Tag: General Wittgenstein

• 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

• Doctor Wilhelm Meier and Baden’s war efforts during the Russian campaign …

  

  This excerpt represents one complete chapter of Meier’s recollections. Relations between France and the rest of Europe, with Russia in particular – Causes and preparations for war Through the Peace of Vienna of 1809 and its consequences, the family bond established with the Imperial House of Austria, Napoleon had reached the summit of his fortune…

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  July 20, 2023

  1812 Campaign, French-Allied forces, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs

  1812, Accomodation, Army of Moldavia, Austria, Baden, Battle of Smolensk, Battle of the Berezina, Bivouac, Borodino, Burning of Moscow, Confederation of the Rhine, Continental System, Cossacks, Courland, Daily life, Danzig, Diplomacy, Doctor, Drissa, Duna, Dysentery, Elbing, Emperor, Fatigue, Frankfurt, Gdansk, General Chichagov, General Wintzingerode, General Wittgenstein, Germany, Hospital, Illness, Imprisonment, Jews, Königsberg, Kovno, Kremlin, Lancers, Looting, Mainz, Marienburg, Marshal Bernadotte, Marshal Murat, Marshal Victor, Moscow, Mozhaysk, Napoleon, Negotiations, Niemen, Occupation, Oder, Officer, Orsha, Ostrovno, Ottoman Empire, Paris, Pillage, Podolia, Poland, Pommerania, Prisoner of war, Prussia, Rearguard, Russia, Schwarzenberg, Scorched earth, Smolensk, St Petersburg, Stettin, Stralsund, Supplies, Sweden, Tilsit, Tsar Alexander, Vermin, Vienna, Vilna, Vistula, Vitebsk, Warsaw

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

  

  A letter from Baptiste Massicoir to his father: From Rostenbourg, (this) 20 August 1812. My dear father, This letter is to inform me of the state of your health and that of my brother and sisters. I am doing well. I hope with all my heart that this letter finds you all well. My dear…

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  July 16, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer, Soldier

  1812, Antwerp, Berlin, Bivouac, Bread, Bridge, Cossacks, Daily life, Detachment, Dunaburg, Dvina, Emperor, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, General Wittgenstein, Grants, Hunger, Imprisonment, Königsberg, Latvia, Light Infantry, Living off the land, Looting, Lorient, Mainz, Marshal Oudinot, Marshal Victor, Money, Moral, Moscow, Napoleon, Niemen, Peasants, Pillage, Poland, Polotsk, Prisoner of war, Promotion, Rearguard, River, Russia, Scorched earth, Second Lieutenant, Sergeant, St Petersburg, Supplies, Warsaw, Westphalia

• A war commissioner’s account on the battle of the Berezina …

  

  Alexandre Bellot de Kergorre (1784-1840) recounts the events that took place at the banks of the Berezina … … The Army of Moldavia had such a great influence on the events of the 1812 campaign that its actions deserve to be recounted. At the beginning of 1812, Russia was still at war with Turkey and…

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  March 23, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Engineers, French-Allied forces, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer, Soldier

  1812, Army of Moldavia, Army of Volhynia, Austria, Battle of the Berezina, Bivouac, Bobr, Borisov, Cossacks, Daily life, Duchy of Warsaw, Dvina, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, General Chichagov, General Loison, General Reynier, General Sacken, General Wittgenstein, Hunger, Kutuzov, Light Infantry, Marshal Oudinot, Marshal St Cyr, Marshal Victor, Minsk, Poland, Retreat, Russia, Schwarzenberg, Smolensk, Supplies, Vanguard, Vitebsk, Voltigeurs

• 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

• A letter of General Partouneaux to Marshal Berthier …

  

  We are familiar with how General Partouneaux, who had departed from Borisov, suddenly found himself cut off from Studienka. He had only 3,400 men left, yet he resolutely attacked the enemy. His efforts were frustrated by the superiority of the enemy forces and he was forced to surrender. Napoleon, in his 29th Bulletin, reported that…

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  November 10, 2022

  1812 Campaign, Battle, General staff, Generals, Marshals, Reports

  1812, Battle of the Berezina, Borisov, Bulletin, Colonel, General Chichagov, General Partouneaux, General Platov, General Wittgenstein, Marshal Berthier, Retreat, Russia, St Petersburg