Tag: Heat

• 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

• Correspondence of grognard Jean-Henry Rattier (IV) …

  

  Bayonne, 15 March 1812. We arrived here the day before yesterday, and we are leaving tomorrow for Paris, where we will arrive on 16 April. I would have obtained permission to go to Ardèche, but I had to be in the capital by 15 April, which prevented me from obtaining it. I could only have…

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  December 19, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Anecdotes, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Medicine – Surgery, Officer, Peninsular War, Soldier

  1812, Accomodation, Avignon, Baggage, Bavaria, Bayonne, Berlin, Billet, Bivouac, Brandy, Cadre, Cahors, Captain, Captivity, Clothing, Conscription, Corporal, Cossacks, Cuirassier, Daily life, Debts, Doctor, Duna, Emperor, Equipment, Family, Foodstuffs, France, General Curial, General Rampon, Germany, Government, Grants, Heat, Homesick, Hunger, Injuries, Inspection, Kaiserslautern, Krasnoi, Lieutenant, Lieutenant Colonel, Locals, Mainz, Military School, Misery, Money, Mounts, Napoleon, Paris, Pay, Peace, Peninsular War, Plunder, Poland, Posen, Possessions, Prisoner of war, Provisioning, Prussia, Ruin, Russia, Sarrelouis, Scorched earth, Siberia, Smolensk, Stragglers, Supplies, Surgeon, Swiss, Thirst, Toulouse, Training, Transport, Vilna

• The first years of service of a Swiss surgeon, Italy & Spain (1808-1809)

  

  The following paragraphs are derived from the notebooks of Antoine Kaempfen, a native from Switzerland (Canton of Valais) who would pursue a career in the medical services of the French army. He also wrote recollections on the 1812 campaign in Russia (read an excerpt here). … The arrival of my brevet, by which I was…

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  October 23, 2023

  Anecdotes, French-Allied forces, General staff, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer, Peninsular War, Police – Gendarmerie, Soldier

  Accomodation, Adjudant Major, Administration, Amputation, Battalion Commander, Billet, Bivouac, Blockade, Brigands, Captain, Cowardice, Daily life, Debts, Depot, Discharge, Emperor, Family, Figueras, Gambling, General Reille, Genoa, Girona, Heat, Hospital, Illness, Injuries, Insurgency, Major, Marseille, Medical Officer, Money, Napoleon, Offences, Officer, Outpost, Pay, Peasants, Perpignan, Pyrenees, Religion, Retirement, Romance, Service, Siege, Spain, Supplies, Surgeon, Swiss, Treasurer

• A Belgian cavalryman in Moscow, 1812 …

  

  A relative of our Belgian soldier here, Constant de Limon (officer in the 1st Regiment of Chasseurs à Cheval, General Bordessoule’s Brigade, part of Davout’s I Corps), forwarded the latter’s letter to a younger brother of our protagonist: Mister Delimon (sic, De Limon), place du Carrefour de Lodeau n° 4, in Paris. Ypres, 6 November…

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  September 27, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Anecdotes, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Letters – Correspondence, Marshals, Medicine – Surgery, Officer

  1812, Battle of Borodino, Belgian, Belgium, Borodino, Burning of Moscow, Chasseur à Cheval, Cold, Colonel, Cossacks, Daily life, Doctor, Fatigue, General Bordessoulle, General Montbrun, Grants, Heat, Hospital, Illness, Injuries, Looting, Marshal Davout, Marshal Lefebvre, Moscow, Officer, Pillage, Russia, Surgeon, Ypres

• The early stages of the Russian campaign, recounted by an officer …

  

  … On my arrival at Berlin, I received the order to proceed to Warsaw, carrying dispatches to Prince Jérôme; my instructions required me to follow the operations of this army corps until further notice. On the departure of King Jérôme, who was displeased to see himself placed under the command of Marshal Davout, I left…

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  June 28, 2023

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

  1812, Appointment, Austria, Battle of Smolensk, Battle of Valutino, Berlin, Bivouac, Chasseur à Cheval, Chief of Staff, Colonel, Daily life, Duchy of Warsaw, Dvina, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, General Friant, General Gérard, General Grabowski, General Gudin, General Junot, General Latour-Maubourg, General Marchand, General Reynier, General Sébastiani, General Vandamme, Grenadiers, Headquarters, Heat, Imperial Guard, Injuries, Insubordination, Jérôme Bonaparte, Kovno, Krasny, Lancers, Legion of Honour, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Davout, Marshal Poniatowski, Mir, Mogilev, Mud, Niemen, Poland, Prince Bagration, Promotion, River, Russia, Saxony, Schwarzenberg, Scorched earth, Supplies, Vilna, Vitebsk, Voltigeurs, Westphalia