Tag: Dvina

• 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

• An Italian, the Grande Armée and the campaign of 1812 …

  

  The Biblioteca Estense in Modena preserves the original copies of a substantial set of letters written by an unsung soldier of the Army of the Kingdom of Italy, Paolo Magelli, born at Pavullo in 1785. These were addressed to his elder brother Giustiniano. In contrast, the correspondence does not contain the letters written by Giustiniano…

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  September 13, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, French-Allied forces, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Marshals, Officer, Soldier

  1812, Accomodation, Battle of Maloyaroslavets, Bavaria, Bivouac, Borodino, Burning of Moscow, Cold, Cossacks, Daily life, Dvina, Emperor, Eugène de Beauharnais, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, Frost, Grants, Hunger, Illness, Imperial Guard, Italy, Jérôme Bonaparte, Jews, Kaluga, Königsberg, Lithuania, Looting, Marienwerder, Marshal Murat, Milan, Modena, Money, Moscow, Mozhaysk, Napoleon, Niemen, Pillage, Poland, Prussia, Religion, Retreat, Royal Guard, Russia, Saxony, Silesia, Supplies, Surazh, Tsar Alexander, Vélite, Vermin, Vilna, Westphalia

• Eyewitness accounts of the campaign in Russia, 1812 (III) …

  

  A letter from Baptiste Massicoir to his father: From Rostenbourg, (this) 20 August 1812. My dear father, This letter is to inform me of the state of your health and that of my brother and sisters. I am doing well. I hope with all my heart that this letter finds you all well. My dear…

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  July 16, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer, Soldier

  1812, Antwerp, Berlin, Bivouac, Bread, Bridge, Cossacks, Daily life, Detachment, Dunaburg, Dvina, Emperor, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, General Wittgenstein, Grants, Hunger, Imprisonment, Königsberg, Latvia, Light Infantry, Living off the land, Looting, Lorient, Mainz, Marshal Oudinot, Marshal Victor, Money, Moral, Moscow, Napoleon, Niemen, Peasants, Pillage, Poland, Polotsk, Prisoner of war, Promotion, Rearguard, River, Russia, Scorched earth, Second Lieutenant, Sergeant, St Petersburg, Supplies, Warsaw, Westphalia

• The early stages of the Russian campaign, recounted by an officer …

  

  … On my arrival at Berlin, I received the order to proceed to Warsaw, carrying dispatches to Prince Jérôme; my instructions required me to follow the operations of this army corps until further notice. On the departure of King Jérôme, who was displeased to see himself placed under the command of Marshal Davout, I left…

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  June 28, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, French-Allied forces, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer

  1812, Appointment, Austria, Battle of Smolensk, Battle of Valutino, Berlin, Bivouac, Chasseur à Cheval, Chief of Staff, Colonel, Daily life, Duchy of Warsaw, Dvina, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, General Friant, General Gérard, General Grabowski, General Gudin, General Junot, General Latour-Maubourg, General Marchand, General Reynier, General Sébastiani, General Vandamme, Grenadiers, Headquarters, Heat, Imperial Guard, Injuries, Insubordination, Jérôme Bonaparte, Kovno, Krasny, Lancers, Legion of Honour, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Davout, Marshal Poniatowski, Mir, Mogilev, Mud, Niemen, Poland, Prince Bagration, Promotion, River, Russia, Saxony, Schwarzenberg, Scorched earth, Supplies, Vilna, Vitebsk, Voltigeurs, Westphalia

• A war commissioner’s account on the battle of the Berezina …

  

  Alexandre Bellot de Kergorre (1784-1840) recounts the events that took place at the banks of the Berezina … … The Army of Moldavia had such a great influence on the events of the 1812 campaign that its actions deserve to be recounted. At the beginning of 1812, Russia was still at war with Turkey and…

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  March 23, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Engineers, French-Allied forces, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer, Soldier

  1812, Army of Moldavia, Army of Volhynia, Austria, Battle of the Berezina, Bivouac, Bobr, Borisov, Cossacks, Daily life, Duchy of Warsaw, Dvina, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, General Chichagov, General Loison, General Reynier, General Sacken, General Wittgenstein, Hunger, Kutuzov, Light Infantry, Marshal Oudinot, Marshal St Cyr, Marshal Victor, Minsk, Poland, Retreat, Russia, Schwarzenberg, Smolensk, Supplies, Vanguard, Vitebsk, Voltigeurs

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

  

  Near Culm, on the Vistula, 31 May 1812. Your letter reached me the day before yesterday at Culm, my dear mother, at the same time as my lieutenant’s commission, which dates back only to 5 May. I am very pleased to have been appointed before the Emperor’s review, for he might still have found fault…

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  December 12, 2022

  1812 Campaign, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer, Soldier

  1812, Accomodation, Bivouac, Daily life, Dvina, Emperor, Foodstuffs, General Caulaincourt (Master of Horse), Grants, Inspection, Lieutenant, Marshal Murat, Moscow, Napoleon, Niemen, Poland, Promotion, Review, Riga, Russia, Thorn, Vilna, Vistula

• 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

• A letter to Marshal Macdonald, Russia 1812 …

  

  Hugues-Bernard Maret, the Duke of Bassano and Minister of Foreign Relations, who had remained in Vilna (Vilnius), provided Marshal Macdonald with news on 5 September 1812 and passed on the Emperor’s instructions to him. The duke retraced the march of the army of which Eugène and Poniatowski formed the wings, and he reproached the Russians…

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  August 19, 2022

  1812 Campaign, General staff, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Reports

  Barclay de Tolly, Cossacks, Duke of Bassano, Dvina, Eugène de Beauharnais, Hugues-Bernard Maret, Imperial Guard, Kutuzov, Marshal Davout, Marshal Macdonald, Marshal Murat, Marshal Ney, Marshal Poniatowski, Marshal St Cyr, Marshal Victor, Minister of Foreign Relations, Moscow, Vilna, Vyazma