Tag: General Bonnet

• Louis Jacques Romand and the turmoil of 1813 … (II)

  

  On the 30th, General Vandamme, commanding I Corps, entered the defiles of the Bohemian mountains, where he was soundly beaten by the [Allied] combined army. He lost most of his men and he himself was captured by the enemy. Our baggage having, ill-advisedly, followed that of this corps and finding itself on the road was…

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  May 9, 2024

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

  Abdication, Administration, Ambulance, Ambush, Ammunition, Austria, Battle of Dresden, Battle of Kulm, Belfort, Billet, Bivouac, Bohemia, Bread, Cadre, Capitulation, Company, Count, Daily life, Depot, Dresden, Emperor, Equipment, Family, Fatigue, First Restauration, Foodstuffs, Fortifications, Garrison, General Bonnet, General Vandamme, Grenadiers, Hospital, Host, Hungary, Hunger, Illness, Imprisonment, King Louis XVIII, Langres, Leipzig, Line infantry, Marshal St Cyr, Metz, Minister of War, Napoleon, Paris, Pirna, Prisoner of war, Russia, Skirmishers, Starvation, Strasbourg, Supplies, Toplitz, Treason, Vermin, Vienna

• Louis Jacques Romand and the turmoil of 1813 … (I)

  

  The protagonist of these recollections is Louis Jacques Romand. He was born in Vauconcourt, part of the arrondissement of Gray, Haute-Saône Department, on 12 October 1790. He saw action in the campaign in Austria of 1809 as a fusilier chasseur of the Guard (1st Regiment). Romand then was assigned to a expeditionary battalion and travelled…

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  May 4, 2024

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

  Accomodation, Administration, Aide-de-camp, Ammunition, Austria, Bamberg, Barracks, Battalion, Battle of Dresden, Bavaria, Billet, Bivouac, Bohemia, Brest, Brittany, Champs-Elysées, Cold, Courage, Daily life, Dresden, Dutch, Emperor, Emperor Francis of Austria, Equipment, Expedition, Family, Fencing, Fire, Flag, Franconia, Frankfurt, Freyberg, Fusiliers, Geishubel, General Bonnet, Germany, Governor, Haute-Saône, Hunger, Illness, Imperial Guard, Injuries, Inspection, Invalides, Line infantry, Mainz, Marshal Augereau, Marshal Kellerman, Marshal Sérurier, Marshal St Cyr, Mauritius, Metz, Minister of War, Napoleon, Navy, NCO, Paris, Peace, Pirna, Prisoner of war, Prussia, Quartermaster, Rain, Rhine, Russia, Russian Imperial Guard, Saint-Cloud, Saint-Denis, Saxony, Sergeant, Sergeant-major, Seychelles, Shako, Sojourn, Supplies, Training, Truce, Vauconcourt, Versailles, Vertus, Village, Würzburg

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Correspondence of grognard Jean-Henry Rattier (III) …

  

  Puente la Reina, 13 November 1810. The regiments of our division are gathering at this moment to move from Navarre to Castile. Our (supply) wagons leave at noon for Pamplona, in order to follow the main road to Vitoria, as well as the artillery. The troops will travel via the secondary roads; the main roads…

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  December 5, 2023

  Anecdotes, Artillery, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer, Peninsular War, Police – Gendarmerie

  Accomodation, Adjudant Major, Asturias, Bayonne, Benavente, Billet, Bread, Brigands, Cadre, Castile, Chasseur, Chief of Staff, Ciudad Rodrigo, Convoy, Daily life, Equipment, Escort, Fatigue, Fodder, Foodstuffs, Formation, France, Garrison, General Bonnet, General Dorsenne, General Rampon, Grants, Homesick, Illness, Imperial Guard, Imprisonment, Insubordination, Insurgency, Leon, Lieutenant Colonel, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Bessières, Money, Mounts, Navarre, NCO, Old Guard, Pamplona, Peninsular War, Pillage, Portugal, Promotion, Puente la Reina, Rape, Reforms, Salamanca, Service, Soria, Spain, Supplies, Theft, Toro, Valladolid, Vitoria, Voltigeurs, Zamora