Tag: Battle of Borodino

• 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

• 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

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• 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

• A Belgian cavalryman in Moscow, 1812 …

  

  A relative of our Belgian soldier here, Constant de Limon (officer in the 1st Regiment of Chasseurs à Cheval, General Bordessoule’s Brigade, part of Davout’s I Corps), forwarded the latter’s letter to a younger brother of our protagonist: Mister Delimon (sic, De Limon), place du Carrefour de Lodeau n° 4, in Paris. Ypres, 6 November…

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  September 27, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Anecdotes, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Letters – Correspondence, Marshals, Medicine – Surgery, Officer

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• Excerpts of a campaign journal, Russia 1812 …

  

  Details drawn from the Journal of General Friant’s Division … On the 9th, the division fought with the Russian troops who were defending the town of Mozhaysk and who were forced to evacuate it, after having torched it and caused some losses to the 48th Regiment. The division crossed Mozhaysk and found itself in the…

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  August 23, 2023

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  1812, Arson, Battle of Borodino, Burning of Moscow, Captain, Chasseur, Clothing, Colonel, Cossacks, Decorations, Emperor, Equipment, Eugène de Beauharnais, General Friant, General Miloradovich, General Platov, Grants, Inspection, Kremlin, Light Infantry, Major, Marshal Murat, Moscow, Mozhaysk, Napoleon, Occupation, Outpost, Peasants, Redoubts, Review, Russia, Supplies, Vanguard

• Eyewitness accounts of the campaign in Russia, 1812 (II) …

  

  TO COUNT DE LAVALETTE, DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE EMPIRE’S POSTAL SERVICES, IN PARIS. Moscow, 16 October 1812. My dear Count, I have the honour of informing you that the Intendant General has ordered me to bring down the postal service between France and Gumbinnen to one courier every two days, and the one between the…

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  June 30, 2023

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• Cossacks at Borodino, an unpublished report by General Pajol …

  

  In 1841, Marshal Soult, Minister of War, dispatched Staff Captain Ch. Pajol, son of the illustrious cavalry general of the First Empire, to the camp of Krasnoye Selo under the command of the Russian Emperor Nicholas himself, with a mission to travel through Russia, Poland, Prussia, Saxony and Germany. This mission was not merely of…

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  May 2, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Letters – Correspondence, Marshals, Officer, Reports

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• Soldiers and officer letters of the 1813 campaign …

  

  The first couple of letters were written by André Ravard. Born in Reignac (canton of Baignes), in a small municipality of Charente, this conscript was born into a family of farmers who already comprised a number of soldiers. Two of his uncles fought in the armies of the Republic and the Empire. The youngest, also…

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  March 12, 2023

  1812 Campaign, 1813 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Officer, Soldier

  Austria, Battle of Borodino, Battle of Lützen, Battle of Leipzig, Besançon, Bivouac, Burning of Moscow, Captain, Captivity, Clothing, Conscript, Conscription, Daily life, Dresden, Emperor, Erfurt, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, Frankfurt, Hungary, Hunger, Illness, Imprisonment, Injuries, Kulm, Legion of Honour, Lieutenant, Light Infantry, Marshal Bessières, Marshal Ney, Military School, Money, Moral, Moscow, Napoleon, Prisoner of war, Provisioning, Prussia, Romania, Russia, Saxony, Second Lieutenant, Smolensk, Supplies, Timișoara

• The plight of cuirassier officer de Gouttes in Russia …

  

  This portion of Jean de Gouttes’ correspondence with his family concerns the Russian campaign … He served in the 11th Cuirassier Regiment. From the outskirts of Königsberg (East Prussia), 12 June 1812. My dear mother, I have been sent on a mission to Danzig these days, from where I intended to write to you, but…

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  September 13, 2022

  1812 Campaign, Battle, Cavalry, Letters – Correspondence, Officer, Soldier

  1812, Battle of Borodino, Bivouac, Brunswick, Burning of Moscow, Cossacks, Cuirassier, Daily life, Königsberg, Marshal Macdonald, Money, Moscow, Mozhaysk, Pillage, Retreat, Russia, Smolensk, St Petersburg, Supplies

• The battle of Borodino, recounted in a letter of a French colonel …

  

  Copy of the letter written by Colonel D… to Mr. D. P… , at Smolensk. Mozhaysk, 7 September 1812, at 9 o’clock in the evening. I witnessed one of the most formidable battles that have ever been engaged since men first studied the art of destroying each other; I found myself, during the action, successively…

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  September 8, 2022

  1812 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Marshals, Officer

  1812, Batteries, Battle of Borodino, Colonel, Eugène de Beauharnais, Marshal Davout, Marshal Poniatowski, Mozhaysk, Redoubts, Russia, Russian Imperial Guard, Young Guard