Tag: Marshal Marmont

• 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…

  jdnjdn92

  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

• 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…

  jdnjdn92

  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

• Guard Grenadier Philippe Ballut at Lützen and Bautzen, 1813 …

  

  In the evening, with the 2nd Grenadier Regiment occupying the ground on a plateau, the soldiers sighted the town of Lützen, with its round bell tower and a tall belfry tower dominating the large tile roofed buildings. The French cavalry had already entered the town to capture a few stragglers. It was known that Blücher…

  jdnjdn92

  April 8, 2024

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

  Accomodation, Aide-de-camp, Ambulance, Austria, Baden, Baggage, Battle of Bautzen, Battle of Lützen, Bautzen, Bischofswerda, Bivouac, Blücher, Brandy, Bread, Captain, Conscript, Cossacks, Crime, Daily life, Dresden, Elbe, Elster, Emperor, Espionage, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, Görlitz, General Bertrand, General Bonnet, General Brenier, General Charpentier, General Compans, General Gérard, General Kirgener, General Marchand, General Morand, General Ricard, General Roguet, General Souham, General Wittgenstein, Grand Marshal Duroc, Grenadiers, Hessians, Hunger, Hussars, Imperial Guard, Kaya, Lancers, Lützen, Leipzig, Locals, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Macdonald, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Ney, Marshal Oudinot, Medical Officer, Money, Napoleon, Old Guard, Peasants, Pegau, Pillage, Poland, Prussia, Quartermaster, Reconnaissance, Retreat, River, Russia, Saxony, Sergeant-major, Silesia, Spree, Supplies, Te Deum, Theft, Transport, Tsar Alexander, Weisig, Weissenfels, Woods, Young Guard

• Some notes of a grenadier of the Imperial Guard, 1813 …

  

  A couple of passages of a journal kept by Philippe Ballut, a soldier serving in the 2nd Grenadier Regiment of the Guard, related to the early stages of the 1813 Campaign … Thursday, 29 April. – The Old Guard arrived at Naumburg before noon and we lit our fires at the foot of the tower,…

  jdnjdn92

  January 29, 2024

  1813 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Engineers, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Memoirs, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Alsace, Billet, Bivouac, Chasseur à Cheval de la Garde Impériale, Colonel, Conscript, Corporal, Cossacks, Daily life, Dresden, Emperor, Equipment, Erfurt, Espionage, Fatigue, General Berthezène, General Souham, Grand Marshal Duroc, Grenadiers, Hussars, Imperial Guard, Jena, Leipzig, Locals, Mamelukes, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Bessières, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Ney, Napoleon, Naumburg, Old Guard, Paris, Peace, Pillage, Prussia, Rain, Russia, Saale, Sappers, Saxony, Tsar Alexander, Weimar, Weissenfels, Young Guard

• 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…

  jdnjdn92

  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

• A perspective from the French Imperial household on the battle of Bautzen, 1813 …

  

  The following extract is drawn from the excellent recollections of treasurer Guillaume Peyrusse (1776-1860) … 20 May (1813). – The entire (Imperial) headquarters was on its feet very early. One staff officer succeeded another. The corps of the dukes of Reggio (Oudinot), Taranto (Macdonald), Ragusa (Marmont) and General Bertrand made their arrangements to cross the…

  jdnjdn92

  August 15, 2023

  1813 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, French-Allied forces, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer

  Ambulance, Battle of Bautzen, Bautzen, Bivouac, Cuirassier, Daily life, Dresden, Emperor, France, General Bertrand, General Bruyère, General Latour-Maubourg, Grand Marshal Duroc, Headquarters, Household, Imperial Guard, Injuries, Italy, Looting, Marshal Macdonald, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Ney, Marshal Oudinot, Napoleon, Pillage, Prussia, Red Lancers, Redoubts, Reichenbach, Russia, Saxony, Spree, Supplies, Treasurer, Wurschen

• 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…

  jdnjdn92

  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

• More Konstantin Bulgakov’s 1814 letters from France …

  

  In these letters, Konstantin Bulgakov recounts to his brother the impressions of his stay in Paris during its occupation. Paris, 31 March 1814. It would take a hundred hands to describe what I saw, my very good friend, and a hundred eyes to see everything there was to see. We entered Paris today after defeating…

  jdnjdn92

  June 12, 2023

  1814 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Allied (Coalition) forces, Anecdotes, General staff, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer

  Accomodation, British, Châteaubriand, Clothing, Daily life, Emperor, First Restauration, Grants, King Louis XVIII, Marshal Marmont, Money, Napoleon, Paris, Russia, St Petersburg, Tsar Alexander, Voronzov

• Konstantin Bulgakov’s 1814 letters from France …

  

  In the course of the campaign for France in 1814, Konstantin Bulgakov (1782-1835), attached to the Russian Imperial headquarters (whilst he also was a diplomat, privy councillor and postal administrator), maintained correspondence with his brother, Alexander. His letters, written in French, were published in the Roussky Arkhiv (1904, II and III); they are not lacking…

  jdnjdn92

  June 10, 2023

  1814 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Allied (Coalition) forces, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer

  Accomodation, Arcis, Austria, Bar-sur-Aube, Barclay de Tolly, Basel, Battle of Fère-Champenoise, Bavaria, Blücher, Brienne, Bubna, Colloredo, Cossacks, Dijon, Emperor, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, France, General Chernyshyov, General Moreau, General Pacthod, General Platov, General Vandamme, General Yorck, Grants, Headquarters, Imperial Guard, Langres, Madame de Staël, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Mortier, Moral, Nancy, Napoleon, Neufchâteau, Pas-de-Calais, Peasants, Postal service, Poverty, Pozzo di Borgo, Promotion, Provisioning, Prussia, Russia, Russian Imperial Guard, Saint-Dizier, Scherbatov, Schwarzenberg, Soissons, Spain, Supplies, Troyes, Tsar Alexander, Vesoul, Württemberg

• The battle of Znaim (1809) witnessed by an infantry officer …

  

  A vivid account on an often overlooked battle of the 1809 Campaign. Marc Desboeufs was born in 1782 in Elne (French department of the Pyrénées-Orientales). He joined the army at the age of 18, was a corporal under Masséna in Italy, then a sergeant in Dalmatia, and finally an officer at Wagram. He subsequently served…

  jdnjdn92

  May 11, 2023

  1809 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Infantry, Memoirs, Officer, Soldier

  Archduke Charles, Armistice, Austria, Batteries, Battle of Wagram, Battle of Znaim, Bavaria, Bivouac, Captain, Clothing, Daily life, Emperor, Fatigue, Flemish, General Wrede, Injuries, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Masséna, Mud, Napoleon, Prince of Lichtenstein, Skirmishers, Voltigeurs, Znaïm