Tag: Battle of Maloyaroslavets

• 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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• An Italian, the Grande Armée and the campaign of 1812 …

  

  The Biblioteca Estense in Modena preserves the original copies of a substantial set of letters written by an unsung soldier of the Army of the Kingdom of Italy, Paolo Magelli, born at Pavullo in 1785. These were addressed to his elder brother Giustiniano. In contrast, the correspondence does not contain the letters written by Giustiniano…

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  September 13, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, French-Allied forces, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Marshals, Officer, Soldier

  1812, Accomodation, Battle of Maloyaroslavets, Bavaria, Bivouac, Borodino, Burning of Moscow, Cold, Cossacks, Daily life, Dvina, Emperor, Eugène de Beauharnais, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, Frost, Grants, Hunger, Illness, Imperial Guard, Italy, Jérôme Bonaparte, Jews, Kaluga, Königsberg, Lithuania, Looting, Marienwerder, Marshal Murat, Milan, Modena, Money, Moscow, Mozhaysk, Napoleon, Niemen, Pillage, Poland, Prussia, Religion, Retreat, Royal Guard, Russia, Saxony, Silesia, Supplies, Surazh, Tsar Alexander, Vélite, Vermin, Vilna, Westphalia

• 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

  1812 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer, Reports, Soldier

  1812, Battle of Borodino, Battle of Maloyaroslavets, Battle of Smolensk, Berlin, Bivouac, Borodino, Burning of Moscow, Clothing, Colonel, Cossacks, Count Daru, Cuirassier, Custrin, Daily life, Dinaburg, Dorogobuzh, Fatigue, General Beaumont, General Caulaincourt (Master of Horse), General Desvaux de Saint-Maurice, General Sébastiani, Glogau, Gumbinnen, Headquarters, Horse Artillery, Injuries, Kaluga, Lieutenant, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Davout, Money, Moscow, Moskva, Mozhaysk, NCO, Niemen, Orsha, Paris, Posen, Postal service, Prussia, Redoubts, River, Russia, Smolensk, Stettin, Supplies, Surgeon, Vilna, Vitebsk, Vyazma, Warsaw

• A letter from Marshal Berthier to Marshal Ney, 1812 …

  

  Berthier recounts the battle of Maloyaroslavets in this letter, and the prince announces to Ney that the Emperor decided to carry out the retreat via Mozhaysk and Vyazma. The Duke of Elchingen will thus have to proceed to Vereya with all the parks which are located at Borovsk, and then move from Vereya to Mozhaysk.…

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  November 3, 2022

  1812 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Reports

  Battle of Maloyaroslavets, Bivouac, Borovsk, Cossacks, Eugène de Beauharnais, General Morand, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Davout, Marshal Mortier, Marshal Ney, Marshal Poniatowski, Mozhaysk, Retreat, Russia, Vyazma