Tag: Baden

• 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

• 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

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

  

  In the spring of 1806, Amédée Le Nourry, captain-adjutant-major in the 16th Dragoon Regiment, was posted on the banks of the Inn, near Passau, alongside Marshal Soult’s army corps. Adjutant-major Le Nourry was an excellent officer with a keen understanding of his profession. Born on 8 July 1777 in Craconville near Evreux, he volunteered for…

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  January 8, 2024

  1806 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Diplomacy, General staff, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer

  Accomodation, Adjudant Major, Altmühl, Armistice, Austerlitz, Austria, Baden, Battle of Austerlitz, Battle of Jena, Bavaria, Berlin, Billet, Bivouac, Braunau, Captain, Colonel, Craconville, Daily life, Danube, Depot, Dragoons, Emperor, Evreux, Family, Foot Artillery, France, Franconia, Germany, Grenadiers, Haugwitz, Hohenlohe, Household, Inn, Inspection, King Frederick William III of Prussia, Kronach, Lieutenant, Locals, Magdeburg, Mainz, Marshal Murat, Marshal Soult, Metz, Meudon, Money, Mounts, Napoleon, Newspapers, Oder, Passau, Pay, Peace, Poland, Postal service, Potsdam, Prenzlau, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, Prussia, Ratisbonne, Regensburg, Review, Russia, Saxony, Scharding, Squadron Commander, Sulzbach, Tsar Alexander, Vienna, Württemberg, Würzburg

• Correspondence between Caulaincourt and Talleyrand (IV) …

  

  The marriage of Edmond de Périgord Talleyrand, finally appointed by the Emperor to accompany him, arrived at Erfurt on 24 September. Caulaincourt was already there. It is not the occasion here to explain again the strange conduct of the Prince of Benevento during these very important days. The history is well established on this point.…

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  October 2, 2023

  Aide-de-camp, Anecdotes, Diplomacy, General staff, Generals, Letters – Correspondence, Officer, Reports

  Baden, Bayonne, Berlin, British, Canning, Corps législatif, Courland, Czartoryski, De Canisy, Diplomacy, Duchess of Dino, Embassy, Erfurt, Eugène de Beauharnais, Fontanes, General Caulaincourt (Master of Horse), Germany, Grand Marshal Duroc, Intrigue, Löbichau, Madrid, Marriage, Minister of Foreign Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Napoleon, Negotiations, Nompère de Champagny, Peninsular War, Rumyantsev, Russia, Spain, St Petersburg, Talleyrand, Tsar Alexander, Tuileries

• Cuirassier Jean de Gouttes’ correspondence on Ulm and Austerlitz …

  

  La Ferté-sous-Jouarre (Seine-et-Marne), 16 Fructidor Year XIII (3 September 1805). You will no doubt be surprised to receive a letter from me dated from La Ferté; I confess that I did not expect to be leaving it so soon, even though I knew that we were due to depart from Versailles shortly. Mr. Salvaing may…

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  August 24, 2023

  1805 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Austria, Baden, Battle of Austerlitz, Bavaria, Billet, Bridge, British, Camp of Boulogne, Chalons, Cisalpine Republic, Cuirassier, Danube, Depot, Desertion, Elchingen, Emperor, Emperor Francis of Austria, Equipment, Flag, General d'Hautpoul, General Mack, General Saint-Sulpice, Germany, Hungary, Illness, Imprisonment, Invasion, Italy, La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, Landau, Light Infantry, Marshal Murat, Marshal Ney, Marshal Soult, Memmingen, Metz, Money, Munich, Napoleon, Paris, Poverty, Prisoner of war, Rhine, Russia, Sarreguemines, Strasbourg, Ulm, Vanguard, Verdun, Vienna, Württemberg

• Doctor Wilhelm Meier and Baden’s war efforts during the Russian campaign …

  

  This excerpt represents one complete chapter of Meier’s recollections. Relations between France and the rest of Europe, with Russia in particular – Causes and preparations for war Through the Peace of Vienna of 1809 and its consequences, the family bond established with the Imperial House of Austria, Napoleon had reached the summit of his fortune…

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  July 20, 2023

  1812 Campaign, French-Allied forces, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs

  1812, Accomodation, Army of Moldavia, Austria, Baden, Battle of Smolensk, Battle of the Berezina, Bivouac, Borodino, Burning of Moscow, Confederation of the Rhine, Continental System, Cossacks, Courland, Daily life, Danzig, Diplomacy, Doctor, Drissa, Duna, Dysentery, Elbing, Emperor, Fatigue, Frankfurt, Gdansk, General Chichagov, General Wintzingerode, General Wittgenstein, Germany, Hospital, Illness, Imprisonment, Jews, Königsberg, Kovno, Kremlin, Lancers, Looting, Mainz, Marienburg, Marshal Bernadotte, Marshal Murat, Marshal Victor, Moscow, Mozhaysk, Napoleon, Negotiations, Niemen, Occupation, Oder, Officer, Orsha, Ostrovno, Ottoman Empire, Paris, Pillage, Podolia, Poland, Pommerania, Prisoner of war, Prussia, Rearguard, Russia, Schwarzenberg, Scorched earth, Smolensk, St Petersburg, Stettin, Stralsund, Supplies, Sweden, Tilsit, Tsar Alexander, Vermin, Vienna, Vilna, Vistula, Vitebsk, Warsaw

• To Austerlitz – A French officer’s 1805 journal … (I)

  

  Here we have the 1805 journal entries of Louis Florimond Fantin des Odoards (1778-1866), an officer who primarily served in the 31st Light Infantry Regiment. We follow him in the wake of General (future marshal) Oudinot’s Grenadier Division … Rastatt, 6 Vendémiaire year XIV (28 September 1805). It is done. The magnificent army which formerly…

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  April 19, 2023

  1805 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Infantry, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer

  Archduke Ferdinand, Austria, Baden, Bavaria, Bivouac, Capitulation, Daily life, Danube, Dragoons, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, Göttingen, General Junot, General Mack, General Nansouty, Germany, Grenadiers, Hunger, Jungingen, Marshal Oudinot, Mühlhausen, Mud, Pillage, Rhine, Strasbourg, Supplies, Ulm, Württemberg

• Reports on the battles of Neumarkt and Ebelsberg, 1809 …

  

  On 24 (April), the Marshal Duke of Istria (Bessières) occupied Neumarkt with the Bavarian Division of General de Wrede and two brigades of light cavalry. The village of Neumarkt is located at the bottom of a defile which is intersected by the small Rott river and surrounded by woods which dominate it on all sides.…

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  April 18, 2023

  1809 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, French-Allied forces, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Marshals, Officer, Reports

  Austria, Baden, Battle of Ebelsberg, Battle of Neumarkt, Bavaria, Bivouac, Chasseur, Confederation of the Rhine, Decorations, Dragoons, General Claparède, General Coëhorn, General Hiller, General Ledru, General Legrand, General Marulaz, General Molitor, General Wrede, Legion of Honour, Light Horse, Lintz, Marshal Bessières, Marshal Masséna, Traun, Württemberg