Tag: Grand Marshal Duroc

• 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

• Some notes of a grenadier of the Imperial Guard, 1813 …

  

  A couple of passages of a journal kept by Philippe Ballut, a soldier serving in the 2nd Grenadier Regiment of the Guard, related to the early stages of the 1813 Campaign … Thursday, 29 April. – The Old Guard arrived at Naumburg before noon and we lit our fires at the foot of the tower,…

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  January 29, 2024

  1813 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Engineers, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Memoirs, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Alsace, Billet, Bivouac, Chasseur à Cheval de la Garde Impériale, Colonel, Conscript, Corporal, Cossacks, Daily life, Dresden, Emperor, Equipment, Erfurt, Espionage, Fatigue, General Berthezène, General Souham, Grand Marshal Duroc, Grenadiers, Hussars, Imperial Guard, Jena, Leipzig, Locals, Mamelukes, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Bessières, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Ney, Napoleon, Naumburg, Old Guard, Paris, Peace, Pillage, Prussia, Rain, Russia, Saale, Sappers, Saxony, Tsar Alexander, Weimar, Weissenfels, Young Guard

• Archduke Charles’ correspondence from the 1809 Campaign

  

  Ried, this 8th April 1809. My dearest uncle, I arrived here yesterday, though not without having suffered a lot from the cold. Everything here is covered with snow. I leave this afternoon for Altheim. I will be in Braunau tomorrow evening, and the day after tomorrow before daylight I will cross my Rubicon, if, as…

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  January 17, 2024

  1809 Campaign, Allied (Coalition) forces, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, French-Allied forces, General staff, Generals, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals

  Aderklaa, Altenburg, Archduke Charles, Armistice, Austria, Battle of Aspern-Essling, Battle of Ebelsberg, Battle of Eckmühl, Battle of Wagram, Battle of Znaim, Bellegarde, Bohemia, Brünn (Brno), Bridge, Budweis, Comorn, Croatia, Danube, Depot, Emperor, Engerau, Entrenchments, Eugène de Beauharnais, Family, Galicia (Poland), General Hiller, General Junot, General Molitor, General Montbrun, General Pajol, General Stutterheim, General Vandamme, Germany, Grand Marshal Duroc, Gross-Enzersdorf, Gyulai, Hungary, Illness, Kollowrat, Landshut, Landwehr, Lüneburg, Liechtenstein, Linz, Lobau, Markgrafneusiedl, Marshal Bernadotte, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Davout, Marshal Kellerman, Marshal Macdonald, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Masséna, Marshal Ney, Metternich, Moravia, Napoleon, Neumark, Olmütz, Poland, Pontoon, Prague, Pressburg, Raab, Radetzky, Regensburg, Ried, River, Russbach, Salzburg, Saxony, Schöngrabern, Silesia, Stadion, Teschen, Tsar Alexander, Tyrol, Vienna, Wallachia, Znaïm

• Correspondence between Caulaincourt and Talleyrand (IV) …

  

  The marriage of Edmond de Périgord Talleyrand, finally appointed by the Emperor to accompany him, arrived at Erfurt on 24 September. Caulaincourt was already there. It is not the occasion here to explain again the strange conduct of the Prince of Benevento during these very important days. The history is well established on this point.…

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  October 2, 2023

  Aide-de-camp, Anecdotes, Diplomacy, General staff, Generals, Letters – Correspondence, Officer, Reports

  Baden, Bayonne, Berlin, British, Canning, Corps législatif, Courland, Czartoryski, De Canisy, Diplomacy, Duchess of Dino, Embassy, Erfurt, Eugène de Beauharnais, Fontanes, General Caulaincourt (Master of Horse), Germany, Grand Marshal Duroc, Intrigue, Löbichau, Madrid, Marriage, Minister of Foreign Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Napoleon, Negotiations, Nompère de Champagny, Peninsular War, Rumyantsev, Russia, Spain, St Petersburg, Talleyrand, Tsar Alexander, Tuileries

• Correspondence between Caulaincourt and Talleyrand (III) …

  

  Baron Lelorgne d’Ideville, who later became an auditor at the Conseil d’État and the Emperor’s secretary, was then attached to the Ministry of Foreign Relations, and ought to have passed on the new letter Talleyrand wrote on 16 March. Madame de Canisy’s affairs were hardly proceeding. There was talk of the marriage of Antoinette de…

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  August 28, 2023

  Anecdotes, Diplomacy, General staff, Generals, Letters – Correspondence

  Asturias, Balkans, Baron, Bayonne, Bordeaux, Bourbons, British, Confederation of the Rhine, Conseil d'Etat, Dalberg, De Canisy, Denmark, Earl of Lauderdale, Emperor, Erfurt, Expedition, Finland, Flahaut, General Caulaincourt (Master of Horse), General Savary, Godoy, Grand Marshal Duroc, Grants, Helsinki, Hortense De Beauharnais, Hugues-Bernard Maret, Imprisonment, James Maitland, Joséphine, King Charles IV of Spain, Kingdom of Holland, Levant, Madame Visconti, Madrid, Marriage, Marshal Bernadotte, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Murat, Minister of Foreign Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moldavia, Napoleon, Napoleon III, Negotiations, Nompère de Champagny, Normandy, Ottoman Empire, Paris, Partition, Police, Prince, Prince of Peace, Prince-Primat, Prussia, Russia, Saint-Aignan, Spain, Sweden, Talleyrand, Tolstoy, Treaty, Tsar Alexander, Valençay, Wallachia

• A perspective from the French Imperial household on the battle of Bautzen, 1813 …

  

  The following extract is drawn from the excellent recollections of treasurer Guillaume Peyrusse (1776-1860) … 20 May (1813). – The entire (Imperial) headquarters was on its feet very early. One staff officer succeeded another. The corps of the dukes of Reggio (Oudinot), Taranto (Macdonald), Ragusa (Marmont) and General Bertrand made their arrangements to cross the…

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  August 15, 2023

  1813 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, French-Allied forces, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer

  Ambulance, Battle of Bautzen, Bautzen, Bivouac, Cuirassier, Daily life, Dresden, Emperor, France, General Bertrand, General Bruyère, General Latour-Maubourg, Grand Marshal Duroc, Headquarters, Household, Imperial Guard, Injuries, Italy, Looting, Marshal Macdonald, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Ney, Marshal Oudinot, Napoleon, Pillage, Prussia, Red Lancers, Redoubts, Reichenbach, Russia, Saxony, Spree, Supplies, Treasurer, Wurschen

• Correspondence between Caulaincourt and Talleyrand (II) …

  

  LETTERS FROM 1807-1809 News from Paris On 16 November 1807, Napoleon departed for Italy. A few days later, Caulaincourt was on his way to take up his post in St Petersburg. Since August, Talleyrand had no longer been Minister of Foreign Relations, but his retirement masked only a semi-disgrace. He had been given the pompous…

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  July 11, 2023

  Anecdotes, Diplomacy, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Letters – Correspondence

  Arenberg, Austria, Bavaria, Bayonne, Bordeaux, British, Confederation of the Rhine, De Canisy, Emperor, Erfurt, Eugène de Beauharnais, Fouché, General Auguste de Caulaincourt, General Caulaincourt (Master of Horse), General Savary, Grand Marshal Duroc, Grants, Hervas, Hortense De Beauharnais, Italy, Joséphine, London, Louis Bonaparte, Marriage, Marshal Berthier, Metternich, Minister of Foreign Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Napoleon, Negotiations, Paris, Prussia, Pyrenees, Russia, Spain, Talleyrand, Tsar Alexander, Tuileries

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

  

  … At Pamplona in March 1812, General Dorsenne, whose health was a source of serious concern, became extremely ill. Ulliac, the army’s chief surgeon, suggested operating him. The ailment manifested itself as severe headache. The general hesitated for a long time; he had the most magnificent hair in the world and it was a form…

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  July 6, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Engineers, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer, Peninsular War

  1812, Armistice, Baron Larrey, Battle of the Berezina, Berlin, Bivouac, Borisov, Borodino, Burning of Moscow, Colonel, Cossacks, Daily life, Emperor, Foodstuffs, General Dorsenne, General Kirgener, General Lauriston, General Montbrun, General Sébastiani, Grand Marshal Duroc, Grants, Grenadiers, Hessians, Injuries, Königsberg, Kovno, Kremlin, Mainz, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Bessières, Marshal Murat, Marshal Ney, Marshal Oudinot, Moscow, Napoleon, Narbonne, Orsha, Pamplona, Paris, Retreat, Russia, Smorgon', Soisy-sous-Étiolles, Spain, St Petersburg, Supplies, Surgeon, Tarutino, Vilna, Vitoria

• Correspondence between Caulaincourt and Talleyrand (I) …

  

  THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TALLEYRAND AND CAULAINCOURT On 13 July 1797, Squadron Commander Caulaincourt arrived in Paris. The previous year, he had travelled to Constantinople with the staff of General Aubert-Dubayet, the Directory’s ambassador to the Porte, and returned to France to escort Seyyid Al Effendi, the peculiar envoy of the Sultan that had fascinated Parisians…

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  July 4, 2023

  Aide-de-camp, Diplomacy, Generals, Letters – Correspondence

  Ambassy, Appointment, Austria, Battle of Eylau, Black Cabinet, Brienne, Courland, De Canisy, Duchess of Dino, Duke of Enghien, Emperor, Empress Marie-Louise, Erfurt, Ettenheim, Execution, First Restauration, Fouché, France, General Caulaincourt (Master of Horse), General Lauriston, Ghent, Grand Marshal Duroc, Grants, Joséphine, Marriage, Minister of Foreign Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Napoleon, Ottoman Empire, Paris, Russia, St Petersburg, Talleyrand, Treason, Tsar Alexander, Vincennes

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

  

  … On 21 May, the assault (on Danzig) was to take place. The enormous palisades of the bastion moat had resisted the effects of the gunpowder. The guns that raked them only tore them apart, and they had to be knocked down by digging up the earth beside them. A wide passage was opened, but…

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  June 16, 2023

  1807 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Allied (Coalition) forces, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Engineers, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Memoirs, Officer

  Armistice, Austria, Bashkirs, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Friedland, Berlin, Bivouac, Capitulation, Champs-Elysées, Chasseur, Colonel, Daily life, Danzig, Decorations, Emperor, Foodstuffs, General Bennigsen, General Bertrand, General Jarry, General Lacoste, Grand Marshal Duroc, Hanover, Inspection, Kalkreuth, Königsberg, King Frederick William III of Prussia, Light Infantry, Marengo, Marshal Bessières, Marshal Davout, Marshal Lannes, Marshal Murat, Marshal Ney, Marshal Soult, Money, Napoleon, Paris, Poland, Prussia, Russia, Russian Imperial Guard, Siege of Danzig (1807), Silesia, Spain, Supplies, Tartars, Tilsit, Tsar Alexander, Vienna