Tag: Lieutenant

• A captain’s memoirs on the 1809 Campaign …

  

  Our narrator, Jérôme-Etienne Besse, was born on 5 May 1774 at Aubiac, in the Lot-et-Garonne Department. He recounts his experiences of the war against Austria. Besse served in the 84th Line Infantry Regiment. He eventually also saw action in Russia, was sent to Siberia as a prisoner, and returned in time to fight at the…

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  May 16, 2024

  1809 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Engineers, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer

  Accomodation, Adjutant, Agen, Armistice, Army of Italy, Aubiac, Austerlitz, Austria, Battle of Wagram, Battle of Waterloo, Bergamo, Billet, Bread, Bridge, Bulletin, Captain, Captivity, Clothing, Colonel, Count, Daily life, Dalmatia, Danube, Dragoons, Eagle, Emperor, Equipment, Eugène de Beauharnais, Fatigue, Fire, Flag, Foodstuffs, Fortifications, Friuli, Garonne, General Bourcier, Germany, Gore, Grants, Gratz, Gyulai, Gyulay, Hunger, Injuries, Insurgency, Italy, Legion of Honour, Lieutenant, Lot, Marshal Marmont, Montebello, Napoleon, Peace, Pillage, Pontoon, Pressburg, Promotion, Retreat, Russia, Salice, Schönbrunn, Second Lieutenant, Sergeant, Sergeant-major, Supplies, Tyrol, Udine, Voltigeurs

• The experiences of Dragoon Auguste de Maupas in Spain and Portugal, 1808-1812 (II)

  

  Valladolid, 5 December 1809. – I only have time to send you an embrace and inform you that I am in good health. We have arrived at Valladolid, where we will stay with General Kellerman until further notice. We engaged in a number of affairs which I am sure you will be able to find…

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  May 6, 2024

  Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer, Peninsular War, Soldier

  Abrantes, Accomodation, Administration, Alba de Tormes, Alcanizas, Alenquer, Almeida, Ammunition, Army of Portugal, Avila, Battle of Bussaco, Billet, Bivouac, Brigands, British, Burgos, Cadre, Captain, Coimbra, Daily life, Depot, Desertion, Dragoons, Duke of Wellington, Equipment, Extremadura, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, Fortifications, France, General Brenier, General Kellerman, General Montbrun, Guerilla, Lancers, Leiria, Lieutenant, Limoges, Lisbon, Madrid, Marshal Masséna, Marshal Ney, Ourém, Outpost, Placencia, Pombal, Portugal, Prisoner of war, Promotion, Punhete, Rain, Rearguard, Reconnaissance, Redinha, Retirement, Retreat, River, Rodrigo, Salamanca, Spain, Supplies, Tagus, Valladolid, Viseu, Zamora, Zêzere

• 1813-14 letters from Cuirassier Brigadier Pilloy

  

  The following letters are drawn from a voluminous register which also contains copies of the Emperor’s proclamations, accounts of our narrator’s travels and more or less unusual recipes. The author in question is Étienne-Nicolas Pilloy, born in Santeau, canton of Pithiviers (Loiret), a farmer by trade. Here are his service records: 13th Cuirassier Regiment. Entered…

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  April 18, 2024

  1813 Campaign, 1814 Campaign, Anecdotes, Cavalry, Letters – Correspondence, Soldier

  Alsace, Battle of Waterloo, Bivouac, Blockade, Blois, Brigadier, Caen, Colmar, Conscription, Cossacks, Cuirassier, Daily life, Discharge, Discipline, Equipment, Fortifications, France, General Lemarois, Germany, Hospital, Illness, Labour, Laon, Lieutenant, Loiret, Louvain, Lusignan, Magdeburg, Melun, Metz, Money, Mounted Carabiniers, Mounts, Noirt, Normandy, Orléans, Poitiers, Poitou, Pontoon, Prussia, River, Siege, Supplies, Thionville, Tours, Wesel, Westphalia

• Captain Puffeney’s recollections of the 1806-1807 Campaigns …

  

  The son of humble farmers from the Franche-Comté region, Captain Pierre-François Puffeney was born in Les Planches, near Arbois, on 5 December 1772. He was not yet twenty when he enlisted as a volunteer in the 2nd Battalion of the Jura, to fly, as it was then called, to the defence of the Fatherland. A…

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  April 4, 2024

  1806 Campaign, 1807 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Arbois, Baggage, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Friedland, Battle of Ostrołęka, Billet, Bivouac, Captain, Chief of Staff, Contusion, Corporal, Czarnowo, Daily life, Danzig, Decorations, Discipline, Duchy, Emperor, Erlangen, Eylau, Family, Fatigue, France, Franche-Comté, General Bennigsen, General Campana, General Essen, General Gazan, General Reille, General Savary, Glogau, Grenadiers, Grodno, Host, Hussars, Injuries, Jura, Königsberg, Legion of Honour, Lieutenant, Light Infantry, Line infantry, Lissa, Locals, Marshal Davout, Marshal Lannes, Marshal Masséna, Marshal Oudinot, Marshal Suchet, Mittellangdorff, Mud, Napoleon, Ostrolenka, Poland, Pregel, Prussia, Pultusk, Retreat, Rhine, River, Russia, Second Lieutenant, Sergeant-major, Siege of Danzig (1807), Silesia, Spain, Supplies, Tilsit, Town, Transport, Tsar Alexander, Village, Warsaw, Wartenberg, Winter, Woods

• 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

• Letters of Désiré Trefcon, quartermaster in the 22nd Dragoons – 1806-1807

  

  Désiré Trefcon was conscripted in Year VII and initially served with his brothers Pierre-Antoine and Toussaint-Jean in the 15th Demi-Brigade. Due to his frail health and poor tolerance of arduous stages, he was almost constantly assigned to the depot companies. He had therefore remained in Bitche (Moselle Department) during the brilliant campaign of 1800. Eager…

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  January 11, 2024

  1806 Campaign, 1807 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer

  Battle of Austerlitz, Battle of Friedland, Berlin, Bitche, Bivouac, Captain, Daily life, Depot, Dragoons, Emperor, Family, Fatigue, General Carrié, Illness, Königsberg, Legion of Honour, Liège, Lieutenant, Line infantry, Locals, Marshal Grouchy, Marshal Murat, Misery, Mounts, Napoleon, NCO, Niemen, Ostrolenka, Paris, Poland, Prussia, Quartermaster, Rhine, Russia, Tilsit, Vanguard, Vistula, Warsaw

• A dragoon under Marshal Murat – Letters of the 1806-1807 Campaigns (I)

  

  In the spring of 1806, Amédée Le Nourry, captain-adjutant-major in the 16th Dragoon Regiment, was posted on the banks of the Inn, near Passau, alongside Marshal Soult’s army corps. Adjutant-major Le Nourry was an excellent officer with a keen understanding of his profession. Born on 8 July 1777 in Craconville near Evreux, he volunteered for…

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  January 8, 2024

  1806 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Diplomacy, General staff, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer

  Accomodation, Adjudant Major, Altmühl, Armistice, Austerlitz, Austria, Baden, Battle of Austerlitz, Battle of Jena, Bavaria, Berlin, Billet, Bivouac, Braunau, Captain, Colonel, Craconville, Daily life, Danube, Depot, Dragoons, Emperor, Evreux, Family, Foot Artillery, France, Franconia, Germany, Grenadiers, Haugwitz, Hohenlohe, Household, Inn, Inspection, King Frederick William III of Prussia, Kronach, Lieutenant, Locals, Magdeburg, Mainz, Marshal Murat, Marshal Soult, Metz, Meudon, Money, Mounts, Napoleon, Newspapers, Oder, Passau, Pay, Peace, Poland, Postal service, Potsdam, Prenzlau, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, Prussia, Ratisbonne, Regensburg, Review, Russia, Saxony, Scharding, Squadron Commander, Sulzbach, Tsar Alexander, Vienna, Württemberg, Würzburg

• Correspondence of an artillery officer during the Russian campaign …

  

  On 15 June 1810, young Delaval, the eldest son of a family living in the small town of Tournus in the Department of Saône-et-Loire, received an order to enter the School of Saint-Cyr on 20 July. After completing his studies at the military school on 2 April 1812 with the rank of lieutenant second class…

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  January 2, 2024

  1812 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Engineers, General staff, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer

  1812, Accomodation, Ammunition, Billet, Bivouac, Brandenburg, Bug, Captain, Clothing, Cold, Daily life, Danzig, Doctor, Dresden, Drill, Earthworks, Elbe, Emperor, Equipment, Family, Fever, Foodstuffs, Foot Artillery, Frankfurt, Fulda, Garrison, General Durutte, Germany, Grants, Grenoble, Illness, Jena, Legion of Honour, Liège, Lieutenant, Magdeburg, Medical Officer, Military School, Minden, Money, Mounts, Napoleon, Paris, Pay, Paymaster, Postal service, Prussia, Retreat, Russia, Saône-et-Loire, Saxony, Second Lieutenant, Smolensk, Spandau, St Petersburg, Stages, Supplies, Transport, Vistula, Warsaw, Wesel

• 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

• Dedicated to the Imperial Cause – Letters of the Dandalle Family (I) …

  

  Introductions by the authors The reader is in for a unique experience from the outset, as the authenticity of the study’s content is striking. The sense of duty, the boundless admiration for their Emperor, Napoleon I, made these officers from the ranks perform nearly astonishing feats. They travelled the length and breadth of Europe, as…

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  December 16, 2023

  1805 Campaign, 1806 Campaign, 1807 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Armistice, Auerstedt, Austerlitz, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Jena, Belgium, Berlin, Billet, Bivouac, Brest, British, Captain, Chasseur, Chouans, Company, Conscript, Conscription, Cossacks, Custrin, Daily life, Depot, Elbe, Emperor, Family, Franconia, Germany, Grants, Hunger, Huningue, Imperial Guard, Injuries, Italy, Küstrin, Lieutenant, Light Infantry, Lille, Marshal Murat, Napoleon, NCO, Normandy, Pay, Peace, Poland, Posen, Potsdam, Prussia, Roads, Saale, Sarnowo, Saxony, Sergeant-major, Skirmishers, Sockoczim, Supplies, Tsar Alexander, Vendée, Vistula, Voltigeurs, Warsaw, Weimar, Winter