Tag: Battle of the Berezina

• 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

• A letter on the retreat from Russia, by an artillery officer …

  

  The author of the following letter, Jean-Michel-Marie Prévost, son of Henri-François, councillor to the King, judge, magistrate in the seneschal and presiding court of Clermont-Ferrand, and Marguerite Monestier, was born in Clermont-Ferrand on 26 July 1782. Prévost entered the École Polytechnique on 1 Frimaire Year 10, became a student second lieutenant on 1 Vendémiaire Year…

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  November 21, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Artillery, Engineers, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer

  1812, Accomodation, Aide-de-camp, Battle of the Berezina, Bivouac, Clermont-Ferrand, Cold, Cossacks, Daily life, Dresden, Family, Foodstuffs, Foot Artillery, Horse Artillery, Injuries, Königsberg, Kovno, Krasnoi, Legion of Honour, Lyon, Magdeburg, Marriage, Moscow, National Guard, Pillage, Prisoner of war, Prussia, Rearguard, Retreat, Russia, Supplies, Thorn, Tilsit, Vilna, Vistula

• Doctor Wilhelm Meier and Baden’s war efforts during the Russian campaign …

  

  This excerpt represents one complete chapter of Meier’s recollections. Relations between France and the rest of Europe, with Russia in particular – Causes and preparations for war Through the Peace of Vienna of 1809 and its consequences, the family bond established with the Imperial House of Austria, Napoleon had reached the summit of his fortune…

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  July 20, 2023

  1812 Campaign, French-Allied forces, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs

  1812, Accomodation, Army of Moldavia, Austria, Baden, Battle of Smolensk, Battle of the Berezina, Bivouac, Borodino, Burning of Moscow, Confederation of the Rhine, Continental System, Cossacks, Courland, Daily life, Danzig, Diplomacy, Doctor, Drissa, Duna, Dysentery, Elbing, Emperor, Fatigue, Frankfurt, Gdansk, General Chichagov, General Wintzingerode, General Wittgenstein, Germany, Hospital, Illness, Imprisonment, Jews, Königsberg, Kovno, Kremlin, Lancers, Looting, Mainz, Marienburg, Marshal Bernadotte, Marshal Murat, Marshal Victor, Moscow, Mozhaysk, Napoleon, Negotiations, Niemen, Occupation, Oder, Officer, Orsha, Ostrovno, Ottoman Empire, Paris, Pillage, Podolia, Poland, Pommerania, Prisoner of war, Prussia, Rearguard, Russia, Schwarzenberg, Scorched earth, Smolensk, St Petersburg, Stettin, Stralsund, Supplies, Sweden, Tilsit, Tsar Alexander, Vermin, Vienna, Vilna, Vistula, Vitebsk, Warsaw

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

  

  … At Pamplona in March 1812, General Dorsenne, whose health was a source of serious concern, became extremely ill. Ulliac, the army’s chief surgeon, suggested operating him. The ailment manifested itself as severe headache. The general hesitated for a long time; he had the most magnificent hair in the world and it was a form…

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  July 6, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Engineers, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer, Peninsular War

  1812, Armistice, Baron Larrey, Battle of the Berezina, Berlin, Bivouac, Borisov, Borodino, Burning of Moscow, Colonel, Cossacks, Daily life, Emperor, Foodstuffs, General Dorsenne, General Kirgener, General Lauriston, General Montbrun, General Sébastiani, Grand Marshal Duroc, Grants, Grenadiers, Hessians, Injuries, Königsberg, Kovno, Kremlin, Mainz, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Bessières, Marshal Murat, Marshal Ney, Marshal Oudinot, Moscow, Napoleon, Narbonne, Orsha, Pamplona, Paris, Retreat, Russia, Smorgon', Soisy-sous-Étiolles, Spain, St Petersburg, Supplies, Surgeon, Tarutino, Vilna, Vitoria

• General Doumerc and his cuirassiers at the Berezina …

  

  This report contains details on General Jean-Pierre Doumerc’s (1767-1847) role and his cavalry’s actions during the battle of the Berezina … I CAVALRY CORPS 3RD CUIRASSIER DIVISION SIRE, In the thirty years I have been serving (the army), I have never been reproached for my military conduct. Your Imperial Majesty told me yesterday, after the…

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  June 3, 2023

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

  1812, Battle of the Berezina, Cossacks, Count de Langeron, Cuirassier, Desertion, Dragoons, Fatigue, General Doumerc, General Merle, Glogau, Marshal Ney, Marshal Victor, Prisoner of war, Retreat, Russia, Smorgon'

• The Berezina in the spring of 1813 …

  

  The Württemberg surgeon Henri de Roos, taken prisoner at the Berezina and attached to the Russian hospitals, was still at Borisov in 1813. In his ‘Memoirs’, he describes what had become of Studienka and the region itself a few months later. Arthur CHUQUET. One Sunday during spring I carried out the plan I had been…

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  April 13, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Battle, French-Allied forces, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer

  1812, Battle of the Berezina, Bautzen, Bivouac, Borisov, Bridge, Clothing, Confederation of the Rhine, Conscript, Daily life, Decorations, Fatigue, General Wintzingerode, Hospital, Hunger, Illness, Looting, Peasants, Pillage, Retreat, River, Russia, St Petersburg, Studienka, Supplies, Surgeon, Württemberg

• The plight of an officer in the train (transport logistics), 1812-1813

  

  Here are the ‘Recollections’ of Nicolas Nottat, brigadier in the Train Regiment. This account was published the first time in June 1939 in the ‘Revue d’Histoire’, by the Reserve Captain Pierre Arnoult. A second publication dates from October 1953 in the ‘Revue du Train’ at the initiative of Mr. Péchon, President of the Train Cadets…

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  March 27, 2023

  1812 Campaign, 1813 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Engineers, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Memoirs, Officer, Soldier

  1812, Austria, Battle of the Berezina, Berlin, Bivouac, Bohemia, Borisov, Breslau, Burning of Moscow, Captivity, Cossacks, Custrin, Daily life, Dragoons, Fatigue, Fodder, Foodstuffs, Graudenz, Hungary, Hunger, Imprisonment, Kalmyks, Königsberg, Kovno, Liegnitz, Mainz, Marshal Murat, Orsha, Outpost, Peasants, Poland, Prague, Prisoner of war, Prussia, Quartermaster, Russia, Saxony, Sergeant, Silesia, Smolensk, Stettin, Supplies, Thorn, Train, Vilna, Vistula

• A war commissioner’s account on the battle of the Berezina …

  

  Alexandre Bellot de Kergorre (1784-1840) recounts the events that took place at the banks of the Berezina … … The Army of Moldavia had such a great influence on the events of the 1812 campaign that its actions deserve to be recounted. At the beginning of 1812, Russia was still at war with Turkey and…

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  March 23, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Engineers, French-Allied forces, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer, Soldier

  1812, Army of Moldavia, Army of Volhynia, Austria, Battle of the Berezina, Bivouac, Bobr, Borisov, Cossacks, Daily life, Duchy of Warsaw, Dvina, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, General Chichagov, General Loison, General Reynier, General Sacken, General Wittgenstein, Hunger, Kutuzov, Light Infantry, Marshal Oudinot, Marshal St Cyr, Marshal Victor, Minsk, Poland, Retreat, Russia, Schwarzenberg, Smolensk, Supplies, Vanguard, Vitebsk, Voltigeurs

• A letter of General Partouneaux to Marshal Berthier …

  

  We are familiar with how General Partouneaux, who had departed from Borisov, suddenly found himself cut off from Studienka. He had only 3,400 men left, yet he resolutely attacked the enemy. His efforts were frustrated by the superiority of the enemy forces and he was forced to surrender. Napoleon, in his 29th Bulletin, reported that…

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  November 10, 2022

  1812 Campaign, Battle, General staff, Generals, Marshals, Reports

  1812, Battle of the Berezina, Borisov, Bulletin, Colonel, General Chichagov, General Partouneaux, General Platov, General Wittgenstein, Marshal Berthier, Retreat, Russia, St Petersburg

• The death of a Swiss artillery officer, Russia 1812 …

  

  The year eighteen hundred and fifteen, 18th of May. At the hearing of the Peace Magistrate of the District of Moudon, on the requisition of Lieutenant-Colonel François-Louis-Benjamin Burnand of this municipality, for the purpose of summoning to this hearing Mr. Jaques Voruz, attached to the artillery corps of the 1st Swiss Regiment, for the purpose…

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  September 29, 2022

  1812 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Letters – Correspondence, Officer, Reports, Soldier

  1812, Battle of the Berezina, Borisov, Captain, Captivity, General Partouneaux, Injuries, Prisoner of war, Retreat, Russia, Swiss, Voltigeurs