Tag: British

• The experiences of Dragoon Auguste de Maupas in Spain and Portugal, 1808-1812 (II)

  

  Valladolid, 5 December 1809. – I only have time to send you an embrace and inform you that I am in good health. We have arrived at Valladolid, where we will stay with General Kellerman until further notice. We engaged in a number of affairs which I am sure you will be able to find…

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  May 6, 2024

  Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer, Peninsular War, Soldier

  Abrantes, Accomodation, Administration, Alba de Tormes, Alcanizas, Alenquer, Almeida, Ammunition, Army of Portugal, Avila, Battle of Bussaco, Billet, Bivouac, Brigands, British, Burgos, Cadre, Captain, Coimbra, Daily life, Depot, Desertion, Dragoons, Duke of Wellington, Equipment, Extremadura, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, Fortifications, France, General Brenier, General Kellerman, General Montbrun, Guerilla, Lancers, Leiria, Lieutenant, Limoges, Lisbon, Madrid, Marshal Masséna, Marshal Ney, Ourém, Outpost, Placencia, Pombal, Portugal, Prisoner of war, Promotion, Punhete, Rain, Rearguard, Reconnaissance, Redinha, Retirement, Retreat, River, Rodrigo, Salamanca, Spain, Supplies, Tagus, Valladolid, Viseu, Zamora, Zêzere

• Recollections on the battle of Salamanca, 1812 …

  

  Alphonse d’Hautpoul was born at Versailles on 4 January 1789. He was a cousin of the cavalry general of the same name, who lost his life at the battle at Eylau. Alphonse’s brother, Amand, served in the horse artillery of the Imperial Guard. Attending the Military School at Fontainebleau, Alphonse departed there as a second…

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  April 15, 2024

  Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Marshals, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer, Peninsular War

  1812, Accomodation, Arapiles, Army of Portugal, Aspecia, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Friedland, Battle of Salamanca, British, Captain, Captivity, Clothing, Colonel, Daily life, Doctor, Duke of Wellington, Eagle, England, Fever, Fontainebleau, Gangrene, General Bonnet, General Clauzel, General Curto, General d'Hautpoul, General Ferey, General Foy, General Hill, General Maucune, General Taupin, General Thomières, Guerilla, Hanover, Health, Heat, Horse Artillery, Hospital, Illness, Imprisonment, Injuries, Insurgency, Italy, Légion du Midi, Line infantry, Manoeuvres, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Ney, Military School, Misery, Peninsular War, Poland, Porto, Portugal, Prussia, Religion, Salamanca, Scottish, Second Lieutenant, Sergeant, Skirmishers, Spain, Square, Surgeon, Tormes, Transport, Treatment, Vermin, Versailles

• Dragoon Louis Vesuty at Boulogne …

  

  The 10th Dragoons, our narrator’s regiment, maintained a permanent detachment at Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme to train in the manoeuvres of boarding longboats and assembling into flotillas. 19 Pluviôse, Year XII. A few words in a rush; I am embarked with one hundred men of our regiment on board the gunboat no. 216. We are waiting day by…

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  April 11, 2024

  1805 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Letters – Correspondence, Soldier

  Barges, Bivouac, British, Camp of Boulogne, Captain, Chasseur à Cheval, Clothing, Daily life, Detachment, Dragoons, Equipment, Flatboats, Flotilla, Gunboat, Hospital, Illness, Le Havre, Locals, Manoeuvres, Money, Napoleon, Outpost, Pas-de-Calais, Sailors, Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme, Sea, Ships, Training, Transport

• 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

• Extracts from the livre d’ordre of the 12th Light Infantry Regiment during the Peninsular War …

  

  Order of 18 March 1811 The regiment is hereby informed that His Excellency Marshal Soult has achieved the most brilliant success during his expedition following the capture of Olivera, where he took 4,500 prisoners. He battled two Spanish and Portuguese divisions whose positions covered the city of Badagos [sic, Badajoz]. These two divisions were defeated,…

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  January 30, 2024

  Battle, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer, Peninsular War, Reports

  Accomodation, Administration, Army of Portugal, Badajoz, Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro, Billet, Bivouac, British, Captain, Carabiniers, Cartridges, Chasseur, Colonel, Cornet, Corporal, Cuidad Rodrigo, Daily life, Death penalty, Desertion, Discharge, Discipline, Drill, Equipment, Fatigue, Fourrier, General Reynaud, Grants, Headquarters, Inspection, Insubordination, Insurgency, Light Infantry, Marshal Masséna, Marshal Soult, Misconduct, Moral, Murder, Musician, Officer, Olivera, Orders, Outpost, Parades, Peninsular War, Portugal, Portuguese, Promotion, Retirement, Review, Roll call, Sergeant, Sergeant-major, Siege, Spain, Training, Trumpeter, Villagarcia, Voltigeurs

• Dedicated to the Imperial Cause – Letters of the Dandalle Family (I) …

  

  Introductions by the authors The reader is in for a unique experience from the outset, as the authenticity of the study’s content is striking. The sense of duty, the boundless admiration for their Emperor, Napoleon I, made these officers from the ranks perform nearly astonishing feats. They travelled the length and breadth of Europe, as…

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  December 16, 2023

  1805 Campaign, 1806 Campaign, 1807 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Armistice, Auerstedt, Austerlitz, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Jena, Belgium, Berlin, Billet, Bivouac, Brest, British, Captain, Chasseur, Chouans, Company, Conscript, Conscription, Cossacks, Custrin, Daily life, Depot, Elbe, Emperor, Family, Franconia, Germany, Grants, Hunger, Huningue, Imperial Guard, Injuries, Italy, Küstrin, Lieutenant, Light Infantry, Lille, Marshal Murat, Napoleon, NCO, Normandy, Pay, Peace, Poland, Posen, Potsdam, Prussia, Roads, Saale, Sarnowo, Saxony, Sergeant-major, Skirmishers, Sockoczim, Supplies, Tsar Alexander, Vendée, Vistula, Voltigeurs, Warsaw, Weimar, Winter

• Correspondence between Caulaincourt and Talleyrand (IV) …

  

  The marriage of Edmond de Périgord Talleyrand, finally appointed by the Emperor to accompany him, arrived at Erfurt on 24 September. Caulaincourt was already there. It is not the occasion here to explain again the strange conduct of the Prince of Benevento during these very important days. The history is well established on this point.…

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  October 2, 2023

  Aide-de-camp, Anecdotes, Diplomacy, General staff, Generals, Letters – Correspondence, Officer, Reports

  Baden, Bayonne, Berlin, British, Canning, Corps législatif, Courland, Czartoryski, De Canisy, Diplomacy, Duchess of Dino, Embassy, Erfurt, Eugène de Beauharnais, Fontanes, General Caulaincourt (Master of Horse), Germany, Grand Marshal Duroc, Intrigue, Löbichau, Madrid, Marriage, Minister of Foreign Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Napoleon, Negotiations, Nompère de Champagny, Peninsular War, Rumyantsev, Russia, Spain, St Petersburg, Talleyrand, Tsar Alexander, Tuileries

• A selection of Peninsular War letters of the rank and file …

  

  Stamp: (illegible number), FRENCH ARMY IN SPAIN. Mister Even, mayor of Beaufort, Department of Forests, Canton of Echternach, arrondissement of Bitbourg, via Paris. (Medina de) Rioseco, 24 August (1811). Dear father, Your long silence would certainly cause me to have doubts; only the filial love you have always fostered in me makes me think that…

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  August 29, 2023

  Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Officer, Peninsular War, Police – Gendarmerie, Soldier

  Aragon, Bastogne, Bayonne, Bread, Brigands, British, Burgos, Certificate, Clervaux, Cogorderos, Conscript, Conscription, Cuirassier, Daily life, Draft, Draft evasion, Foodstuffs, Gendarme, Gendarmerie, General Valletaux, Guerilla, Gunner, Illness, Imprisonment, Insurgency, Jaca, Leon, Lisbon, Luxembourg, Madrid, Marshal Bessières, Money, Moral, Oviedo, Palencia, Paris, Peasants, Peninsular War, Portugal, Prisoner of war, Pyrenees, Religion, Rioseco, Spain, Supplies, Tolosa, Training, Vitoria, Voltigeurs

• Correspondence between Caulaincourt and Talleyrand (III) …

  

  Baron Lelorgne d’Ideville, who later became an auditor at the Conseil d’État and the Emperor’s secretary, was then attached to the Ministry of Foreign Relations, and ought to have passed on the new letter Talleyrand wrote on 16 March. Madame de Canisy’s affairs were hardly proceeding. There was talk of the marriage of Antoinette de…

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  August 28, 2023

  Anecdotes, Diplomacy, General staff, Generals, Letters – Correspondence

  Asturias, Balkans, Baron, Bayonne, Bordeaux, Bourbons, British, Confederation of the Rhine, Conseil d'Etat, Dalberg, De Canisy, Denmark, Earl of Lauderdale, Emperor, Erfurt, Expedition, Finland, Flahaut, General Caulaincourt (Master of Horse), General Savary, Godoy, Grand Marshal Duroc, Grants, Helsinki, Hortense De Beauharnais, Hugues-Bernard Maret, Imprisonment, James Maitland, Joséphine, King Charles IV of Spain, Kingdom of Holland, Levant, Madame Visconti, Madrid, Marriage, Marshal Bernadotte, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Murat, Minister of Foreign Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moldavia, Napoleon, Napoleon III, Negotiations, Nompère de Champagny, Normandy, Ottoman Empire, Paris, Partition, Police, Prince, Prince of Peace, Prince-Primat, Prussia, Russia, Saint-Aignan, Spain, Sweden, Talleyrand, Tolstoy, Treaty, Tsar Alexander, Valençay, Wallachia

• Cuirassier Jean de Gouttes’ correspondence on Ulm and Austerlitz …

  

  La Ferté-sous-Jouarre (Seine-et-Marne), 16 Fructidor Year XIII (3 September 1805). You will no doubt be surprised to receive a letter from me dated from La Ferté; I confess that I did not expect to be leaving it so soon, even though I knew that we were due to depart from Versailles shortly. Mr. Salvaing may…

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  August 24, 2023

  1805 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Austria, Baden, Battle of Austerlitz, Bavaria, Billet, Bridge, British, Camp of Boulogne, Chalons, Cisalpine Republic, Cuirassier, Danube, Depot, Desertion, Elchingen, Emperor, Emperor Francis of Austria, Equipment, Flag, General d'Hautpoul, General Mack, General Saint-Sulpice, Germany, Hungary, Illness, Imprisonment, Invasion, Italy, La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, Landau, Light Infantry, Marshal Murat, Marshal Ney, Marshal Soult, Memmingen, Metz, Money, Munich, Napoleon, Paris, Poverty, Prisoner of war, Rhine, Russia, Sarreguemines, Strasbourg, Ulm, Vanguard, Verdun, Vienna, Württemberg