Aide-de-camp, Aix la-Chapelle, Appointment, Battle of Bautzen, Battle of Borodino, Battle of Lützen, Billet, Bivouac, Borodino, Breslau, Burning of Moscow, Captain, Captivity, Cold, Conscription, Daily life, Emperor, Family, Fatigue, General Lanusse, General Ricard, General Roguet, Grenade, Haute-Garonne, Imperial Guard, Königsberg, Legion of Honour, Leipzig, Liegnitz, Line infantry, Lintz, Loan, Mainz, Major, Marriage, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Ney, Marshal Pérignon, Money, Moscow, Moskva, Mounts, Mozhaysk, Naples, Napoleon, Neumark, Oder, Paris, Périgord, Périgueux, Pillage, Prisoner of war, Promotion, Prussia, Russia, Supplies, Tirailleurs, Toulouse, Vilna, Voltigeurs, Wine, Winter

• Three Letters from J. J. Delvau, Soldier of the Imperial Guard … (1812)

  

  IMPERIAL GUARDGrenadiers Tirailleurs6th Regiment – 1st Battalion4th Company At Courbevoie, 24 March 1812. My dear father and mother, brothers and sisters, I want you to know that we are leaving for Magdeburg in Germany to join the regiment, which arrived there not long ago. However I do not think we will pass by your side.…

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  March 22, 2024

  1812 Campaign, Anecdotes, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Soldier

  1812, Accomodation, Bavaria, Belgium, Bivouac, Champagne, Clothing, Courbevoie, Daily life, Dinant, Egypt, Emperor, Equipment, Family, Foodstuffs, France, Germany, Grenadier-Tirailleurs, Health, Imperial Guard, Indies, Lorraine, Magdeburg, Mainz, Meuse, Misery, Money, Napoleon, Paris, Poland, Posen, Rumors, Russia, Saint Avold, Sambre, Saxony, Silesia, Supplies, Tsar Alexander

• Correspondence from Charleroi conscripts under Napoleon (II) …

  

  Letters from Pierre-Joseph Guilbert to his father Pierre-Joseph Guilbert was born in Jumet on 18 March 1781. He was the son of Charles and Marie Perony. A conscript of the Year IX (1800), he became a fusilier in the 5th Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 94th Line Infantry Regiment, 3rd Division of the…

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  February 26, 2024

  1805 Campaign, 1806 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Generals, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Peninsular War, Soldier

  Accomodation, Armistice, Austria, Baden, Battle of Austerlitz, Bavaria, Belgian, Belgium, Billet, Bivouac, Black Forest, Brigadier, British, Castile, Certificate, Charleroi, Conscript, Conscription, Cuirassier, Daily life, Desertion, Draft evasion, Dragoons, Duke of Wellington, Emperor Francis of Austria, Equipment, Family, Fürth, Fleurus, France, Freiburg im Breisgau, Fusiliers, Galicia (Spain), General Auguste de Caulaincourt, Germany, Hanover, Injuries, Joseph Bonaparte, Jumet, King Charles IV of Spain, Legion of Honour, Madrid, Marshal Jourdan, Marshal Murat, Merbes-le-Château, Misery, Mounted Carabiniers, Poland, Portugal, Prisoner of war, Prussia, Quartermaster, Religion, Rhine, Royal Guard, Russia, Saxony, Spain, Strasbourg, Tagus, Talavera, Train, Tsar Alexander, Württemberg, Weaponsmith