Tag: Barclay de Tolly

• Dedicated to the Imperial Cause – Letters of the Dandalle Family (V) …

  

  In September 1811, Alphonse, now definitively released from his clothing employment, sent a detachment by boat from Huningue to Wesel to join the regiment. He travelled to Hamburg, made contact with Hubert and returned to the Huningue depot, bidding it farewell on 20 April 1812 when he left for Cologne with another detachment. It is…

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  March 13, 2024

  1812 Campaign, Anecdotes, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer, Soldier

  1812, Austria, Barclay de Tolly, Battle of Borodino, Battle of Maloyaroslavets, Battle of Smolensk, Battle of the Berezina, Berlin, Bivouac, Borodino, Borovsk, Brandy, Bulletin, Burning of Moscow, Captain, Cold, Cologne, Cossacks, Croatia, Cuirassier, Daily life, Danzig, Depot, Dnieper, Dvina, Foodstuffs, France, General Moreau, General Nansouty, Germany, Grants, Hamburg, Hanover, Huningue, Italy, Kaluga, Königsberg, Kovno, Kremlin, Legion of Honour, Light Infantry, Lithuania, Magdeburg, Marshal Bernadotte, Marshal Mortier, Marshal Victor, Minsk, Money, Moscow, Moskva, Napoleon, Niemen, Poland, Polotsk, Prince Bagration, Prisoner of war, River, Russia, Studienka, Supplies, Sweden, Swiss, Tilsit, Tsar Alexander, Vanguard, Vilna, Vitebsk, Voltigeurs, Vyazma, Water, Wesel

• Konstantin Bulgakov’s 1814 letters from France …

  

  In the course of the campaign for France in 1814, Konstantin Bulgakov (1782-1835), attached to the Russian Imperial headquarters (whilst he also was a diplomat, privy councillor and postal administrator), maintained correspondence with his brother, Alexander. His letters, written in French, were published in the Roussky Arkhiv (1904, II and III); they are not lacking…

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  June 10, 2023

  1814 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Allied (Coalition) forces, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer

  Accomodation, Arcis, Austria, Bar-sur-Aube, Barclay de Tolly, Basel, Battle of Fère-Champenoise, Bavaria, Blücher, Brienne, Bubna, Colloredo, Cossacks, Dijon, Emperor, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, France, General Chernyshyov, General Moreau, General Pacthod, General Platov, General Vandamme, General Yorck, Grants, Headquarters, Imperial Guard, Langres, Madame de Staël, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Mortier, Moral, Nancy, Napoleon, Neufchâteau, Pas-de-Calais, Peasants, Postal service, Poverty, Pozzo di Borgo, Promotion, Provisioning, Prussia, Russia, Russian Imperial Guard, Saint-Dizier, Scherbatov, Schwarzenberg, Soissons, Spain, Supplies, Troyes, Tsar Alexander, Vesoul, Württemberg

• Reports prior and concerning the battle of Bautzen, 1813 …

  

  A fascinating selection of accounts on a significant battle of the 1813 campaign … At the camp in front of Bautzen, 17 May 1813. The town of Bautzen, located on the right bank of the Spree, is covered by this river, which flows, as it seems, at the foot of the wall which surrounds the…

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  February 7, 2023

  1813 Campaign, Allied (Coalition) forces, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Engineers, French-Allied forces, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer, Reports, Soldier

  Austria, Barclay de Tolly, Batteries, Battle of Bautzen, Bavaria, Blücher, Breslau, Captain, Cossacks, Count de Langeron, Cracow, Emperor, Espionage, Görlitz, General Barrois, General Kleist, General Lauriston, General Lefebvre-Desnoëttes, General Miloradovich, General Sébastiani, General Yorck, Hungary, Imprisonment, Intelligence, Interpreter, Landwehr, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Victor, Napoleon, Olmütz, Petit Quartier Général, Poland, Prisoner of war, Prussia, Redoubts, River, Russia, Saxony, Siege, Spree, Young Guard

• A letter to Marshal Macdonald, Russia 1812 …

  

  Hugues-Bernard Maret, the Duke of Bassano and Minister of Foreign Relations, who had remained in Vilna (Vilnius), provided Marshal Macdonald with news on 5 September 1812 and passed on the Emperor’s instructions to him. The duke retraced the march of the army of which Eugène and Poniatowski formed the wings, and he reproached the Russians…

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  August 19, 2022

  1812 Campaign, General staff, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Reports

  Barclay de Tolly, Cossacks, Duke of Bassano, Dvina, Eugène de Beauharnais, Hugues-Bernard Maret, Imperial Guard, Kutuzov, Marshal Davout, Marshal Macdonald, Marshal Murat, Marshal Ney, Marshal Poniatowski, Marshal St Cyr, Marshal Victor, Minister of Foreign Relations, Moscow, Vilna, Vyazma