Tag: General Marchand

• The experiences of Dragoon Auguste de Maupas in Spain and Portugal, 1808-1812 (I)

  

  Born on 5 September 1786 in Laon, Aisne, into a noble family originally from Berry, Auguste-Marie was the son of Jérôme Clément Agard, the Marquis of Maupas, and Marie-Madeleine de La Fons d’Happencourt. He married Geneviève-Stéphanie-Félicité-Cécile de Martiny on 2 January 1821. Maupas entered the École Militaire of Fontainebleau on 17 February 1805, and was…

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  May 2, 2024

  Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer, Peninsular War, Soldier

  Aide-de-camp, Aisne, Ambush, Ammunition, Astorga, Asturias, Avignon, Ballesteros, Bayonne, Benavente, Bordeaux, Brigands, Burgos, Castile, Colonel, Daily life, Discipline, Dragoons, Dresden, Duke of Angoulême, Equipment, Execution, Exile, Fontainebleau, France, Garrison, General Bonnet, General Ferrey, General Kellerman, General Marchand, General Thomières, Germany, Guns, Hesdin, Inspection, Insubordination, Insurgency, King Louis XVIII, La Romana, Labagneza, Laon, Leipzig, Leon, Line infantry, Mainz, Mancilla, Marquesito, Marshal Brune, Marshal Masséna, Marshal Ney, Marshal Suchet, Mayorga, Military School, Mounts, Murder, Napoleon, Oviedo, Palencia, Poland, Portugal, Prisoner of war, Review, Rhine, Saint-Dizier, Salamanca, Santander, Scotland, Second Lieutenant, Spain, St-Jean-de-Luz, Toro, Valencia, Valladolid, Villapando, Vitoria, Zamora

• 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 battle of Fuentes de Oñoro, recounted by a staff officer …

  

  Here follows an excerpt from Emmanuel-Frédéric Sprünglin’s (1773-1844) exceptional memoirs, which he wrote based on his detailed journal he kept during his service in the Peninsular War. On 3 October 1810, our Swiss-born officer was appointed deputy (adjoint) battalion commander in the general staff of the Army of Portugal. When the decision was made for…

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  February 28, 2024

  Aide-de-camp, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer, Peninsular War

  Agueda, Alameda, Almeida, Army of Portugal, Azava, Battalion Commander, Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro, Cantonments, Carpio, Castelo Bom, Castile, Ciudad Rodrigo, Coa, Duke of Wellington, Entrenchments, Equipment, Espeja, Fatigue, Fortifications, Gallegos, General Brenier, General Drouet d'Erlon, General Ferrey, General Heudelet, General Loison, General Marchand, General Maucune, General Montbrun, General Reynier, Horse Artillery, Leon, Light Artillery, Light Infantry, Marialva, Marshal Bessières, Marshal Masséna, Marshal Ney, Peninsular War, Portugal, Pozobello, Rearguard, Retreat, River, Skirmishers, Spain, Vanguard, Vilar Formoso, Voltigeurs

• Eyewitness accounts of the campaign in Russia, 1812 (V) …

  

  General Georg von Scheler (1770-1826, from Württemberg) wrote the following: Moscow, 8 and 9 October 1812. Everyone found shelter, albeit packed and cramped, in the suburb on the road to Kazan. The horses of the artillery, the two regiments of chevau-légers and the regiment of the King’s Chasseurs No. 4 were accommodated in stables or…

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  September 12, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, French-Allied forces, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer, Reports, Soldier

  1812, Accomodation, Austria, Bivouac, Borodino, Brandy, Bug, Burning of Moscow, Chasseur à Cheval, Clothing, Conscript, Conscription, Cossacks, Daily life, Danzig, Draft evasion, Duchy of Warsaw, Duke of Bassano, Emperor, Foodstuffs, Galicia (Poland), General Chichagov, General Durutte, General Dutaillis, General Marchand, General Reynier, Germany, Grants, Grodno, Homesick, Hospital, Hugues-Bernard Maret, Illness, Kazan, Königsberg, Kiev, Kovno, Light Cavalry, Light Horse, Marshal Augereau, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Murat, Marshal Ney, Marshal St Cyr, Marshal Victor, Minister of War, Minsk, Money, Moral, Moscow, Napoleon, Orsha, Outpost, Peasants, Pinsk, Poland, Polotsk, Posen, Pultusk, Punishment, Rearguard, Recruitment, Retreat, River, Russia, Saxony, Schwarzenberg, Smolensk, Supplies, Ukraine, Vanguard, Vilna, Volhynia, Walcheren, Warsaw, Württemberg, Würzburg

• 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

• General Auguste Colbert and his cavalry brigade in Spain, 1808

  

  Here are three letters copied after the originals, which are from the hand of the talented light cavalry general Auguste Colbert (1777-1809) in Spain … TO MR. GENERAL MARCHAND, INTERIM COMMANDER OF THE 6th ARMY CORPS. Pamplona, 5 November 1808. Yesterday in the course of the day, my dear General, I received your letter dated…

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  June 1, 2023

  Cavalry, Generals, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer, Peninsular War, Reports

  Accomodation, Bayonne, Bivouac, Cantonments, Chasseur à Cheval, Daily life, Foodstuffs, General Auguste Colbert, General Marchand, Hussars, Light Cavalry, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Ney, Pamplona, Supplies

• An officer’s recollections on Mohrungen and Eylau, 1807 …

  

  Jean-Baptiste Giraud (1772-1813) was an officer who fought alongside the 69th Regiment. He wrote dozens of letters throughout the Napoleonic Wars. Here we have an example for the war against Russia and Prussia in 1806 and 1807 … Ottestein, 2 March 1807. We crossed the Oder on 1 December and are now in Poland. What…

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  May 25, 2023

  1807 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Officer

  Battle of Eylau, Battle of Mohrungen, Bivouac, Captain, Clothing, Daily life, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, General Lestocq, General Marchand, General Pernetty, Königsberg, Legion of Honour, Magdeburg, Oder, Ottestein, Peasants, Poland, Prussia, Russia, Supplies, Vistula

• The plight of the Frankfurt Regiment, Russia 1812 …

  

  The remnants of the division of the Prince gathered at Königsberg. The 6th Regiment of the Rhine, which had not fought, was already there with 300 men. Marshal Murat reviewed the division on 28 December (1812), numbering 2,000 men. On 1 November it had boasted 14,000 soldiers! Of all the regiments, that of Frankfurt had…

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  December 20, 2022

  1812 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, French-Allied forces, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer, Reports

  1812, Bivouac, Captain, Confederation of the Rhine, Cossacks, Daily life, Danzig, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, Frankfurt, General Marchand, General Wittgenstein, General Yorck, Germany, Hospital, Illness, Königsberg, Lieutenant, Money, Prussia, Retreat, Russia, Supplies, Vilna

• An aide-de-camp’s experiences of the battle at Guttstadt, 1807 …

  

  … I moved off at once; but hardly had I passed Guttstadt, when I found Cossacks on the right and left of the road and the whole artillery train of VI Corps turning back. I wanted to cross the ploughed land to proceed to the camp of the 69th (Regiment) and from there to Scharnich,…

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  September 1, 2022

  1807 Campaign, Battle, General staff, Generals, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer

  Battle of Guttstadt, Cossacks, General Compans, General Marchand, Marshal Ney, Marshal Soult, Russia