Tag: Croats
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Officer Boudousquie (18th Line) on the road to Russia, 1812 (I) …
Pierre-Alain Boudousquie was born on 9 May 1791 at Cahors, where his father was a director of messengers. Before entering the Ecole Militaire, he had to complete a solid education, as can be deduced from this extract from one of his letters, written in August 1807 (he was then sixteen): ‘I was awarded four first…