Tag: Dnieper

• 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

• Officer Boudousquie (18th Line) on the road to Russia, 1812 (V) …

  

  A letter to his banker … At Czernigow (Chernihiv), 8 December 1812. I only received your letter of 16 September yesterday, with two others from my father, one of 17 June and the other dated 4 September. For a long time now I have been supplied with nothing but grief and bitterness. I am delighted…

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  December 28, 2022

  Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, French-Allied forces, General staff, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Marshals, Officer, Soldier

  1812, Chernihiv, Cossacks, Daily life, Dnieper, Eugène de Beauharnais, Injuries, Krasnoi, Lieutenant, Marshal Davout, Marshal Ney, Money, Pillage, Prisoner of war, Retreat, Russia, Smolensk, St Petersburg, Vyazma

• The aftermath of the battle of Smolensk, through a letter …

  

  Staff officer Nicolas Planat de la Faye, aide-de-camp to General Lariboisière, writes to a friend on the consequences of the battle he witnessed a few days prior … To Constant D***. Smolensk, 20 August 1812. My dear Constant, We finally caught up with the Russians in front of Smolensk on the 17th of this month.…

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  September 6, 2022

  1812 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, General staff, Letters – Correspondence, Officer

  1812, Battle of Smolensk, Daily life, Dnieper, Dvina, General Lariboisière, Russia