Tag: Battle of Eylau

• Napoleon and the battle of Eylau, as recounted by General Jomini … (I)

  

  Note by the article’s author, Xavier de Courville. This account, which is an extract from Jomini’s unpublished memoirs, is not entirely in accordance with some others, for example that of Thiers. I am transcribing this document as it stands, as it may be of use to history. – X. C. On debouching from the great…

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  May 14, 2024

  1807 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Allied (Coalition) forces, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer

  Barclay de Tolly, Battalion, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Friedland, Bivouac, Bulletin, Chasseur à Cheval de la Garde Impériale, Colberg, Column, Cuirassier, Daily life, Danzig, Daumesnil, Dokhturov, Dragoons, Emperor, Eylau, Fog, General Bruyère, General d'Hautpoul, General Desjardins, General Dorsenne, General Exelmans, General Heudelet, General Jomini, General Le Blond de Saint-Hilaire, General Legrand, General Lestocq, General Leval, General Sacken, Graudenz, Grenadiers, Imperial Guard, Königsberg, Light Infantry, Line infantry, Marshal Augereau, Marshal Davout, Marshal Grouchy, Marshal Lefebvre, Marshal Murat, Marshal Ney, Marshal Soult, Marshal Victor, Moral, Mounts, Napoleon, Orderly, Orders, Poland, Pomerania, Posen, Prussia, Russia, Serpallen, Skirmishers, Snow, Squadron Commander, Square, Sweden, Topprinen, Voltigeurs, Woods, Zeal

• 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

  Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Marshals, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer, Peninsular War

  1812, Accomodation, Arapiles, Army of Portugal, Aspecia, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Friedland, Battle of Salamanca, British, Captain, Captivity, Clothing, Colonel, Daily life, Doctor, Duke of Wellington, Eagle, England, Fever, Fontainebleau, Gangrene, General Bonnet, General Clauzel, General Curto, General d'Hautpoul, General Ferey, General Foy, General Hill, General Maucune, General Taupin, General Thomières, Guerilla, Hanover, Health, Heat, Horse Artillery, Hospital, Illness, Imprisonment, Injuries, Insurgency, Italy, Légion du Midi, Line infantry, Manoeuvres, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Ney, Military School, Misery, Peninsular War, Poland, Porto, Portugal, Prussia, Religion, Salamanca, Scottish, Second Lieutenant, Sergeant, Skirmishers, Spain, Square, Surgeon, Tormes, Transport, Treatment, Vermin, Versailles

• Captain Puffeney’s recollections of the 1806-1807 Campaigns …

  

  The son of humble farmers from the Franche-Comté region, Captain Pierre-François Puffeney was born in Les Planches, near Arbois, on 5 December 1772. He was not yet twenty when he enlisted as a volunteer in the 2nd Battalion of the Jura, to fly, as it was then called, to the defence of the Fatherland. A…

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  April 4, 2024

  1806 Campaign, 1807 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Arbois, Baggage, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Friedland, Battle of Ostrołęka, Billet, Bivouac, Captain, Chief of Staff, Contusion, Corporal, Czarnowo, Daily life, Danzig, Decorations, Discipline, Duchy, Emperor, Erlangen, Eylau, Family, Fatigue, France, Franche-Comté, General Bennigsen, General Campana, General Essen, General Gazan, General Reille, General Savary, Glogau, Grenadiers, Grodno, Host, Hussars, Injuries, Jura, Königsberg, Legion of Honour, Lieutenant, Light Infantry, Line infantry, Lissa, Locals, Marshal Davout, Marshal Lannes, Marshal Masséna, Marshal Oudinot, Marshal Suchet, Mittellangdorff, Mud, Napoleon, Ostrolenka, Poland, Pregel, Prussia, Pultusk, Retreat, Rhine, River, Russia, Second Lieutenant, Sergeant-major, Siege of Danzig (1807), Silesia, Spain, Supplies, Tilsit, Town, Transport, Tsar Alexander, Village, Warsaw, Wartenberg, Winter, Woods

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

  

  The troops were beginning to grow, if not discouraged, at least weary of being beset day and night by Cossacks. Therefore the cavalry, charged with chasing down this troublesome and devious enemy, hardly rested. Until 15 March, Murat covered the line of the outposts: Luiduwo, near Gigenburg, 17 March 1807. Looking at the date of…

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  February 6, 2024

  1806 Campaign, 1807 Campaign, Battle, Cavalry, Letters – Correspondence, Officer

  Accomodation, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Friedland, Billet, Bivouac, Chasseur, Cold, Colonel, Cossacks, Daily life, Depot, Dragoons, Family, General Bourcier, General Louis de Bouillé, General Sébastiani, Grants, Hunger, Hussars, King Louis XVIII, Legion of Honour, Locals, Marshal Grouchy, Marshal Lannes, Marshal Murat, Peninsular War, Promotion, Prussia, Russia, Second Lieutenant, Squadron Commander, Tilsit, Tsar Alexander, Warsaw

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

  

  Introductions by the authors The reader is in for a unique experience from the outset, as the authenticity of the study’s content is striking. The sense of duty, the boundless admiration for their Emperor, Napoleon I, made these officers from the ranks perform nearly astonishing feats. They travelled the length and breadth of Europe, as…

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  December 16, 2023

  1805 Campaign, 1806 Campaign, 1807 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Armistice, Auerstedt, Austerlitz, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Jena, Belgium, Berlin, Billet, Bivouac, Brest, British, Captain, Chasseur, Chouans, Company, Conscript, Conscription, Cossacks, Custrin, Daily life, Depot, Elbe, Emperor, Family, Franconia, Germany, Grants, Hunger, Huningue, Imperial Guard, Injuries, Italy, Küstrin, Lieutenant, Light Infantry, Lille, Marshal Murat, Napoleon, NCO, Normandy, Pay, Peace, Poland, Posen, Potsdam, Prussia, Roads, Saale, Sarnowo, Saxony, Sergeant-major, Skirmishers, Sockoczim, Supplies, Tsar Alexander, Vendée, Vistula, Voltigeurs, Warsaw, Weimar, Winter

• A letter on the Chasseurs à Cheval of the Guard, after Friedland …

  

  Here we present an unpublished letter from Colonel Claude-Étienne Guyot (1768-1837) to Viceroy Eugène de Beauharnais about the plight of the Chasseurs à Cheval of the Imperial Guard after the battle of Friedland. We learn that Guyot regularly kept Eugène informed about the state of the regiment (Eugène having served in the prestigious unit) and…

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  November 25, 2023

  1807 Campaign, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer, Reports

  Baggage, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Friedland, Bivouac, Captain, Chasseur à Cheval de la Garde Impériale, Clothing, Cold, Colonel, Daily life, Depot, Emperor, Eugène de Beauharnais, Fatigue, General Guyot, Grants, Imperial Guard, Injuries, Major, Napoleon, Pregel, Reconnaissance, Supplies, Tilsit, Uniforms, Vistula, Winter

• Some remarks of a cuirassier officer, 1806-1807 …

  

  Jean de Gouttes recounts his experiences of the Prussian and Polish surroundings and battlefields in his correspondence with his parents … Schwarzach, 17 August 1806. Although I cannot put much structure into the details I have provided about Bavaria, I will continue to give you some as they are of interest to you. The predominant…

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  August 10, 2023

  1806 Campaign, 1807 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Medicine – Surgery, Officer

  Accomodation, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Friedland, Battle of Guttstadt, Battle of Heilsberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Bivouac, Cuirassier, Daily life, Depot, Elbe, General d'Hautpoul, Germany, Grants, Injuries, Königsberg, Lübeck, Legion of Honour, Marshal Murat, Marshal Ney, Marshal Soult, Napoleon, Niemen, Oder, Poland, Prisoner of war, Prussia, Religion, Russia, Supplies, Thorn, Tilsit, Truce, Tsar Alexander, Vanguard

• The broken eagle, at the battle of Eylau (II) …

  

  Grande ArméeVII Corps1st Division14th Line Regiment Report on the particulars of the 14th Line Infantry Regiment, at the battle of Eylau, 8 February 1807. The action began with a lively cannonade between the enemy artillery and that of His Imperial and Royal Majesty, positioned to the right of the church of Eylau. The 14th Regiment…

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  August 4, 2023

  1807 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Officer, Reports, Soldier

  Battalion Commander, Battle of Eylau, Bromberg, Captain, Captivity, Colonel, Complaint, Depot, Flag, General Desjardins, Imperial Guard, Imprisonment, Injuries, Königsberg, Lancers, Lieutenant, Marshal Berthier, Medical Officer, Minister of War, Napoleon, Prisoner of war, Prussia, Rosenau, Sergeant, Sergeant-major, Testimony

• The broken eagle, at the battle of Eylau (I) …

  

  The documents we are publishing concerning the loss of an infantry regiment’s shattered eagle at the murderous battle of Eylau, demonstrate how fervent the worship of the flag was among the troops of the Grande Armée. This loss of an eagle, ‘shattered by canister fire’, amidst the bloody march of the 1st Division of VII…

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  July 9, 2023

  1807 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Officer, Reports, Soldier

  Batteries, Battle of Eylau, Colonel, Depot, Dragoons, Emperor, Flag, General Desjardins, Grants, Imprisonment, Injuries, Major, Marshal Augereau, Marshal Berthier, Napoleon, Russia

• Correspondence between Caulaincourt and Talleyrand (I) …

  

  THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TALLEYRAND AND CAULAINCOURT On 13 July 1797, Squadron Commander Caulaincourt arrived in Paris. The previous year, he had travelled to Constantinople with the staff of General Aubert-Dubayet, the Directory’s ambassador to the Porte, and returned to France to escort Seyyid Al Effendi, the peculiar envoy of the Sultan that had fascinated Parisians…

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  July 4, 2023

  Aide-de-camp, Diplomacy, Generals, Letters – Correspondence

  Ambassy, Appointment, Austria, Battle of Eylau, Black Cabinet, Brienne, Courland, De Canisy, Duchess of Dino, Duke of Enghien, Emperor, Empress Marie-Louise, Erfurt, Ettenheim, Execution, First Restauration, Fouché, France, General Caulaincourt (Master of Horse), General Lauriston, Ghent, Grand Marshal Duroc, Grants, Joséphine, Marriage, Minister of Foreign Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Napoleon, Ottoman Empire, Paris, Russia, St Petersburg, Talleyrand, Treason, Tsar Alexander, Vincennes