Tag: Horse Artillery

• 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

• The battle of Fuentes de Oñoro, recounted by a staff officer …

  

  Here follows an excerpt from Emmanuel-Frédéric Sprünglin’s (1773-1844) exceptional memoirs, which he wrote based on his detailed journal he kept during his service in the Peninsular War. On 3 October 1810, our Swiss-born officer was appointed deputy (adjoint) battalion commander in the general staff of the Army of Portugal. When the decision was made for…

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  February 28, 2024

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

  Agueda, Alameda, Almeida, Army of Portugal, Azava, Battalion Commander, Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro, Cantonments, Carpio, Castelo Bom, Castile, Ciudad Rodrigo, Coa, Duke of Wellington, Entrenchments, Equipment, Espeja, Fatigue, Fortifications, Gallegos, General Brenier, General Drouet d'Erlon, General Ferrey, General Heudelet, General Loison, General Marchand, General Maucune, General Montbrun, General Reynier, Horse Artillery, Leon, Light Artillery, Light Infantry, Marialva, Marshal Bessières, Marshal Masséna, Marshal Ney, Peninsular War, Portugal, Pozobello, Rearguard, Retreat, River, Skirmishers, Spain, Vanguard, Vilar Formoso, Voltigeurs

• An account on the battle of the Gebora and the siege of Badajoz, February-March 1811 …

  

  Some time after the capture of the fort of Pardaleras, General Jérôme-Dominique Bourgeat (1760-1827) again assumed an active and decisive role in one of the key events of the siege of Badajoz, known as the battle of the Gebora. Charged with preparing the action of the attacking troops, he bombarded the enemy camp so effectively…

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  February 20, 2024

  Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Engineers, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer, Peninsular War, Reports, Soldier

  Army of the South, Badajoz, Bivouac, Breach, Capitulation, Captain, Elvas, Entrenchments, Fatigue, Foot Artillery, Fortifications, Gebdia, Gebora, General Bourgeat, General Latour-Maubourg, Grenadiers, Guadiana, Guns, Horse Artillery, Howitzer, Illness, Injuries, Lieutenant, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Mortier, Marshal Soult, Pardaleras, River, San-Cristobal, Sappers, Seville, Siege, Spain, Train, Transport

• A doctor’s recounting of the battle of Ostrovno, July 1812 …

  

  Raymond Faure (1786-1850), a doctor in I Cavalry Corps of the Grande Armée, provides the following account of this engagement in his memoirs: Our corps (I Corps) was the vanguard of the army, and we had been in sight of the enemy for two or three days; a few cannon shots had been exchanged. On…

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  January 24, 2024

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

  1812, Army of Italy, Arson, Bivouac, Crews, Cuirassier, Emperor, Equipment, Fatigue, Fire, Gunner, Guns, Heavy Cavalry, Horse Artillery, Hussars, Imperial Guard, Light Cavalry, Marshal Murat, Mounts, Napoleon, Ostrovno, Outpost, Picket, Pillage, Polish Lancers, Retreat, Russia, Scorched earth, Supplies, Vanguard, Village, Vilna, Vitebsk

• Some correspondence related to the campaign in Austria, 1809 …

  

  Lieutenant Augustin Le Pelletier de Voillemont, born on 27 March 1785 in Paris, who served in the 19th Infantry Regiment (composed of three battalions) led by Colonel Aubry (part of General Dupas’ Division, with Bernadotte as commander of IX Corps), wrote the following missives, full of details on the engagements he was involved in, as…

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  November 23, 2023

  1809 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer

  Accomodation, Aisne, Austria, Baggage, Baron, Battalion Commander, Battle of Aspern-Essling, Battle of Wagram, Billet, Bivouac, Captain, Certificate, Clothing, Company, Conscript, Count Daru, Daily life, Depot, Emperor, Equipment, Foot Artillery, Fusiliers, General Boulart, General Drouot, General Lariboisière, General Legrand, Horse Artillery, Injuries, Inspection, Krems, La Fère, Landwehr, Legion of Honour, Lieutenant, Marshal Bernadotte, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Masséna, Mühldorf, Money, Napoleon, Paris, Pay, Promotion, Rouen, Second Lieutenant, Skirmishers, Strasbourg, Supplies, Ulm, Vienna, Voltigeurs, Znaïm

• A letter on the retreat from Russia, by an artillery officer …

  

  The author of the following letter, Jean-Michel-Marie Prévost, son of Henri-François, councillor to the King, judge, magistrate in the seneschal and presiding court of Clermont-Ferrand, and Marguerite Monestier, was born in Clermont-Ferrand on 26 July 1782. Prévost entered the École Polytechnique on 1 Frimaire Year 10, became a student second lieutenant on 1 Vendémiaire Year…

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  November 21, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Artillery, Engineers, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer

  1812, Accomodation, Aide-de-camp, Battle of the Berezina, Bivouac, Clermont-Ferrand, Cold, Cossacks, Daily life, Dresden, Family, Foodstuffs, Foot Artillery, Horse Artillery, Injuries, Königsberg, Kovno, Krasnoi, Legion of Honour, Lyon, Magdeburg, Marriage, Moscow, National Guard, Pillage, Prisoner of war, Prussia, Rearguard, Retreat, Russia, Supplies, Thorn, Tilsit, Vilna, Vistula

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

  

  TO COUNT DE LAVALETTE, DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE EMPIRE’S POSTAL SERVICES, IN PARIS. Moscow, 16 October 1812. My dear Count, I have the honour of informing you that the Intendant General has ordered me to bring down the postal service between France and Gumbinnen to one courier every two days, and the one between the…

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  June 30, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer, Reports, Soldier

  1812, Battle of Borodino, Battle of Maloyaroslavets, Battle of Smolensk, Berlin, Bivouac, Borodino, Burning of Moscow, Clothing, Colonel, Cossacks, Count Daru, Cuirassier, Custrin, Daily life, Dinaburg, Dorogobuzh, Fatigue, General Beaumont, General Caulaincourt (Master of Horse), General Desvaux de Saint-Maurice, General Sébastiani, Glogau, Gumbinnen, Headquarters, Horse Artillery, Injuries, Kaluga, Lieutenant, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Davout, Money, Moscow, Moskva, Mozhaysk, NCO, Niemen, Orsha, Paris, Posen, Postal service, Prussia, Redoubts, River, Russia, Smolensk, Stettin, Supplies, Surgeon, Vilna, Vitebsk, Vyazma, Warsaw

• Chef d’escadron Mathieu and the 1813 campaign …

  

  The author of the following account was a French squadron commander in the horse artillery. Here is an extract from his recollections, set during the 1813 campaign … An order of the Minister of War stated to form four companies with 78 men [remnants of the seven companies remaining at the end of the Russian…

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  June 21, 2022

  1813 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Memoirs, Officer

  Horse Artillery, Journal, Leipzig