Tag: Espionage

• Guard Grenadier Philippe Ballut at Lützen and Bautzen, 1813 …

  

  In the evening, with the 2nd Grenadier Regiment occupying the ground on a plateau, the soldiers sighted the town of Lützen, with its round bell tower and a tall belfry tower dominating the large tile roofed buildings. The French cavalry had already entered the town to capture a few stragglers. It was known that Blücher…

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  April 8, 2024

  1813 Campaign, Allied (Coalition) forces, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Aide-de-camp, Ambulance, Austria, Baden, Baggage, Battle of Bautzen, Battle of Lützen, Bautzen, Bischofswerda, Bivouac, Blücher, Brandy, Bread, Captain, Conscript, Cossacks, Crime, Daily life, Dresden, Elbe, Elster, Emperor, Espionage, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, Görlitz, General Bertrand, General Bonnet, General Brenier, General Charpentier, General Compans, General Gérard, General Kirgener, General Marchand, General Morand, General Ricard, General Roguet, General Souham, General Wittgenstein, Grand Marshal Duroc, Grenadiers, Hessians, Hunger, Hussars, Imperial Guard, Kaya, Lancers, Lützen, Leipzig, Locals, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Macdonald, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Ney, Marshal Oudinot, Medical Officer, Money, Napoleon, Old Guard, Peasants, Pegau, Pillage, Poland, Prussia, Quartermaster, Reconnaissance, Retreat, River, Russia, Saxony, Sergeant-major, Silesia, Spree, Supplies, Te Deum, Theft, Transport, Tsar Alexander, Weisig, Weissenfels, Woods, Young Guard

• Some notes of a grenadier of the Imperial Guard, 1813 …

  

  A couple of passages of a journal kept by Philippe Ballut, a soldier serving in the 2nd Grenadier Regiment of the Guard, related to the early stages of the 1813 Campaign … Thursday, 29 April. – The Old Guard arrived at Naumburg before noon and we lit our fires at the foot of the tower,…

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  January 29, 2024

  1813 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Engineers, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Memoirs, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Alsace, Billet, Bivouac, Chasseur à Cheval de la Garde Impériale, Colonel, Conscript, Corporal, Cossacks, Daily life, Dresden, Emperor, Equipment, Erfurt, Espionage, Fatigue, General Berthezène, General Souham, Grand Marshal Duroc, Grenadiers, Hussars, Imperial Guard, Jena, Leipzig, Locals, Mamelukes, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Bessières, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Ney, Napoleon, Naumburg, Old Guard, Paris, Peace, Pillage, Prussia, Rain, Russia, Saale, Sappers, Saxony, Tsar Alexander, Weimar, Weissenfels, Young Guard

• Report of a cavalry NCO, 1809 …

  

  The document we are publishing was written by a non-commissioned officer in the chasseurs of General Montbrun’s Cavalry Division. On the eve of the battle of Essling, this NCO was sent with a safeguard in the direction of Raab (in reality to reconnoitre the enemy assemblies on that side) and was taken prisoner by the…

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  September 1, 2023

  1809 Campaign, Allied (Coalition) forces, Cavalry, French-Allied forces, General staff, Letters – Correspondence, Officer, Reports, Soldier

  Accomodation, Altenburg, Battle of Aspern-Essling, Captivity, Chasseur à Cheval, Espionage, Fortifications, General Montbrun, Hungary, Imprisonment, Insurgency, Intelligence, Light Cavalry, NCO, Outpost, Prisoner of war, Raab, Rearguard

• Reports prior and concerning the battle of Bautzen, 1813 …

  

  A fascinating selection of accounts on a significant battle of the 1813 campaign … At the camp in front of Bautzen, 17 May 1813. The town of Bautzen, located on the right bank of the Spree, is covered by this river, which flows, as it seems, at the foot of the wall which surrounds the…

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  February 7, 2023

  1813 Campaign, Allied (Coalition) forces, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Engineers, French-Allied forces, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer, Reports, Soldier

  Austria, Barclay de Tolly, Batteries, Battle of Bautzen, Bavaria, Blücher, Breslau, Captain, Cossacks, Count de Langeron, Cracow, Emperor, Espionage, Görlitz, General Barrois, General Kleist, General Lauriston, General Lefebvre-Desnoëttes, General Miloradovich, General Sébastiani, General Yorck, Hungary, Imprisonment, Intelligence, Interpreter, Landwehr, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Victor, Napoleon, Olmütz, Petit Quartier Général, Poland, Prisoner of war, Prussia, Redoubts, River, Russia, Saxony, Siege, Spree, Young Guard

• Spying on the Prussian army, 1809 …

  

  Stettin, 22 January 1809. Monsieur le Maréchal (Davout), According to the latest reports from an associate whom I sent to Starqard, and who has managed to make contact with someone who is very close to General Blücher, it is a fact that Prussia is recruiting troops, and that it is not former soldiers who are…

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  December 5, 2022

  1809 Campaign, General staff, Generals, Letters – Correspondence, Reports

  Blücher, Espionage, General Le Blond de Saint-Hilaire, King Frederick William III of Prussia, Levy, Marshal Davout, Pomerania, Prussia, Recruitment, Silesia, Stettin

• Letters and notes for and written by Marshal Suchet, January 1814 …

  

  Barcelona, 25 January 1814. My dear general, Mr. the Marshal particularly entrusts me with the task of sending you the enclosed note as soon as possible. You must not hesitate to hand over your reply to the young man who bears this letter, as I consider him worthy of our confidence. I have the honour…

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  September 15, 2022

  Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Engineers, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer, Peninsular War, Reports, Soldier

  Barcelona, Bivouac, Daily life, Ebro, Empecinado, Espionage, Garrison, General Robert, Marshal Suchet, Siege, Spain, Tortosa, Xerta