Tag: Ambulance

• 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

• 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

• Letters of a battalion commander, Russia 1812 …

  

  The military operations of 1812 commenced in June. On the 15th, the 33rd Infantry Regiment numbered 4,252 men divided into five battalions. This is the unit of our officer, whose letters we reproduce. On the 18th, Napoleon, who was at Gumbinnen (Prussia), inspected the 33rd Regiment, part of the 2nd Division (led by General Friant)…

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  November 18, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Battle, Generals, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Medicine – Surgery, Officer

  1812, Accomodation, Ambulance, Battalion Commander, Battle of Borodino, Battle of Smolensk, Berlin, Bivouac, Certificate, Cold, Daily life, Danzig, Dysentery, Elbing, Emperor, Family, General Friant, General Nansouty, Gumbinnen, Gzhatsk, Illness, Injuries, Inspection, Königsberg, Legion of Honour, Line infantry, Mainz, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Davout, Minsk, Money, Moscow, Moskva, Mozhaysk, Napoleon, Oder, Promotion, Redoubts, Retreat, Russia, Smolensk, Stettin, Surgeon, Vilna, Wine

• 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

• A perspective from the French Imperial household on the battle of Bautzen, 1813 …

  

  The following extract is drawn from the excellent recollections of treasurer Guillaume Peyrusse (1776-1860) … 20 May (1813). – The entire (Imperial) headquarters was on its feet very early. One staff officer succeeded another. The corps of the dukes of Reggio (Oudinot), Taranto (Macdonald), Ragusa (Marmont) and General Bertrand made their arrangements to cross the…

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  August 15, 2023

  1813 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, French-Allied forces, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer

  Ambulance, Battle of Bautzen, Bautzen, Bivouac, Cuirassier, Daily life, Dresden, Emperor, France, General Bertrand, General Bruyère, General Latour-Maubourg, Grand Marshal Duroc, Headquarters, Household, Imperial Guard, Injuries, Italy, Looting, Marshal Macdonald, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Ney, Marshal Oudinot, Napoleon, Pillage, Prussia, Red Lancers, Redoubts, Reichenbach, Russia, Saxony, Spree, Supplies, Treasurer, Wurschen

• An injury examination conducted by Larrey, 1813 …

  

  In May 1813, two hundred thousand conscripts had fought at Lützen, at Bautzen, at Wurtzen, like the Grenadiers did at Marengo, and the King of Saxony was led back to his capital in triumph. But this war of heroes which had been waged by conscripts who had barely left their depots and their fathers’ villages,…

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  March 2, 2023

  1813 Campaign, Battle, Medicine – Surgery, Reports, Soldier

  Ambulance, Baron Larrey, Battle of Bautzen, Battle of Lützen, Conscript, Conscription, Count Daru, Drill, Emperor, Formation, Hospital, Injuries, Inspection, Insubordination, Legal medicine, Musket, Mutilation, Napoleon, Surgeon, Wurtzen

• Battle and panic on the Danube, Wagram (1809) …

  

  The experiences of Philippe-René Girault (1775-1851), musician in the 93rd Line Regiment … Under the cover of our cannons, three bridges of a single piece, which were all prepared, were thrown from one bank to the other, half a league below the place where the first crossing had been effected, where the Austrians had accumulated…

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  November 14, 2022

  1809 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Infantry, Memoirs, Soldier

  Ambulance, Archduke Charles, Austria, Battle of Wagram, Bivouac, Bohemia, Daily life, Foodstuffs, General Molitor, Lobau, Musician, Sutlers, Vienna, Znaïm