Tag: General Ségur

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

  

  … Clouds were gathering on the horizon, and there was no doubt that it would soon be necessary to return to the battlefield. An army commanded by Junot had set out for Portugal at the end of 1807. Under the pretext of supporting this expedition, Generals Dupont, Duhesme and Moncey had also crossed the borders…

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  June 21, 2023

  Aide-de-camp, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Engineers, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer, Peninsular War

  Andalusia, Aranjuez, Army of Portugal, Austria, Barcelona, Battle of Bailén, Battle of Medina del Rio-Seco, Bayonne, Benavente, Biscay, Bourbons, Burgos, Catalonia, Clergy, Colonel, Daily life, Ebro, Emperor, France, Galicia (Spain), General Duhesme, General Dupont, General Frère, General Junot, General Legendre, General Monthion, General Ségur, Godoy, Headquarters, Jaén, Joseph Bonaparte, King Charles IV of Spain, Madrid, Mamelukes, Marshal Bessières, Marshal Moncey, Marshal Murat, Militia, Napoleon, Navarre, Pamplona, Paris, Polish Lancers, San Sebastian, Somosierra, Spain, Valladolid

• Details on the supply system of the Grande Armée in Russia …

  

  In March 1830, Georges Cuvier (member of the Institut de France, scientist, …) approached Philippe de Ségur for details on the administration of the French army during the Russian campaign and in particular on the operations relating to food supplies. Ségur consulted Mathieu Dumas, Intendant General of the French army in 1812, and Dumas sent…

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  September 7, 2022

  1812 Campaign, General staff, Generals, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy

  1812, Count Daru, Daily life, Fodder, Foodstuffs, General Dumas, General Ségur, Gumbinnen, Hugues-Bernard Maret, Königsberg, Kovno, Marshal Victor, Niemen, Orsha, Resources, Retreat, Russia, Vilna