Tag: General Roguet

• 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 Military Life of Bruno d’Ast … (II)

  

  Moscow, 20 September 1812. My dear father, you must have received my letter from Smolensk by now. I hope that it finds you in as good health as I am at the moment, despite the fatigue and hardship we had to endure before arriving in this city. I spoke to you in my last letter…

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  April 3, 2024

  1812 Campaign, 1813 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer, Soldier

  1812, Aachen, Accomodation, Aide-de-camp, Aix la-Chapelle, Appointment, Battle of Bautzen, Battle of Borodino, Battle of Lützen, Billet, Bivouac, Borodino, Breslau, Burning of Moscow, Captain, Captivity, Cold, Conscription, Daily life, Emperor, Family, Fatigue, General Lanusse, General Ricard, General Roguet, Grenade, Haute-Garonne, Imperial Guard, Königsberg, Legion of Honour, Leipzig, Liegnitz, Line infantry, Lintz, Loan, Mainz, Major, Marriage, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Ney, Marshal Pérignon, Money, Moscow, Moskva, Mounts, Mozhaysk, Naples, Napoleon, Neumark, Oder, Paris, Périgord, Périgueux, Pillage, Prisoner of war, Promotion, Prussia, Russia, Supplies, Tirailleurs, Toulouse, Vilna, Voltigeurs, Wine, Winter

• Colonel Raymond Guiraud’s war journal (VI) …

  

  … My injury prevented me from taking part in the German campaign. The Emperor left Paris on 15 April 1813 to put himself at the head of the new army that his genius had reorganised. You had to behold him the preceding days in the courtyard of the Tuileries, at the daily parades, having the…

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  July 13, 2023

  1813 Campaign, 1814 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Engineers, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer

  Antwerp, Austria, Battle of Bautzen, Battle of Lützen, Battle of Paris, Battle of the Katzbach, Belgium, Bohemia, Bourbons, Clichy, Clothing, Confederation of the Rhine, Conscription, Daily life, Dennewitz, Empress Marie-Louise, First Restauration, General Carra Saint-Cyr, General Kirgener, General Maison, General Roguet, General Vandamme, Inspection, Kortrijk, Levée en masse, Lille, Marshal Macdonald, Marshal Moncey, Marshal Ney, Notre-Dame, Parades, Paris, Peasants, Place du Carrousel, Prussia, Saint-Cloud, Saxony, Transport, Tuileries, Valenciennes

• An excerpt of a Dutch officer’s journal from the year 1811 …

  

  Introduction by J. W. des Tombe The author of the following journal is Andreas Jan Jacob des Tombe, son of Lieutenant-Colonel of Carabiniers of His Highness the Prince of Orange, Arnoldus des Tombe, and Henriette Anna de Bons, daughter of the well-known Major-General Andreas de Bons, the heroic, grey haired defender of the fortress of…

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  January 3, 2023

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

  Andalusia, Battle of Medellin, Bivouac, Brigands, Burgos, Daily life, Duke of Wellington, Dutch, El Pastor, General Caffarelli, General Chassé, General Leval, General Roguet, German Division, Grenadiers, Guerilla, Hospital, Injuries, Insurgency, Irun, Journal, Kingdom of Holland, Lieutenant, Looting, Marshal Bessières, Marshal Soult, Marshal Victor, Old Guard, Peasants, Pillage, Prince of Orange, Regiment of Tirailleurs, Siege of Saragossa, Spain, Villafranca, Villareal, Vitoria

• The 32nd Regiment in Spain, 1809 …

  

  Part four of Maignal’s recollections while serving in Spain … … After the inspection, we returned to our quarters, and I was able to study the physiognomy of the regiment, or at least of my battalion and my company. My captain had said to me: ‘When one is about to embark on a campaign, it…

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  September 20, 2022

  Battle, Infantry, Memoirs, Officer, Peninsular War, Soldier

  Almonacid, Bivouac, Conscript, Conscription, Corporal, Daily life, General Roguet, General Sébastiani, Hospital, La Mancha, Major, Spain, Vitoria