Tag: Battle of Medina del Rio-Seco

• Colonel Raymond Guiraud’s war journal (III) …

  

  … Clouds were gathering on the horizon, and there was no doubt that it would soon be necessary to return to the battlefield. An army commanded by Junot had set out for Portugal at the end of 1807. Under the pretext of supporting this expedition, Generals Dupont, Duhesme and Moncey had also crossed the borders…

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  June 21, 2023

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• Second Lieutenant Zickel’s letters from Spain, 1808-1809 …

  

  Here we have François-Joseph Zickel, an officer in the 10th Regiment of Chasseurs à Cheval, after nine years’ service and almost as many campaigns. His ‘new epaulette’ received its baptism of fire at Friedland on 14 June 1807. Then, after the peace of Tilsit and a few months’ well-earned rest, the two Zickel brothers moved…

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  June 2, 2023

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  Battle of Friedland, Battle of Medellín, Battle of Medina del Rio-Seco, Battle of Ocaña, Bivouac, Burgos, Captain, Chasseur à Cheval, Colmar, Daily life, Don Benito, Dragoons, Extremadura, General Lasalle, Grants, Guadiana, Guerilla, Hussars, Insurgency, Lieutenant, Madrid, Marshal Victor, Miajadas, Polish Lancers, Promotion, Quartermaster, Second Lieutenant, Somosierra, Spain, Talavera, Tilsit, Truxillo, Valdemor