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• Letters of Marshal Berthier from the 1814 Campaign …

  

  In the following four letters (dated 8 to 15 March 1814), Berthier seems to share the Emperor’s hopes and illusions; he reports the battle of Craonne which, Napoleon said, was glorious. He heralded the recapture of Soissons and Rheims; he even suggested that the enemy was troubled, threatened on all sides by the levée en…

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  May 4, 2023

  1814 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer, Reports

  Alsace, Austria, Bashkirs, Captivity, Chavignon, Châlons, Count de Langeron, Craonne, Epernay, General Corbineau, General Gérard, General Saint-Priest, General Yorck, Guards of Honour, Imprisonment, Insurgency, Kalmyks, L'Ange-Gardien, Laon, Levée en masse, Marshal Augereau, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Macdonald, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Mortier, Marshal Ney, Marshal Oudinot, National Guard, Prussia, Rheims, Russia, Soissons