Tag: Marshal Mortier

• 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

• 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

• 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…

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  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

• An Imperial Guard commander and the 1813 Campaign (III) …

  

  … We camped on the plain in close columns by division and by battalion mass. We were standing in mud and water up to half our legs, and I could never understand what was the reason for choosing such an uncomfortable and unhealthy position. On 22 August 1813 we remained in the same order. A…

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  May 10, 2023

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

  Batteries, Battle of Lützen, Bivouac, Clothing, Colonel, Daily life, Dresden, Elbe, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, Görlitz, General de Rottembourg, General Paillard, Gross-Garten, Hospital, Illness, Injuries, Marshal Mortier, Mud, Old Guard, Pirna, Prussia, Redoubts, Regiment of Tirailleurs, Russia, Skirmishers, Vermin, Water

• 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

• A letter of a Grenadier à Cheval, September 1807 …

  

  Our officer, who enrolled in the vélites of the Grenadiers in 1806, became a second lieutenant in 1809. Lego was later assigned to the 1st Cuirassiers Regiment. He was appointed lieutenant in 1811. He was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1812. He became aide-de-camp to General Lefebvre in October 1812. He subsequently joined the…

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  April 14, 2023

  1807 Campaign, Cavalry, Imperial Guard, Letters – Correspondence

  Accomodation, Amiens, Cuirassier, Daily life, Fatigue, Germany, Grenadiers à Cheval, Hanover, Illness, Marshal Mortier, Rape

• Bessières, the Imperial Guard and the aftermath of 1812 …

  

  The first document meant for the French emperor states Bessières’ concerns and criticism concerning Napoleon’s elites; not as much the cavalry forces he led, but mostly the infantry which he deemed to be reformed in its entirety. The second letter is related to the marshal’s demand to return to France, and is more indulgent compared…

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  February 10, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Cavalry, General staff, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Reports, Soldier

  Cadre, Discipline, Dragoons of the Guard, Emperor, Eugène de Beauharnais, Fatigue, General Guyot, General Saint-Sulpice, Insubordination, Marshal Bessières, Marshal Mortier, Moral, Moscow, Napoleon, Old Guard, Posen, Regiment of Tirailleurs, Retreat, Russia, Sergeant, Voltigeurs

• A letter from Marshal Berthier to Marshal Ney, 1812 …

  

  Berthier recounts the battle of Maloyaroslavets in this letter, and the prince announces to Ney that the Emperor decided to carry out the retreat via Mozhaysk and Vyazma. The Duke of Elchingen will thus have to proceed to Vereya with all the parks which are located at Borovsk, and then move from Vereya to Mozhaysk.…

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  November 3, 2022

  1812 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Reports

  Battle of Maloyaroslavets, Bivouac, Borovsk, Cossacks, Eugène de Beauharnais, General Morand, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Davout, Marshal Mortier, Marshal Ney, Marshal Poniatowski, Mozhaysk, Retreat, Russia, Vyazma

• Fourrier Soleil on the battle of Ocaña …

  

  Jean-Claude Soleil, conscript of the year 1806 in the 88th Line Regiment, served from Poland to Spain and eventually Waterloo. It is one of many underrated French soldier’s accounts, free to consult. Highly recommended! … We were soon informed that several divisions of Spanish troops had assembled and were planning to attack us in the…

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  August 3, 2022

  Battle, French-Allied forces, Infantry, Marshals, Memoirs, Peninsular War, Soldier

  Aranjuez, Battle of Ocaña, Fourrier, Marshal Mortier, Marshal Victor, Spain, Talavera, Toledo

• A report on the battle of Fère-Champenoise, March 1814 …

  

  Monseigneur, General of Division Count Pacthod not having deemed it appropriate to furnish Your Excellency with a report on the affair of Fère-Champenoise of the past 25th of March, an affair in which his division was captured and made prisoner of war, I cannot refrain from doing so myself, in order to render to the…

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  June 28, 2022

  1814 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Marshals, Reports

  Battle of Fère-Champenoise, General Delort, General Pacthod, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Mortier