Tag: General Gérard

• 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

• The early stages of the Russian campaign, recounted by an officer …

  

  … On my arrival at Berlin, I received the order to proceed to Warsaw, carrying dispatches to Prince Jérôme; my instructions required me to follow the operations of this army corps until further notice. On the departure of King Jérôme, who was displeased to see himself placed under the command of Marshal Davout, I left…

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  June 28, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, French-Allied forces, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer

  1812, Appointment, Austria, Battle of Smolensk, Battle of Valutino, Berlin, Bivouac, Chasseur à Cheval, Chief of Staff, Colonel, Daily life, Duchy of Warsaw, Dvina, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, General Friant, General Gérard, General Grabowski, General Gudin, General Junot, General Latour-Maubourg, General Marchand, General Reynier, General Sébastiani, General Vandamme, Grenadiers, Headquarters, Heat, Imperial Guard, Injuries, Insubordination, Jérôme Bonaparte, Kovno, Krasny, Lancers, Legion of Honour, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Davout, Marshal Poniatowski, Mir, Mogilev, Mud, Niemen, Poland, Prince Bagration, Promotion, River, Russia, Saxony, Schwarzenberg, Scorched earth, Supplies, Vilna, Vitebsk, Voltigeurs, Westphalia

• Letters of Marshal Berthier from the 1814 Campaign …

  

  In the following four letters (dated 8 to 15 March 1814), Berthier seems to share the Emperor’s hopes and illusions; he reports the battle of Craonne which, Napoleon said, was glorious. He heralded the recapture of Soissons and Rheims; he even suggested that the enemy was troubled, threatened on all sides by the levée en…

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  May 4, 2023

  1814 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer, Reports

  Alsace, Austria, Bashkirs, Captivity, Chavignon, Châlons, Count de Langeron, Craonne, Epernay, General Corbineau, General Gérard, General Saint-Priest, General Yorck, Guards of Honour, Imprisonment, Insurgency, Kalmyks, L'Ange-Gardien, Laon, Levée en masse, Marshal Augereau, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Macdonald, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Mortier, Marshal Ney, Marshal Oudinot, National Guard, Prussia, Rheims, Russia, Soissons

• Letters from General Gérard concerning de La Bédoyère, 1814 …

  

  Two letters from General Gérard concerning Colonel de La Bédoyère. This letter is addressed to General Clarke, Duke of Feltre, Minister of War. Paris, January 22, 1814. My Lord, as the 2nd Division of the corps which I command does not comprise any generals of brigade yet, I therefore have the honor of proposing to…

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  June 27, 2022

  1814 Campaign, Battle, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Officer, Reports

  General Gérard, General La Bédoyère

• Declaration of Le Gouest, hussar officer & orderly of Marshal Grouchy

  

  Paris, 20 March 1841. Monsieur le maréchal, I hasten to respond to the request that you addressed for my recollections, and to send you the information and declarations that I am able to provide due to the functions of ordinance officer that I performed under your command in 1815. I am aware that the troops…

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  June 24, 2022

  1815 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Letters – Correspondence, Marshals, Officer

  Battle of Waterloo, Battle of Wavre, Gembloux, General Exelmans, General Gérard, General Vandamme, Marshal Grouchy, Namur, Prussia

• Officer Simon on Napoleon’s final campaigns …

  

  The author of this account, Charles-Luc-Louis-Marie Simon, was born in Blois on 18 October 1785. He became maréchal de camp after the July Revolution of 1830. Decorated on the battlefield of Talavera de la Reyna (Spain) in 1810 with the Knight’s Cross of the Legion of Honour, he had been made a Commander in that…

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  June 21, 2022

  1814 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Battle, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Memoirs, Officer

  General Gérard