Tag: Brigadier

• 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

• Correspondence from Charleroi conscripts under Napoleon (II) …

  

  Letters from Pierre-Joseph Guilbert to his father Pierre-Joseph Guilbert was born in Jumet on 18 March 1781. He was the son of Charles and Marie Perony. A conscript of the Year IX (1800), he became a fusilier in the 5th Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 94th Line Infantry Regiment, 3rd Division of the…

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  February 26, 2024

  1805 Campaign, 1806 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Generals, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Peninsular War, Soldier

  Accomodation, Armistice, Austria, Baden, Battle of Austerlitz, Bavaria, Belgian, Belgium, Billet, Bivouac, Black Forest, Brigadier, British, Castile, Certificate, Charleroi, Conscript, Conscription, Cuirassier, Daily life, Desertion, Draft evasion, Dragoons, Duke of Wellington, Emperor Francis of Austria, Equipment, Family, Fürth, Fleurus, France, Freiburg im Breisgau, Fusiliers, Galicia (Spain), General Auguste de Caulaincourt, Germany, Hanover, Injuries, Joseph Bonaparte, Jumet, King Charles IV of Spain, Legion of Honour, Madrid, Marshal Jourdan, Marshal Murat, Merbes-le-Château, Misery, Mounted Carabiniers, Poland, Portugal, Prisoner of war, Prussia, Quartermaster, Religion, Rhine, Royal Guard, Russia, Saxony, Spain, Strasbourg, Tagus, Talavera, Train, Tsar Alexander, Württemberg, Weaponsmith

• Remarks on the battle of Wagram, by General Édouard Colbert …

  

  General Pierre David Édouard de Colbert-Chabanais (1774-1853), in his ‘Unpublished Remarks’, wrote a concise account of the battle of Wagram. Its simplicity and modesty enhance its interest. We reproduce it here verbatim, together with some other manuscripts that he drew up. According to the orders given the day before by Napoleon, the French light cavalry…

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  December 6, 2023

  1809 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Allied (Coalition) forces, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, French-Allied forces, General staff, Generals, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer

  Accomodation, Aide-de-camp, Ammunition, Archduke Charles, Austria, Batteries, Battle of Aspern-Essling, Battle of Wagram, Bivouac, Brigadier, Chasseur à Cheval, Count Daru, Danube, Emperor, Empress Marie-Louise, Eugène de Beauharnais, General Auguste Colbert, General Bruyère, General Dupas, General Edouard Colbert, General Jacquinot, General Lasalle, General Lauriston, General Marulaz, General Montbrun, General Morand, General Pajol, General Piré, Guns, Hungary, Imperial Guard, Injuries, Italy, Light Cavalry, Lobau, Marshal Bernadotte, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Davout, Marshal Masséna, Marshal Oudinot, Moravia, Napoleon, Outpost, Pontoon, Prisoner of war, Recovery, Redoubts, Retreat, River, Rosenberg, Saxony, Vanguard, Vienna, Znaïm