Tag: Bischofswerda

• Guard Grenadier Philippe Ballut at Lützen and Bautzen, 1813 …

  

  In the evening, with the 2nd Grenadier Regiment occupying the ground on a plateau, the soldiers sighted the town of Lützen, with its round bell tower and a tall belfry tower dominating the large tile roofed buildings. The French cavalry had already entered the town to capture a few stragglers. It was known that Blücher…

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  April 8, 2024

  1813 Campaign, Allied (Coalition) forces, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Aide-de-camp, Ambulance, Austria, Baden, Baggage, Battle of Bautzen, Battle of Lützen, Bautzen, Bischofswerda, Bivouac, Blücher, Brandy, Bread, Captain, Conscript, Cossacks, Crime, Daily life, Dresden, Elbe, Elster, Emperor, Espionage, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, Görlitz, General Bertrand, General Bonnet, General Brenier, General Charpentier, General Compans, General Gérard, General Kirgener, General Marchand, General Morand, General Ricard, General Roguet, General Souham, General Wittgenstein, Grand Marshal Duroc, Grenadiers, Hessians, Hunger, Hussars, Imperial Guard, Kaya, Lancers, Lützen, Leipzig, Locals, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Macdonald, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Ney, Marshal Oudinot, Medical Officer, Money, Napoleon, Old Guard, Peasants, Pegau, Pillage, Poland, Prussia, Quartermaster, Reconnaissance, Retreat, River, Russia, Saxony, Sergeant-major, Silesia, Spree, Supplies, Te Deum, Theft, Transport, Tsar Alexander, Weisig, Weissenfels, Woods, Young Guard

• Captain Sibelet’s 1813 experiences …

  

  Here we have an excerpt of the unpublished military memoirs of Jean-Pierre Sibelet, Officer of the Legion of Honour, retired captain of the 11th Regiment of Chasseurs à Cheval. He returned to the service in 1812 in the 25th Cohort and became a grenadier captain for the 145th Line Regiment on 18 February 1813. Readers…

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  June 15, 2023

  1813 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer

  Accomodation, Amputation, Austria, Batteries, Battle of Bautzen, Bautzen, Bischofswerda, Bivouac, Captain, Chasseur à Cheval, Clergy, Cossacks, Daily life, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, Germany, Hospital, Illness, Injuries, Legion of Honour, Locals, Money, Peasants, Prussia, River, Russia, Spree, Supplies, Surgeon, Transport

• An Imperial Guard commander and the 1813 Campaign (I) …

  

  We follow Louis-Joseph Vionnet, Viscount of Maringoné, and his soldiers of the Imperial Guard throughout the 1813 campaign in Germany. … On 30 March at four in the morning, I received the order to depart the next day before daylight. I hastily arranged my affairs and those of the regiment and spent the whole night…

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  May 4, 2023

  1813 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Memoirs, Officer, Soldier

  Bautzen, Bischofswerda, Bivouac, Bohemia, Bondy, Châlons, Château-Thierry, Cossacks, Daily life, Dresden, Elbe, France, Frankfurt, Fulda, Fusiliers, General Lanusse, Germany, King Frederick William III of Prussia, Lancers, Lützen, Mainz, Marne, Prague, Prussia, Russia, Saxony, Tsar Alexander, Verdun, Voltigeurs, Young Guard