Tag: General Legrand

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 This account, which is an extract from Jomini’s unpublished memoirs, is not entirely in accordance with some others, for example that of Thiers.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

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• Some correspondence related to the campaign in Austria, 1809 …

  

  Lieutenant Augustin Le Pelletier de Voillemont, born on 27 March 1785 in Paris, who served in the 19th Infantry Regiment (composed of three battalions) led by Colonel Aubry (part of General Dupas’ Division, with Bernadotte as commander of IX Corps), wrote the following missives, full of details on the engagements he was involved in, as…

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  November 23, 2023

  1809 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer

  Accomodation, Aisne, Austria, Baggage, Baron, Battalion Commander, Battle of Aspern-Essling, Battle of Wagram, Billet, Bivouac, Captain, Certificate, Clothing, Company, Conscript, Count Daru, Daily life, Depot, Emperor, Equipment, Foot Artillery, Fusiliers, General Boulart, General Drouot, General Lariboisière, General Legrand, Horse Artillery, Injuries, Inspection, Krems, La Fère, Landwehr, Legion of Honour, Lieutenant, Marshal Bernadotte, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Masséna, Mühldorf, Money, Napoleon, Paris, Pay, Promotion, Rouen, Second Lieutenant, Skirmishers, Strasbourg, Supplies, Ulm, Vienna, Voltigeurs, Znaïm

• Reports on the battles of Neumarkt and Ebelsberg, 1809 …

  

  On 24 (April), the Marshal Duke of Istria (Bessières) occupied Neumarkt with the Bavarian Division of General de Wrede and two brigades of light cavalry. The village of Neumarkt is located at the bottom of a defile which is intersected by the small Rott river and surrounded by woods which dominate it on all sides.…

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  April 18, 2023

  1809 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, French-Allied forces, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Marshals, Officer, Reports

  Austria, Baden, Battle of Ebelsberg, Battle of Neumarkt, Bavaria, Bivouac, Chasseur, Confederation of the Rhine, Decorations, Dragoons, General Claparède, General Coëhorn, General Hiller, General Ledru, General Legrand, General Marulaz, General Molitor, General Wrede, Legion of Honour, Light Horse, Lintz, Marshal Bessières, Marshal Masséna, Traun, Württemberg