Tag: Line infantry

• Napoleon and the battle of Eylau, as recounted by General Jomini … (I)

  

  Note by the article’s author, Xavier de Courville. This account, which is an extract from Jomini’s unpublished memoirs, is not entirely in accordance with some others, for example that of Thiers. I am transcribing this document as it stands, as it may be of use to history. – X. C. On debouching from the great…

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  May 14, 2024

  1807 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Allied (Coalition) forces, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer

  Barclay de Tolly, Battalion, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Friedland, Bivouac, Bulletin, Chasseur à Cheval de la Garde Impériale, Colberg, Column, Cuirassier, Daily life, Danzig, Daumesnil, Dokhturov, Dragoons, Emperor, Eylau, Fog, General Bruyère, General d'Hautpoul, General Desjardins, General Dorsenne, General Exelmans, General Heudelet, General Jomini, General Le Blond de Saint-Hilaire, General Legrand, General Lestocq, General Leval, General Sacken, Graudenz, Grenadiers, Imperial Guard, Königsberg, Light Infantry, Line infantry, Marshal Augereau, Marshal Davout, Marshal Grouchy, Marshal Lefebvre, Marshal Murat, Marshal Ney, Marshal Soult, Marshal Victor, Moral, Mounts, Napoleon, Orderly, Orders, Poland, Pomerania, Posen, Prussia, Russia, Serpallen, Skirmishers, Snow, Squadron Commander, Square, Sweden, Topprinen, Voltigeurs, Woods, Zeal

• Fourrier François Hinard’s letters on the Austerlitz Campaign …

  

  Here are several lengthy letters of Fourrier François Hinard who served in General (future marshal) Suchet’s Division during the Austerlitz campaign. He provides many interesting details on daily life in the Grande Armée, hardships, money issues, family matters and battlefield experiences. Landshut (1) in Bavaria, 29 October 1805. Dear Rosalie, I can still enjoy the…

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  May 10, 2024

  1805 Campaign, Allied (Coalition) forces, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Diplomacy, Engineers, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer, Reports, Soldier

  Accomodation, Archduke Charles, Austerlitz, Austria, Battle of Austerlitz, Bavaria, Biberach, Billet, Bivouac, Blockade, Bourgeois, Brünn (Brno), Brest, Bulletin, Celebration, Chasseur à Cheval, Conscript, Conscription, Corporal, Coutances, Daily life, Danube, Donauwörth, Dysentery, Emperor, Emperor Francis of Austria, Family, Fatigue, Flag, Foodstuffs, Fourrier, France, Günzburg, General Beker, General Klein, General Mack, Grants, Hardship, Hospital, Howitzer, Hungary, Hunger, Illness, Injuries, Inn, Italy, Landshut, Line infantry, Linz, Locals, Marengo, Marshal Lannes, Marshal Masséna, Marshal Murat, Marshal Ney, Marshal Soult, Marshal Suchet, Money, Moral, Moravia, Napoleon, Normandy, Outpost, Paris, Peace, Postal service, Pressburg, Prisoner of war, Reconnaissance, Recovery, Religion, Retirement, Rhine, River, Russia, Russian Imperial Guard, Schönbrunn, Siege, Skirmishers, Spire, Strasbourg, Supplies, Talleyrand, Tsar Alexander, Tyrol, Ulm, Vienna

• Louis Jacques Romand and the turmoil of 1813 … (II)

  

  On the 30th, General Vandamme, commanding I Corps, entered the defiles of the Bohemian mountains, where he was soundly beaten by the [Allied] combined army. He lost most of his men and he himself was captured by the enemy. Our baggage having, ill-advisedly, followed that of this corps and finding itself on the road was…

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  May 9, 2024

  1813 Campaign, Allied (Coalition) forces, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Diplomacy, French-Allied forces, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer, Soldier

  Abdication, Administration, Ambulance, Ambush, Ammunition, Austria, Battle of Dresden, Battle of Kulm, Belfort, Billet, Bivouac, Bohemia, Bread, Cadre, Capitulation, Company, Count, Daily life, Depot, Dresden, Emperor, Equipment, Family, Fatigue, First Restauration, Foodstuffs, Fortifications, Garrison, General Bonnet, General Vandamme, Grenadiers, Hospital, Host, Hungary, Hunger, Illness, Imprisonment, King Louis XVIII, Langres, Leipzig, Line infantry, Marshal St Cyr, Metz, Minister of War, Napoleon, Paris, Pirna, Prisoner of war, Russia, Skirmishers, Starvation, Strasbourg, Supplies, Toplitz, Treason, Vermin, Vienna

• Louis Jacques Romand and the turmoil of 1813 … (I)

  

  The protagonist of these recollections is Louis Jacques Romand. He was born in Vauconcourt, part of the arrondissement of Gray, Haute-Saône Department, on 12 October 1790. He saw action in the campaign in Austria of 1809 as a fusilier chasseur of the Guard (1st Regiment). Romand then was assigned to a expeditionary battalion and travelled…

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  May 4, 2024

  1813 Campaign, Allied (Coalition) forces, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Administration, Aide-de-camp, Ammunition, Austria, Bamberg, Barracks, Battalion, Battle of Dresden, Bavaria, Billet, Bivouac, Bohemia, Brest, Brittany, Champs-Elysées, Cold, Courage, Daily life, Dresden, Dutch, Emperor, Emperor Francis of Austria, Equipment, Expedition, Family, Fencing, Fire, Flag, Franconia, Frankfurt, Freyberg, Fusiliers, Geishubel, General Bonnet, Germany, Governor, Haute-Saône, Hunger, Illness, Imperial Guard, Injuries, Inspection, Invalides, Line infantry, Mainz, Marshal Augereau, Marshal Kellerman, Marshal Sérurier, Marshal St Cyr, Mauritius, Metz, Minister of War, Napoleon, Navy, NCO, Paris, Peace, Pirna, Prisoner of war, Prussia, Quartermaster, Rain, Rhine, Russia, Russian Imperial Guard, Saint-Cloud, Saint-Denis, Saxony, Sergeant, Sergeant-major, Seychelles, Shako, Sojourn, Supplies, Training, Truce, Vauconcourt, Versailles, Vertus, Village, Würzburg

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

  

  Born on 5 September 1786 in Laon, Aisne, into a noble family originally from Berry, Auguste-Marie was the son of Jérôme Clément Agard, the Marquis of Maupas, and Marie-Madeleine de La Fons d’Happencourt. He married Geneviève-Stéphanie-Félicité-Cécile de Martiny on 2 January 1821. Maupas entered the École Militaire of Fontainebleau on 17 February 1805, and was…

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  May 2, 2024

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

  Aide-de-camp, Aisne, Ambush, Ammunition, Astorga, Asturias, Avignon, Ballesteros, Bayonne, Benavente, Bordeaux, Brigands, Burgos, Castile, Colonel, Daily life, Discipline, Dragoons, Dresden, Duke of Angoulême, Equipment, Execution, Exile, Fontainebleau, France, Garrison, General Bonnet, General Ferrey, General Kellerman, General Marchand, General Thomières, Germany, Guns, Hesdin, Inspection, Insubordination, Insurgency, King Louis XVIII, La Romana, Labagneza, Laon, Leipzig, Leon, Line infantry, Mainz, Mancilla, Marquesito, Marshal Brune, Marshal Masséna, Marshal Ney, Marshal Suchet, Mayorga, Military School, Mounts, Murder, Napoleon, Oviedo, Palencia, Poland, Portugal, Prisoner of war, Review, Rhine, Saint-Dizier, Salamanca, Santander, Scotland, Second Lieutenant, Spain, St-Jean-de-Luz, Toro, Valencia, Valladolid, Villapando, Vitoria, Zamora

• 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

• 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

• The Military Life of Bruno d’Ast … (II)

  

  Moscow, 20 September 1812. My dear father, you must have received my letter from Smolensk by now. I hope that it finds you in as good health as I am at the moment, despite the fatigue and hardship we had to endure before arriving in this city. I spoke to you in my last letter…

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  April 3, 2024

  1812 Campaign, 1813 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer, Soldier

  1812, Aachen, Accomodation, Aide-de-camp, Aix la-Chapelle, Appointment, Battle of Bautzen, Battle of Borodino, Battle of Lützen, Billet, Bivouac, Borodino, Breslau, Burning of Moscow, Captain, Captivity, Cold, Conscription, Daily life, Emperor, Family, Fatigue, General Lanusse, General Ricard, General Roguet, Grenade, Haute-Garonne, Imperial Guard, Königsberg, Legion of Honour, Leipzig, Liegnitz, Line infantry, Lintz, Loan, Mainz, Major, Marriage, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Ney, Marshal Pérignon, Money, Moscow, Moskva, Mounts, Mozhaysk, Naples, Napoleon, Neumark, Oder, Paris, Périgord, Périgueux, Pillage, Prisoner of war, Promotion, Prussia, Russia, Supplies, Tirailleurs, Toulouse, Vilna, Voltigeurs, Wine, Winter

• 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

• Marshal Poniatowski on the defence of the Vistula and the Duchy of Warsaw, January 1813 …

  

  To Marshal Davout. Warsaw, 20 January 1813. My Lord, I have just received the letter which Your Highness did me the honour of addressing to me on the 18th of this month. I only learned from its contents that His Majesty the King of Naples [Murat] has departed and that His Serene Highness the Prince…

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  January 23, 2024

  1812 Campaign, 1813 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Allied (Coalition) forces, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer, Reports, Soldier

  Austria, Bavaria, Cadre, Cracow, Duchy of Warsaw, Eugène de Beauharnais, Foodstuffs, General Reynier, Heavy Cavalry, Light Cavalry, Line infantry, Marshal Davout, Marshal Murat, Marshal Poniatowski, Modlin, Plock, Poland, Posen, Prussia, Retreat, Russia, Schwarzenberg, Supplies, Vistula, Vistula Legion, Warsaw, Zamosc