Tag: Blockade

• Fourrier François Hinard’s letters on the Austerlitz Campaign …

  

  Here are several lengthy letters of Fourrier François Hinard who served in General (future marshal) Suchet’s Division during the Austerlitz campaign. He provides many interesting details on daily life in the Grande Armée, hardships, money issues, family matters and battlefield experiences. Landshut (1) in Bavaria, 29 October 1805. Dear Rosalie, I can still enjoy the…

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  May 10, 2024

  1805 Campaign, Allied (Coalition) forces, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Diplomacy, Engineers, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer, Reports, Soldier

  Accomodation, Archduke Charles, Austerlitz, Austria, Battle of Austerlitz, Bavaria, Biberach, Billet, Bivouac, Blockade, Bourgeois, Brünn (Brno), Brest, Bulletin, Celebration, Chasseur à Cheval, Conscript, Conscription, Corporal, Coutances, Daily life, Danube, Donauwörth, Dysentery, Emperor, Emperor Francis of Austria, Family, Fatigue, Flag, Foodstuffs, Fourrier, France, Günzburg, General Beker, General Klein, General Mack, Grants, Hardship, Hospital, Howitzer, Hungary, Hunger, Illness, Injuries, Inn, Italy, Landshut, Line infantry, Linz, Locals, Marengo, Marshal Lannes, Marshal Masséna, Marshal Murat, Marshal Ney, Marshal Soult, Marshal Suchet, Money, Moral, Moravia, Napoleon, Normandy, Outpost, Paris, Peace, Postal service, Pressburg, Prisoner of war, Reconnaissance, Recovery, Religion, Retirement, Rhine, River, Russia, Russian Imperial Guard, Schönbrunn, Siege, Skirmishers, Spire, Strasbourg, Supplies, Talleyrand, Tsar Alexander, Tyrol, Ulm, Vienna

• 1813-14 letters from Cuirassier Brigadier Pilloy

  

  The following letters are drawn from a voluminous register which also contains copies of the Emperor’s proclamations, accounts of our narrator’s travels and more or less unusual recipes. The author in question is Étienne-Nicolas Pilloy, born in Santeau, canton of Pithiviers (Loiret), a farmer by trade. Here are his service records: 13th Cuirassier Regiment. Entered…

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  April 18, 2024

  1813 Campaign, 1814 Campaign, Anecdotes, Cavalry, Letters – Correspondence, Soldier

  Alsace, Battle of Waterloo, Bivouac, Blockade, Blois, Brigadier, Caen, Colmar, Conscription, Cossacks, Cuirassier, Daily life, Discharge, Discipline, Equipment, Fortifications, France, General Lemarois, Germany, Hospital, Illness, Labour, Laon, Lieutenant, Loiret, Louvain, Lusignan, Magdeburg, Melun, Metz, Money, Mounted Carabiniers, Mounts, Noirt, Normandy, Orléans, Poitiers, Poitou, Pontoon, Prussia, River, Siege, Supplies, Thionville, Tours, Wesel, Westphalia

• The first years of service of a Swiss surgeon, Italy & Spain (1808-1809)

  

  The following paragraphs are derived from the notebooks of Antoine Kaempfen, a native from Switzerland (Canton of Valais) who would pursue a career in the medical services of the French army. He also wrote recollections on the 1812 campaign in Russia (read an excerpt here). … The arrival of my brevet, by which I was…

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  October 23, 2023

  Anecdotes, French-Allied forces, General staff, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer, Peninsular War, Police – Gendarmerie, Soldier

  Accomodation, Adjudant Major, Administration, Amputation, Battalion Commander, Billet, Bivouac, Blockade, Brigands, Captain, Cowardice, Daily life, Debts, Depot, Discharge, Emperor, Family, Figueras, Gambling, General Reille, Genoa, Girona, Heat, Hospital, Illness, Injuries, Insurgency, Major, Marseille, Medical Officer, Money, Napoleon, Offences, Officer, Outpost, Pay, Peasants, Perpignan, Pyrenees, Religion, Retirement, Romance, Service, Siege, Spain, Supplies, Surgeon, Swiss, Treasurer

• General Rapp at the outset of the siege of Danzig (1813) …

  

  From Smorgoni (Smarhonʹ – Smorgonʹ) in late 1812, Napoleon, at the time of his departure for France after the debacle in Russia, assessing with an experienced eye the precise extent of his reverses, had foreseen the siege of the Vistula places and had sent his intrepid aide-de-camp, General Rapp, to take over the government of…

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  March 21, 2023

  1812 Campaign, 1813 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Engineers, French-Allied forces, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer, Reports

  1812, Accomodation, Administration, Ammunition, Batteries, Blockade, Custrin, Daily life, Dirschau, Elbing, Emperor, Fodder, Foodstuffs, General Bachelu, General de Campredon, General Franceschi, General Gault, General Haxo, General Rapp, General Sorbier, General Yorck, Governor, Königsberg, Marienburg, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Macdonald, Marshal Murat, Minister of War, Napoleon, Oder, Paris, Prussia, Retreat, Russia, Siege of Danzig (1813), Smorgon', Spandau, Stettin, Vilna, Vistula