Tag: General Nansouty

• Dedicated to the Imperial Cause – Letters of the Dandalle Family (V) …

  

  In September 1811, Alphonse, now definitively released from his clothing employment, sent a detachment by boat from Huningue to Wesel to join the regiment. He travelled to Hamburg, made contact with Hubert and returned to the Huningue depot, bidding it farewell on 20 April 1812 when he left for Cologne with another detachment. It is…

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  March 13, 2024

  1812 Campaign, Anecdotes, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer, Soldier

  1812, Austria, Barclay de Tolly, Battle of Borodino, Battle of Maloyaroslavets, Battle of Smolensk, Battle of the Berezina, Berlin, Bivouac, Borodino, Borovsk, Brandy, Bulletin, Burning of Moscow, Captain, Cold, Cologne, Cossacks, Croatia, Cuirassier, Daily life, Danzig, Depot, Dnieper, Dvina, Foodstuffs, France, General Moreau, General Nansouty, Germany, Grants, Hamburg, Hanover, Huningue, Italy, Kaluga, Königsberg, Kovno, Kremlin, Legion of Honour, Light Infantry, Lithuania, Magdeburg, Marshal Bernadotte, Marshal Mortier, Marshal Victor, Minsk, Money, Moscow, Moskva, Napoleon, Niemen, Poland, Polotsk, Prince Bagration, Prisoner of war, River, Russia, Studienka, Supplies, Sweden, Swiss, Tilsit, Tsar Alexander, Vanguard, Vilna, Vitebsk, Voltigeurs, Vyazma, Water, Wesel

• Letters of a battalion commander, Russia 1812 …

  

  The military operations of 1812 commenced in June. On the 15th, the 33rd Infantry Regiment numbered 4,252 men divided into five battalions. This is the unit of our officer, whose letters we reproduce. On the 18th, Napoleon, who was at Gumbinnen (Prussia), inspected the 33rd Regiment, part of the 2nd Division (led by General Friant)…

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  November 18, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Battle, Generals, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Medicine – Surgery, Officer

  1812, Accomodation, Ambulance, Battalion Commander, Battle of Borodino, Battle of Smolensk, Berlin, Bivouac, Certificate, Cold, Daily life, Danzig, Dysentery, Elbing, Emperor, Family, General Friant, General Nansouty, Gumbinnen, Gzhatsk, Illness, Injuries, Inspection, Königsberg, Legion of Honour, Line infantry, Mainz, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Davout, Minsk, Money, Moscow, Moskva, Mozhaysk, Napoleon, Oder, Promotion, Redoubts, Retreat, Russia, Smolensk, Stettin, Surgeon, Vilna, Wine

• To Austerlitz – A French officer’s 1805 journal … (I)

  

  Here we have the 1805 journal entries of Louis Florimond Fantin des Odoards (1778-1866), an officer who primarily served in the 31st Light Infantry Regiment. We follow him in the wake of General (future marshal) Oudinot’s Grenadier Division … Rastatt, 6 Vendémiaire year XIV (28 September 1805). It is done. The magnificent army which formerly…

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  April 19, 2023

  1805 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Infantry, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer

  Archduke Ferdinand, Austria, Baden, Bavaria, Bivouac, Capitulation, Daily life, Danube, Dragoons, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, Göttingen, General Junot, General Mack, General Nansouty, Germany, Grenadiers, Hunger, Jungingen, Marshal Oudinot, Mühlhausen, Mud, Pillage, Rhine, Strasbourg, Supplies, Ulm, Württemberg

• General Lasalle’s 1809 correspondence (II) …

  

  Lasalle’s standing with General Marulaz was delicate. Marulaz was his senior: he had been appointed colonel long before him. The same decree had named them both generals of brigade on 1 February 1805. At Essling, General Marulaz had displayed the greatest bravery: he had had two horses killed under him and, in sabering two Austrians,…

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  February 27, 2023

  1809 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Reports

  Austria, Bivouac, Chasseur à Cheval, Daily life, Danube, Engerau, Foodstuffs, General Bruyère, General Marulaz, General Montbrun, General Nansouty, Hainburg, Hungary, Hussars, Intelligence, Light Infantry, Marshal Bessières, Marshal Davout, Pressburg, Reconnaissance

• General Dautancourt’s battle accounts, 1814 …

  

  General Dautancourt’s experiences set during three battles of the 1814 campaign. Note that he writes in third person. Montereau, 18 February 1814. With General Lion, commanding the four service squadrons close the Emperor, having been slightly wounded on February 14 at Vauchamp, General Dautancourt was summoned to command these squadrons on the morning of the…

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  June 21, 2022

  1814 Campaign, Battle, Cavalry, French-Allied forces, Generals, Imperial Guard, Memoirs, Reports

  Craonne, General Nansouty, Imperial Guard, Montereau, Polish Lancers