Tag: Borovsk

• 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 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