Tag: General Le Blond de Saint-Hilaire

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

  

  It was at ten o’clock when Davout’s left began to move towards Serpallen, from where Morand’s Division drove back Bennigsen’s vanguard commanded by General Bagavout [Baggovut], who had replaced Barclay de Tolly. However, this was only the prelude to his objective; the priority was to seize the key position of Sausgarten and the heights that…

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  May 20, 2024

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

  Accomodation, Baggovut, Barclay de Tolly, Battalion, Batteries, Battle of Eylau, Carnage, Daily life, Emperor, Eylau, General Bennigsen, General Jomini, General Le Blond de Saint-Hilaire, General Legrand, General Lestocq, General Morand, Guns, Imperial Guard, Königsberg, L’Estocq, Manoeuvres, Marshal Augereau, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Davout, Marshal Grouchy, Marshal Murat, Marshal Ney, Marshal Oudinot, Marshal Soult, Napoleon, Prussia, Russia, Snow, Square, Stalemate, Strategy, Tactics, Vanguard, Willenberg

• 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 This account, which is an extract from Jomini’s unpublished memoirs, is not entirely in accordance with some others, for example that of Thiers.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

• 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

• An anecdote prior to the battle of Eylau …

  

  One evening, shortly before the battle of Eylau, Commander Jean-Stanislas Vivien (1777-1850), of the 55th Line Regiment, and his soldiers were visited by an anonymous guest. This episode is recounted in the excellent testimony he wrote … The night at bivouac from 5 to 6 February 1807 – Many people are familiar with the fact…

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  February 21, 2023

  1807 Campaign, Anecdotes, Battle, Infantry, Memoirs, Officer

  Battle of Eylau, Bivouac, Foodstuffs, General Le Blond de Saint-Hilaire, Grenadiers, Lieutenant, Russia

• Spying on the Prussian army, 1809 …

  

  Stettin, 22 January 1809. Monsieur le Maréchal (Davout), According to the latest reports from an associate whom I sent to Starqard, and who has managed to make contact with someone who is very close to General Blücher, it is a fact that Prussia is recruiting troops, and that it is not former soldiers who are…

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  December 5, 2022

  1809 Campaign, General staff, Generals, Letters – Correspondence, Reports

  Blücher, Espionage, General Le Blond de Saint-Hilaire, King Frederick William III of Prussia, Levy, Marshal Davout, Pomerania, Prussia, Recruitment, Silesia, Stettin