Tag: General d'Hautpoul

• Napoleon and the battle of Eylau, as recounted by General Jomini … (I)

  

  Note by the article’s author, Xavier de Courville. This account, which is an extract from Jomini’s unpublished memoirs, is not entirely in accordance with some others, for example that of Thiers. I am transcribing this document as it stands, as it may be of use to history. – X. C. On debouching from the great…

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  May 14, 2024

  1807 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Allied (Coalition) forces, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer

  Barclay de Tolly, Battalion, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Friedland, Bivouac, Bulletin, Chasseur à Cheval de la Garde Impériale, Colberg, Column, Cuirassier, Daily life, Danzig, Daumesnil, Dokhturov, Dragoons, Emperor, Eylau, Fog, General Bruyère, General d'Hautpoul, General Desjardins, General Dorsenne, General Exelmans, General Heudelet, General Jomini, General Le Blond de Saint-Hilaire, General Legrand, General Lestocq, General Leval, General Sacken, Graudenz, Grenadiers, Imperial Guard, Königsberg, Light Infantry, Line infantry, Marshal Augereau, Marshal Davout, Marshal Grouchy, Marshal Lefebvre, Marshal Murat, Marshal Ney, Marshal Soult, Marshal Victor, Moral, Mounts, Napoleon, Orderly, Orders, Poland, Pomerania, Posen, Prussia, Russia, Serpallen, Skirmishers, Snow, Squadron Commander, Square, Sweden, Topprinen, Voltigeurs, Woods, Zeal

• 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

• A dragoon under Marshal Murat – Letters of the 1806-1807 Campaigns (II)

  

  Poland was a completely different country for the French soldiers. The miserable and often desolate appearance of certain areas surprised them by the contrast with the bountiful regions where they had long resided. However, they were cheerful and confident, and the change of regime gave them more cause for jest than complaint. Moreover, the cordial…

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  January 22, 2024

  1806 Campaign, 1807 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Engineers, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer

  Accomodation, Allenstein, Billet, Bivouac, Chasseur à Cheval de la Garde Impériale, Cossacks, Craconville, Custrin, Daily life, Deppen, Dokhturov, Dragoons, Emperor, Eylau, Family, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, General Beaumont, General Bennigsen, General Corbineau, General d'Hautpoul, General Lasalle, Germany, Golitsyn, Health, Hoff, Königsberg, Liebstadt, Locals, Mainz, Marriage, Marshal Augereau, Marshal Davout, Marshal Lannes, Marshal Murat, Moral, Mud, Napoleon, Poland, Praga, Prussia, Pultusk, River, Russia, Snow, Supplies, Ukra, Vistula, Warsaw

• Cuirassier Jean de Gouttes’ correspondence on Ulm and Austerlitz …

  

  La Ferté-sous-Jouarre (Seine-et-Marne), 16 Fructidor Year XIII (3 September 1805). You will no doubt be surprised to receive a letter from me dated from La Ferté; I confess that I did not expect to be leaving it so soon, even though I knew that we were due to depart from Versailles shortly. Mr. Salvaing may…

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  August 24, 2023

  1805 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Austria, Baden, Battle of Austerlitz, Bavaria, Billet, Bridge, British, Camp of Boulogne, Chalons, Cisalpine Republic, Cuirassier, Danube, Depot, Desertion, Elchingen, Emperor, Emperor Francis of Austria, Equipment, Flag, General d'Hautpoul, General Mack, General Saint-Sulpice, Germany, Hungary, Illness, Imprisonment, Invasion, Italy, La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, Landau, Light Infantry, Marshal Murat, Marshal Ney, Marshal Soult, Memmingen, Metz, Money, Munich, Napoleon, Paris, Poverty, Prisoner of war, Rhine, Russia, Sarreguemines, Strasbourg, Ulm, Vanguard, Verdun, Vienna, Württemberg

• Some remarks of a cuirassier officer, 1806-1807 …

  

  Jean de Gouttes recounts his experiences of the Prussian and Polish surroundings and battlefields in his correspondence with his parents … Schwarzach, 17 August 1806. Although I cannot put much structure into the details I have provided about Bavaria, I will continue to give you some as they are of interest to you. The predominant…

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  August 10, 2023

  1806 Campaign, 1807 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Medicine – Surgery, Officer

  Accomodation, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Friedland, Battle of Guttstadt, Battle of Heilsberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Bivouac, Cuirassier, Daily life, Depot, Elbe, General d'Hautpoul, Germany, Grants, Injuries, Königsberg, Lübeck, Legion of Honour, Marshal Murat, Marshal Ney, Marshal Soult, Napoleon, Niemen, Oder, Poland, Prisoner of war, Prussia, Religion, Russia, Supplies, Thorn, Tilsit, Truce, Tsar Alexander, Vanguard

• Colonel Raymond Guiraud’s war journal (I) …

  

  Introduction Raymond Marc Antoine Guiraud, the author of the memoirs from which we are publishing extracts, was born at Limoux, a small town in Languedoc, on 20 January 1780. The Guiraud family were cloth merchants whose fortunes had improved at the same time as factories, which were flourishing in the region, had expanded their trade.…

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  June 13, 2023

  1807 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Engineers, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer

  Accomodation, Allenstein, Battle of Eylau, Bivouac, Bridge, Cantonments, Chasseur à Cheval de la Garde Impériale, Colonel, Cuirassier, Daily life, Emperor, General Bennigsen, General Caulaincourt (Master of Horse), General d'Hautpoul, General Le Blond de Saint-Hilaire, General Savary, Grenadiers à Cheval, Imperial Guard, Journal, Lübeck, Marshal Augereau, Marshal Bernadotte, Marshal Bessières, Marshal Davout, Marshal Lannes, Marshal Murat, Marshal Ney, Marshal Soult, Napoleon, Poland, Prussia, Russia, Thorn, Vistula, Warsaw