Tag: Don Benito

• Second Lieutenant Zickel’s letters from Spain, 1808-1809 …

  

  Here we have François-Joseph Zickel, an officer in the 10th Regiment of Chasseurs à Cheval, after nine years’ service and almost as many campaigns. His ‘new epaulette’ received its baptism of fire at Friedland on 14 June 1807. Then, after the peace of Tilsit and a few months’ well-earned rest, the two Zickel brothers moved…

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  June 2, 2023

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