Tag: Hanover

• Recollections on the battle of Salamanca, 1812 …

  

  Alphonse d’Hautpoul was born at Versailles on 4 January 1789. He was a cousin of the cavalry general of the same name, who lost his life at the battle at Eylau. Alphonse’s brother, Amand, served in the horse artillery of the Imperial Guard. Attending the Military School at Fontainebleau, Alphonse departed there as a second…

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  April 15, 2024

  Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Marshals, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer, Peninsular War

  1812, Accomodation, Arapiles, Army of Portugal, Aspecia, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Friedland, Battle of Salamanca, British, Captain, Captivity, Clothing, Colonel, Daily life, Doctor, Duke of Wellington, Eagle, England, Fever, Fontainebleau, Gangrene, General Bonnet, General Clauzel, General Curto, General d'Hautpoul, General Ferey, General Foy, General Hill, General Maucune, General Taupin, General Thomières, Guerilla, Hanover, Health, Heat, Horse Artillery, Hospital, Illness, Imprisonment, Injuries, Insurgency, Italy, Légion du Midi, Line infantry, Manoeuvres, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Ney, Military School, Misery, Peninsular War, Poland, Porto, Portugal, Prussia, Religion, Salamanca, Scottish, Second Lieutenant, Sergeant, Skirmishers, Spain, Square, Surgeon, Tormes, Transport, Treatment, Vermin, Versailles

• 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

• Correspondence from Charleroi conscripts under Napoleon (II) …

  

  Letters from Pierre-Joseph Guilbert to his father Pierre-Joseph Guilbert was born in Jumet on 18 March 1781. He was the son of Charles and Marie Perony. A conscript of the Year IX (1800), he became a fusilier in the 5th Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 94th Line Infantry Regiment, 3rd Division of the…

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  February 26, 2024

  1805 Campaign, 1806 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Generals, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Peninsular War, Soldier

  Accomodation, Armistice, Austria, Baden, Battle of Austerlitz, Bavaria, Belgian, Belgium, Billet, Bivouac, Black Forest, Brigadier, British, Castile, Certificate, Charleroi, Conscript, Conscription, Cuirassier, Daily life, Desertion, Draft evasion, Dragoons, Duke of Wellington, Emperor Francis of Austria, Equipment, Family, Fürth, Fleurus, France, Freiburg im Breisgau, Fusiliers, Galicia (Spain), General Auguste de Caulaincourt, Germany, Hanover, Injuries, Joseph Bonaparte, Jumet, King Charles IV of Spain, Legion of Honour, Madrid, Marshal Jourdan, Marshal Murat, Merbes-le-Château, Misery, Mounted Carabiniers, Poland, Portugal, Prisoner of war, Prussia, Quartermaster, Religion, Rhine, Royal Guard, Russia, Saxony, Spain, Strasbourg, Tagus, Talavera, Train, Tsar Alexander, Württemberg, Weaponsmith

• Correspondence from Charleroi conscripts under Napoleon (I) …

  

  Introduction by Pierre-Jean Niebes, archivist at the Belgian State Archives of Mons Many of the prominent figures of the Napoleonic period have written their memoirs, both civilian and military, and these have been published in numerous editions since the 19th century. The testimonies of ordinary soldiers shed a different light, perhaps more concise but just…

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  February 14, 2024

  1805 Campaign, 1806 Campaign, Anecdotes, Battle, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Medicine – Surgery, Soldier

  Accomodation, Administration, Austria, Battle of Austerlitz, Bavaria, Billet, Bivouac, Bohemia, Camp of Boulogne, Capitulation, Captivity, Certificate, Charleroi, Chasseur, Clothing, Cold, Conscript, Conscription, Daily life, Depot, Draft, Draft evasion, Dragoons, Emperor Francis of Austria, Equipment, Family, France, General Laplanche, Gosselies, Grenadiers, Gunboat, Hanover, Hunger, Injuries, Jemappes, Lancers, Line infantry, Linz, Maastricht, Marching, Marengo, Marshal Bernadotte, Money, Mons, Montignies-sur-Sambre, Mounts, Munich, Music, Musician, Napoleon, Newspapers, Nuremberg, Paris, Peace, Picardy, prefecture, Prisoner of war, Prussia, Religion, Retreat, Russia, Sergeant, Somme, Supplies, Tailor, Uhlans, Ulm, Vienna, Wissembourg

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

  

  A few soldiers’ letters from the region now known as the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg … *** Stamp: N° 23, GRANDE ARMÉE. To Mr. Conrad Klein, merchant tanner at Medernach, district of Dickirch, Department of Forêts, via Luxembourg, at Dickirch in Medernach. Königsberg, 5 July 1812. Most beloved parents! It is with great pleasure that…

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  August 3, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Letters – Correspondence, Soldier

  1812, Accomodation, Berlin, Bivouac, Clothing, Cold, Cuirassier, Daily life, Depot, Desertion, Emperor, Eylau, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, Frost, Glogau, Grenadier-Tirailleurs, Hanover, Hunger, Illness, Injuries, Königsberg, Luxembourg, Mainz, Money, Mud, Napoleon, Prussia, Russia, Silesia, Supplies, Theft, Warsaw

• 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

• A letter of a Grenadier à Cheval, September 1807 …

  

  Our officer, who enrolled in the vélites of the Grenadiers in 1806, became a second lieutenant in 1809. Lego was later assigned to the 1st Cuirassiers Regiment. He was appointed lieutenant in 1811. He was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1812. He became aide-de-camp to General Lefebvre in October 1812. He subsequently joined the…

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  April 14, 2023

  1807 Campaign, Cavalry, Imperial Guard, Letters – Correspondence

  Accomodation, Amiens, Cuirassier, Daily life, Fatigue, Germany, Grenadiers à Cheval, Hanover, Illness, Marshal Mortier, Rape

• Memoirs of a Dutch cavalry officer at Waterloo …

  

  Heuvingh recounts his time serving in the 4th Regiment of Dutch-Belgian Light Dragoons in the 1815 campaign … … Hardly had the Dutch government been informed that Napoleon, in March 1815, had escaped from the island of Elba and returned to France, when the various military corps soon received orders to advance to the southern…

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  September 20, 2022

  1815 Campaign, Allied (Coalition) forces, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Infantry, Memoirs, Officer

  Battle of Waterloo, Bivouac, Blücher, British, Daily life, Duke of Wellington, Dutch, Dutch-Belgians, Hanover, Mont St Jean, Quartermaster

• A Flemish dragoon’s journey to Russia …

  

  Hanover, 2 July 1812. My dear Father and Mother, Sisters and Brother, I inform you on the state of my health and I hope to hear yours as well. I let you know that on 6 June we departed to join our regiment, although we are unaware where it is located. It could be either…

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  August 26, 2022

  1812 Campaign, Cavalry, Letters – Correspondence, Soldier

  1812, Bivouac, Conscript, Daily life, Dragoons, Flanders, Flemish, Hanover, Invasion, Russia, Westphalia