Tag: General Compans
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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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On the battle of Möckern (1813), witnessed by an officer …
Narcisse Faucheur, a nineteen-year-old officer in the 26th Infantry Regiment, recounts his experiences fighting at the northern sector of the Leipzig battlefield … … As I do not have any intention nor the possibility of providing you with a strategic account of the great battle which was being prepared, I will limit myself to recount…
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An aide-de-camp’s experiences of the battle at Guttstadt, 1807 …
… I moved off at once; but hardly had I passed Guttstadt, when I found Cossacks on the right and left of the road and the whole artillery train of VI Corps turning back. I wanted to cross the ploughed land to proceed to the camp of the 69th (Regiment) and from there to Scharnich,…
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An account on the battle of Borodino …
Jean Gazo, the memorialist of the following excerpt, was the head of the equipment park of the Grand Quartier Général (of the Grande Armée). His recollections on the Russian campaign include these paragraphs … The following day, the battle of the Moskva (French name for Borodino) unfolded. Irritated by the capture of Smolensk and the…