Tag: General Dumas

• An interpreter’s journey during the Russian campaign …

  

  Here we find a set of letters written by Gabriel Le Coigneux de Belâbre, an interpreter on Napoleon’s cabinet, on a day to day basis throughout the Russian campaign of 1812, meant for his cousin, René de Thomé : ‘To Monsieur René de Thomé, rue des Francs-Bourgeois n° 16, at Marais in Paris’. We present some…

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  January 28, 2023

  1812 Campaign, General staff, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy

  1812, Administration, Battle of Smolensk, Bivouac, Borysthenes, Cabinet, Count Daru, Daily life, Eugène de Beauharnais, Foodstuffs, General Dumas, General Durosnel, Gumbinnen, Illness, Intelligence, Interpreter, Italy, Moscow, Posen, Retreat, Russia, Secretary of State, Supplies, Thorn, Transport, Vilna, Vitebsk

• Details on the supply system of the Grande Armée in Russia …

  

  In March 1830, Georges Cuvier (member of the Institut de France, scientist, …) approached Philippe de Ségur for details on the administration of the French army during the Russian campaign and in particular on the operations relating to food supplies. Ségur consulted Mathieu Dumas, Intendant General of the French army in 1812, and Dumas sent…

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  September 7, 2022

  1812 Campaign, General staff, Generals, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy

  1812, Count Daru, Daily life, Fodder, Foodstuffs, General Dumas, General Ségur, Gumbinnen, Hugues-Bernard Maret, Königsberg, Kovno, Marshal Victor, Niemen, Orsha, Resources, Retreat, Russia, Vilna