Tag: Army of Portugal

• 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

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• 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

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• The battle of Fuentes de Oñoro, recounted by a staff officer …

  

  Here follows an excerpt from Emmanuel-Frédéric Sprünglin’s (1773-1844) exceptional memoirs, which he wrote based on his detailed journal he kept during his service in the Peninsular War. On 3 October 1810, our Swiss-born officer was appointed deputy (adjoint) battalion commander in the general staff of the Army of Portugal. When the decision was made for…

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  February 28, 2024

  Aide-de-camp, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer, Peninsular War

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• Extracts from the livre d’ordre of the 12th Light Infantry Regiment during the Peninsular War …

  

  Order of 18 March 1811 The regiment is hereby informed that His Excellency Marshal Soult has achieved the most brilliant success during his expedition following the capture of Olivera, where he took 4,500 prisoners. He battled two Spanish and Portuguese divisions whose positions covered the city of Badagos [sic, Badajoz]. These two divisions were defeated,…

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  January 30, 2024

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• Colonel Raymond Guiraud’s war journal (III) …

  

  … Clouds were gathering on the horizon, and there was no doubt that it would soon be necessary to return to the battlefield. An army commanded by Junot had set out for Portugal at the end of 1807. Under the pretext of supporting this expedition, Generals Dupont, Duhesme and Moncey had also crossed the borders…

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  June 21, 2023

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• A voltigeur’s murder attempt, November 1808 …

  

  A letter from General Buquet, head of the general staff of the Gendarmerie, dated Paris 19 November 1808 and addressed to the Minister of War … I have the honour of informing your Excellency that on the 11th of this month, at about 4 o’clock in the afternoon, when a detachment of the 70th Line…

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  December 6, 2022

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