Tag: Medical Officer

• 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…

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  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

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

  

  Cantonment in Germany – 1810-1811 In February 1810, the regiment left Upper Austria and arrived at Magdeburg on 1 March. It did not return to France, but remained in Germany to ensure public order and to be ready to intervene if necessary to the south against Austria, to the north to enforce the Continental Blockade,…

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  February 22, 2024

  Anecdotes, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Austria, Battalion Commander, Billet, Bivouac, Bordeaux, Cantonments, Certificate, Chasseur, Clothing, Colonel, Conscript, Continental System, Convoy, Custrin, Daily life, Depot, Equipment, Erfurt, Escort, Family, France, Frankfurt, Garrison, Germany, Hamburg, Hanau, Harburg, Huningue, Illness, Inspection, Küstrin, Kinsig, Legion of Honour, Leisure, Light Infantry, Locals, Magdeburg, Mainz, Major, Market, Medical Officer, Money, Oder, Pay, Paymaster, Portugal, Postal service, Promotion, Retirement, Rhine, Russia, Sergeant, Spain, Supplies, Theft, Transport, Warsaw

• 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

• The first years of service of a Swiss surgeon, Italy & Spain (1808-1809)

  

  The following paragraphs are derived from the notebooks of Antoine Kaempfen, a native from Switzerland (Canton of Valais) who would pursue a career in the medical services of the French army. He also wrote recollections on the 1812 campaign in Russia (read an excerpt here). … The arrival of my brevet, by which I was…

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  October 23, 2023

  Anecdotes, French-Allied forces, General staff, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer, Peninsular War, Police – Gendarmerie, Soldier

  Accomodation, Adjudant Major, Administration, Amputation, Battalion Commander, Billet, Bivouac, Blockade, Brigands, Captain, Cowardice, Daily life, Debts, Depot, Discharge, Emperor, Family, Figueras, Gambling, General Reille, Genoa, Girona, Heat, Hospital, Illness, Injuries, Insurgency, Major, Marseille, Medical Officer, Money, Napoleon, Offences, Officer, Outpost, Pay, Peasants, Perpignan, Pyrenees, Religion, Retirement, Romance, Service, Siege, Spain, Supplies, Surgeon, Swiss, Treasurer

• The broken eagle, at the battle of Eylau (II) …

  

  Grande ArméeVII Corps1st Division14th Line Regiment Report on the particulars of the 14th Line Infantry Regiment, at the battle of Eylau, 8 February 1807. The action began with a lively cannonade between the enemy artillery and that of His Imperial and Royal Majesty, positioned to the right of the church of Eylau. The 14th Regiment…

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  August 4, 2023

  1807 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Officer, Reports, Soldier

  Battalion Commander, Battle of Eylau, Bromberg, Captain, Captivity, Colonel, Complaint, Depot, Flag, General Desjardins, Imperial Guard, Imprisonment, Injuries, Königsberg, Lancers, Lieutenant, Marshal Berthier, Medical Officer, Minister of War, Napoleon, Prisoner of war, Prussia, Rosenau, Sergeant, Sergeant-major, Testimony