Tag: Fontainebleau

• The experiences of Dragoon Auguste de Maupas in Spain and Portugal, 1808-1812 (I)

  

  Born on 5 September 1786 in Laon, Aisne, into a noble family originally from Berry, Auguste-Marie was the son of Jérôme Clément Agard, the Marquis of Maupas, and Marie-Madeleine de La Fons d’Happencourt. He married Geneviève-Stéphanie-Félicité-Cécile de Martiny on 2 January 1821. Maupas entered the École Militaire of Fontainebleau on 17 February 1805, and was…

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  May 2, 2024

  Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer, Peninsular War, Soldier

  Aide-de-camp, Aisne, Ambush, Ammunition, Astorga, Asturias, Avignon, Ballesteros, Bayonne, Benavente, Bordeaux, Brigands, Burgos, Castile, Colonel, Daily life, Discipline, Dragoons, Dresden, Duke of Angoulême, Equipment, Execution, Exile, Fontainebleau, France, Garrison, General Bonnet, General Ferrey, General Kellerman, General Marchand, General Thomières, Germany, Guns, Hesdin, Inspection, Insubordination, Insurgency, King Louis XVIII, La Romana, Labagneza, Laon, Leipzig, Leon, Line infantry, Mainz, Mancilla, Marquesito, Marshal Brune, Marshal Masséna, Marshal Ney, Marshal Suchet, Mayorga, Military School, Mounts, Murder, Napoleon, Oviedo, Palencia, Poland, Portugal, Prisoner of war, Review, Rhine, Saint-Dizier, Salamanca, Santander, Scotland, Second Lieutenant, Spain, St-Jean-de-Luz, Toro, Valencia, Valladolid, Villapando, Vitoria, Zamora

• The Military Life of Bruno d’Ast … (III)

  

  In the meantime, Bruno d’Ast’s family was delighted to receive the news that he had been promoted to the Legion of Honour: they knew that this was the award that their son sought above all else, and we will see in one of the following letters the emotion with which he received this distinction, the…

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  April 22, 2024

  1813 Campaign, 1814 Campaign, 1815 Campaign, Battle, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Marshals, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Aide-de-camp, Auch, Battle of Dresden, Battle of Lützen, Battle of Leipzig, Battle of Waterloo, Billet, Bivouac, Cadre, Captain, Caroline Bonaparte, Chasseur, Corporal, Daily life, Dresden, Duke of Wellington, Emperor, Family, Folkwitz, Fontainebleau, General Lanusse, General Ricard, Gers, Glogau, Grants, Imperial Guard, Injuries, King Louis XVIII, Lützen, Legion of Honour, Light Infantry, Mainz, Marriage, Marshal Murat, Marshal Pérignon, Montech, Moscow, Naples, Napoleon, NCO, Neuf-Brisach, Old Guard, Orléans, Paris, Promotion, Prussia, Retirement, Rhine, Sergeant-major, Silesia, Steinau, Tirailleurs, Toulouse, Voltigeurs, Young Guard

• Recollections on the battle of Salamanca, 1812 …

  

  Alphonse d’Hautpoul was born at Versailles on 4 January 1789. He was a cousin of the cavalry general of the same name, who lost his life at the battle at Eylau. Alphonse’s brother, Amand, served in the horse artillery of the Imperial Guard. Attending the Military School at Fontainebleau, Alphonse departed there as a second…

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  April 15, 2024

  Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Marshals, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer, Peninsular War

  1812, Accomodation, Arapiles, Army of Portugal, Aspecia, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Friedland, Battle of Salamanca, British, Captain, Captivity, Clothing, Colonel, Daily life, Doctor, Duke of Wellington, Eagle, England, Fever, Fontainebleau, Gangrene, General Bonnet, General Clauzel, General Curto, General d'Hautpoul, General Ferey, General Foy, General Hill, General Maucune, General Taupin, General Thomières, Guerilla, Hanover, Health, Heat, Horse Artillery, Hospital, Illness, Imprisonment, Injuries, Insurgency, Italy, Légion du Midi, Line infantry, Manoeuvres, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Ney, Military School, Misery, Peninsular War, Poland, Porto, Portugal, Prussia, Religion, Salamanca, Scottish, Second Lieutenant, Sergeant, Skirmishers, Spain, Square, Surgeon, Tormes, Transport, Treatment, Vermin, Versailles

• The Military Life of Bruno d’Ast … (I)

  

  Dominique-Louis-Guillaume-Bruno d’Ast was born on 9 August 1790, in Brignemont. (1) He was the eldest son of Mr. Guillaume d’Ast and Madame Marie-Germaine-Sophie de Pérignon. (2) His godfather was Dominique Catherine de Pérignon, his uncle, an officer in the royal grenadiers in the Quercy Regiment, the future victor of Rosas and Figueras, ambassador of the…

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  March 19, 2024

  1812 Campaign, Letters – Correspondence, Marshals, Officer, Peninsular War, Soldier

  1812, Berlin, Brignemont, Burgos, Castile, Catalonia, Chasseur, Chasseur à Cheval, Clothing, Conscript, Corporal, Daily life, Danzig, Emperor, Family, Fontainebleau, Foodstuffs, Garrison, General Bellavene, Germany, Grants, Grenadiers, Haute-Garonne, Imperial Guard, Inspection, Insurgency, Joseph Bonaparte, Leon, Locals, Marienwerder, Marshal Pérignon, Marshal Victor, Military School, Minister of War, Naples, Napoleon, Palencia, Paris, Peninsular War, Portugal, Postal service, Promotion, Prussia, Review, Rioseco, Russia, Soria, Supplies, Tarazona, Tirailleurs, Toulouse, Uniforms, Vistula, Voltigeurs

• Letters of a Grenadier of the Guard, France 1814 …

  

  The author of these letters, François Franconin (1788-1857), was sergeant-major in the 1st Regiment of the Grenadiers of the Guard. Nogent-sur-Seine, 22 February 1814. I make use of the opportunity of an officer lodged in the same building as myself, who is heading for Paris with dispatches, to inform you that my health is as…

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  April 14, 2023

  1814 Campaign, Battle, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Officer

  Abdication, Austria, Château-Thierry, Emperor, Fontainebleau, France, Grenadiers, Headquarters, Imperial Guard, Montereau, Montmirail, Napoleon, Paris, Promotion, Prussia, Russia, Schwarzenberg, Second Lieutenant, Sergeant-major

• A dragoon and the campaign for France, 1814 …

  

  Louis-Antoine Gougeat (1788-1865) enrolled in a cavalry regiment in 1806. He took part in the campaigns in Spain in the ranks of the 20th Dragoon Regiment. On his return from the Iberian peninsula, he spent some time in Westphalia. In 1814, Gougeat travelled to the Alsace region, to Strasbourg, then to Schlestadt (Sélestat) and continued…

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  February 20, 2023

  1814 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Infantry, Memoirs, Officer

  Abdication, Alsace, Arcis, Austria, Bar-sur-Seine, Brienne, Colmar, Cossacks, Cuirassier, Daily life, Dragoons, Emperor, Essoyes, Fontainebleau, Looting, Marne, Montereau, Napoleon, Paris, Pillage, Polish Lancers, Prussia, Russia, Saint-Aubin, Saint-Dizier, Seine, Strasbourg, Troyes, Vitry, Westphalia

• The 1814 journal of a squadron commander – horse artillery (II) …

  

  The second part of Squadron Commander Hubert Mathieu’s (horse artillery) journal set during the 1814 campaign for France … … On the 18th, at 9 o’clock, Bac was evacuated and the infantry of the corps proceeded towards Roussi. The various (out)posts which were relieved were to form the rearguard along with the horse artillery and…

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  February 9, 2023

  1814 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Imperial Guard, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer

  Abdication, Auxonne, Batteries, Besançon, Bivouac, Champaubert, Château-Thierry, Colonel, Cuirassier, Daily life, Douay, Duke of Ragusa, Emperor, Essonne, Fismes, Fontainebleau, General Bordessoulle, General Hubert, General Souham, Gunner, Howitzer, Journal, La Ferté-Gaucher, Marshal Marmont, Melun, Napoleon, Oise, Rheims, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Sézane, Versailles, Vertus