Tag: Marshal Bernadotte

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

  

  In September 1811, Alphonse, now definitively released from his clothing employment, sent a detachment by boat from Huningue to Wesel to join the regiment. He travelled to Hamburg, made contact with Hubert and returned to the Huningue depot, bidding it farewell on 20 April 1812 when he left for Cologne with another detachment. It is…

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  March 13, 2024

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

  1812, Austria, Barclay de Tolly, Battle of Borodino, Battle of Maloyaroslavets, Battle of Smolensk, Battle of the Berezina, Berlin, Bivouac, Borodino, Borovsk, Brandy, Bulletin, Burning of Moscow, Captain, Cold, Cologne, Cossacks, Croatia, Cuirassier, Daily life, Danzig, Depot, Dnieper, Dvina, Foodstuffs, France, General Moreau, General Nansouty, Germany, Grants, Hamburg, Hanover, Huningue, Italy, Kaluga, Königsberg, Kovno, Kremlin, Legion of Honour, Light Infantry, Lithuania, Magdeburg, Marshal Bernadotte, Marshal Mortier, Marshal Victor, Minsk, Money, Moscow, Moskva, Napoleon, Niemen, Poland, Polotsk, Prince Bagration, Prisoner of war, River, Russia, Studienka, Supplies, Sweden, Swiss, Tilsit, Tsar Alexander, Vanguard, Vilna, Vitebsk, Voltigeurs, Vyazma, Water, Wesel

• 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

• Archduke Charles’ correspondence from the 1809 Campaign

  

  Ried, this 8th April 1809. My dearest uncle, I arrived here yesterday, though not without having suffered a lot from the cold. Everything here is covered with snow. I leave this afternoon for Altheim. I will be in Braunau tomorrow evening, and the day after tomorrow before daylight I will cross my Rubicon, if, as…

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  January 17, 2024

  1809 Campaign, Allied (Coalition) forces, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, French-Allied forces, General staff, Generals, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals

  Aderklaa, Altenburg, Archduke Charles, Armistice, Austria, Battle of Aspern-Essling, Battle of Ebelsberg, Battle of Eckmühl, Battle of Wagram, Battle of Znaim, Bellegarde, Bohemia, Brünn (Brno), Bridge, Budweis, Comorn, Croatia, Danube, Depot, Emperor, Engerau, Entrenchments, Eugène de Beauharnais, Family, Galicia (Poland), General Hiller, General Junot, General Molitor, General Montbrun, General Pajol, General Stutterheim, General Vandamme, Germany, Grand Marshal Duroc, Gross-Enzersdorf, Gyulai, Hungary, Illness, Kollowrat, Landshut, Landwehr, Lüneburg, Liechtenstein, Linz, Lobau, Markgrafneusiedl, Marshal Bernadotte, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Davout, Marshal Kellerman, Marshal Macdonald, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Masséna, Marshal Ney, Metternich, Moravia, Napoleon, Neumark, Olmütz, Poland, Pontoon, Prague, Pressburg, Raab, Radetzky, Regensburg, Ried, River, Russbach, Salzburg, Saxony, Schöngrabern, Silesia, Stadion, Teschen, Tsar Alexander, Tyrol, Vienna, Wallachia, Znaïm

• Remarks on the battle of Wagram, by General Édouard Colbert …

  

  General Pierre David Édouard de Colbert-Chabanais (1774-1853), in his ‘Unpublished Remarks’, wrote a concise account of the battle of Wagram. Its simplicity and modesty enhance its interest. We reproduce it here verbatim, together with some other manuscripts that he drew up. According to the orders given the day before by Napoleon, the French light cavalry…

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  December 6, 2023

  1809 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Allied (Coalition) forces, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, French-Allied forces, General staff, Generals, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer

  Accomodation, Aide-de-camp, Ammunition, Archduke Charles, Austria, Batteries, Battle of Aspern-Essling, Battle of Wagram, Bivouac, Brigadier, Chasseur à Cheval, Count Daru, Danube, Emperor, Empress Marie-Louise, Eugène de Beauharnais, General Auguste Colbert, General Bruyère, General Dupas, General Edouard Colbert, General Jacquinot, General Lasalle, General Lauriston, General Marulaz, General Montbrun, General Morand, General Pajol, General Piré, Guns, Hungary, Imperial Guard, Injuries, Italy, Light Cavalry, Lobau, Marshal Bernadotte, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Davout, Marshal Masséna, Marshal Oudinot, Moravia, Napoleon, Outpost, Pontoon, Prisoner of war, Recovery, Redoubts, Retreat, River, Rosenberg, Saxony, Vanguard, Vienna, Znaïm

• 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

• Letters of infantry corporal Charles Vanesse, 1806 …

  

  A few more letters of this soldier from the 8th Infantry Regiment, prior and following the battles of Jena and Auerstädt … Anspach, 24 April 1806, I Corps of the Grande Armée. C. J. Vanesse to Miss VANESSE. Dear Sister, Your pleasant letter dated 17 January, as well as that from Van den Bruggen, reached…

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  October 12, 2023

  1806 Campaign, Anecdotes, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Officer, Soldier

  1806, Accomodation, Anspach, Berlin, Billet, Brabant, Certificate, Clothing, Colonel, Corporal, Daily life, Depot, Dragoons, Drill, Emperor, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, Germany, Headquarters, Heilbronn, Hussars, Illness, Karchów, King Frederick William III of Prussia, Lübeck, Line infantry, Locals, Major, Marshal Bernadotte, Money, Napoleon, Poland, Portrait, Prussia, Service, Suicide, Supplies, Thorn, Travemünde, Vistula

• Correspondence between Caulaincourt and Talleyrand (III) …

  

  Baron Lelorgne d’Ideville, who later became an auditor at the Conseil d’État and the Emperor’s secretary, was then attached to the Ministry of Foreign Relations, and ought to have passed on the new letter Talleyrand wrote on 16 March. Madame de Canisy’s affairs were hardly proceeding. There was talk of the marriage of Antoinette de…

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  August 28, 2023

  Anecdotes, Diplomacy, General staff, Generals, Letters – Correspondence

  Asturias, Balkans, Baron, Bayonne, Bordeaux, Bourbons, British, Confederation of the Rhine, Conseil d'Etat, Dalberg, De Canisy, Denmark, Earl of Lauderdale, Emperor, Erfurt, Expedition, Finland, Flahaut, General Caulaincourt (Master of Horse), General Savary, Godoy, Grand Marshal Duroc, Grants, Helsinki, Hortense De Beauharnais, Hugues-Bernard Maret, Imprisonment, James Maitland, Joséphine, King Charles IV of Spain, Kingdom of Holland, Levant, Madame Visconti, Madrid, Marriage, Marshal Bernadotte, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Murat, Minister of Foreign Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moldavia, Napoleon, Napoleon III, Negotiations, Nompère de Champagny, Normandy, Ottoman Empire, Paris, Partition, Police, Prince, Prince of Peace, Prince-Primat, Prussia, Russia, Saint-Aignan, Spain, Sweden, Talleyrand, Tolstoy, Treaty, Tsar Alexander, Valençay, Wallachia

• Doctor Wilhelm Meier and Baden’s war efforts during the Russian campaign …

  

  This excerpt represents one complete chapter of Meier’s recollections. Relations between France and the rest of Europe, with Russia in particular – Causes and preparations for war Through the Peace of Vienna of 1809 and its consequences, the family bond established with the Imperial House of Austria, Napoleon had reached the summit of his fortune…

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  July 20, 2023

  1812 Campaign, French-Allied forces, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs

  1812, Accomodation, Army of Moldavia, Austria, Baden, Battle of Smolensk, Battle of the Berezina, Bivouac, Borodino, Burning of Moscow, Confederation of the Rhine, Continental System, Cossacks, Courland, Daily life, Danzig, Diplomacy, Doctor, Drissa, Duna, Dysentery, Elbing, Emperor, Fatigue, Frankfurt, Gdansk, General Chichagov, General Wintzingerode, General Wittgenstein, Germany, Hospital, Illness, Imprisonment, Jews, Königsberg, Kovno, Kremlin, Lancers, Looting, Mainz, Marienburg, Marshal Bernadotte, Marshal Murat, Marshal Victor, Moscow, Mozhaysk, Napoleon, Negotiations, Niemen, Occupation, Oder, Officer, Orsha, Ostrovno, Ottoman Empire, Paris, Pillage, Podolia, Poland, Pommerania, Prisoner of war, Prussia, Rearguard, Russia, Schwarzenberg, Scorched earth, Smolensk, St Petersburg, Stettin, Stralsund, Supplies, Sweden, Tilsit, Tsar Alexander, Vermin, Vienna, Vilna, Vistula, Vitebsk, Warsaw

• Colonel Raymond Guiraud’s war journal (IV) …

  

  8 April 1809. After a two-day rest at Bayonne, I left for Paris and prepared to join the (Imperial) Guard in Germany … We travelled in peasant carts which were drawn fairly smoothly by requisition horses … We often encountered long columns of Austrian prisoners, who were merrily making their way to France. This was…

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  June 27, 2023

  1809 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Artillery, Battle, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer

  Antwerp, Appointment, Armistice, Austria, Battle of Abensberg, Battle of Aspern-Essling, Battle of Eckmühl, Battle of Regensburg, Bayonne, Beveland, Bridge, Burgos, Colonel, Daily life, Danube, Emperor, Eugène de Beauharnais, Flushing, General Bertrand, General Chasseloup, General Dejean, General Dorsenne, General Drouet d'Erlon, General Marescot, Germany, Injuries, Italy, Kingdom of Holland, Landshut, Lobau, Marshal Bernadotte, Marshal Bessières, Marshal Davout, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Masséna, Money, Napoleon, Paris, Pontoon, Prince of Lichtenstein, Retreat, River, Russia, Scheldt, Soisy-sous-Étiolles, Spain, Teugen-Hausen, Transport, Vienna, Znaïm

• Colonel Raymond Guiraud’s war journal (I) …

  

  Introduction Raymond Marc Antoine Guiraud, the author of the memoirs from which we are publishing extracts, was born at Limoux, a small town in Languedoc, on 20 January 1780. The Guiraud family were cloth merchants whose fortunes had improved at the same time as factories, which were flourishing in the region, had expanded their trade.…

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  June 13, 2023

  1807 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Engineers, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer

  Accomodation, Allenstein, Battle of Eylau, Bivouac, Bridge, Cantonments, Chasseur à Cheval de la Garde Impériale, Colonel, Cuirassier, Daily life, Emperor, General Bennigsen, General Caulaincourt (Master of Horse), General d'Hautpoul, General Le Blond de Saint-Hilaire, General Savary, Grenadiers à Cheval, Imperial Guard, Journal, Lübeck, Marshal Augereau, Marshal Bernadotte, Marshal Bessières, Marshal Davout, Marshal Lannes, Marshal Murat, Marshal Ney, Marshal Soult, Napoleon, Poland, Prussia, Russia, Thorn, Vistula, Warsaw