Tag: Bulletin
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Imperial decrees related to POWs, desertion and call to arms, 1806-1814
Year 1806 (N° 1,167) – IMPERIAL DECREE relating to the prosecution of offences committed by prisoners of war. At the Imperial headquarters at Brünn, 17 Frimaire. NAPOLEON, EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH, KING OF ITALY, HAS DECREED and HEREBY DECREES the following: Art. 1. Offences committed by prisoners of war throughout our Empire are under the…
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A letter of General Partouneaux to Marshal Berthier …
We are familiar with how General Partouneaux, who had departed from Borisov, suddenly found himself cut off from Studienka. He had only 3,400 men left, yet he resolutely attacked the enemy. His efforts were frustrated by the superiority of the enemy forces and he was forced to surrender. Napoleon, in his 29th Bulletin, reported that…