Tag: Misery

• 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

• Three Letters from J. J. Delvau, Soldier of the Imperial Guard … (1812)

  

  IMPERIAL GUARDGrenadiers Tirailleurs6th Regiment – 1st Battalion4th Company At Courbevoie, 24 March 1812. My dear father and mother, brothers and sisters, I want you to know that we are leaving for Magdeburg in Germany to join the regiment, which arrived there not long ago. However I do not think we will pass by your side.…

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  March 22, 2024

  1812 Campaign, Anecdotes, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Soldier

  1812, Accomodation, Bavaria, Belgium, Bivouac, Champagne, Clothing, Courbevoie, Daily life, Dinant, Egypt, Emperor, Equipment, Family, Foodstuffs, France, Germany, Grenadier-Tirailleurs, Health, Imperial Guard, Indies, Lorraine, Magdeburg, Mainz, Meuse, Misery, Money, Napoleon, Paris, Poland, Posen, Rumors, Russia, Saint Avold, Sambre, Saxony, Silesia, Supplies, Tsar Alexander

• Correspondence from Charleroi conscripts under Napoleon (II) …

  

  Letters from Pierre-Joseph Guilbert to his father Pierre-Joseph Guilbert was born in Jumet on 18 March 1781. He was the son of Charles and Marie Perony. A conscript of the Year IX (1800), he became a fusilier in the 5th Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 94th Line Infantry Regiment, 3rd Division of the…

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  February 26, 2024

  1805 Campaign, 1806 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Generals, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Peninsular War, Soldier

  Accomodation, Armistice, Austria, Baden, Battle of Austerlitz, Bavaria, Belgian, Belgium, Billet, Bivouac, Black Forest, Brigadier, British, Castile, Certificate, Charleroi, Conscript, Conscription, Cuirassier, Daily life, Desertion, Draft evasion, Dragoons, Duke of Wellington, Emperor Francis of Austria, Equipment, Family, Fürth, Fleurus, France, Freiburg im Breisgau, Fusiliers, Galicia (Spain), General Auguste de Caulaincourt, Germany, Hanover, Injuries, Joseph Bonaparte, Jumet, King Charles IV of Spain, Legion of Honour, Madrid, Marshal Jourdan, Marshal Murat, Merbes-le-Château, Misery, Mounted Carabiniers, Poland, Portugal, Prisoner of war, Prussia, Quartermaster, Religion, Rhine, Royal Guard, Russia, Saxony, Spain, Strasbourg, Tagus, Talavera, Train, Tsar Alexander, Württemberg, Weaponsmith

• Letters of Désiré Trefcon, quartermaster in the 22nd Dragoons – 1806-1807

  

  Désiré Trefcon was conscripted in Year VII and initially served with his brothers Pierre-Antoine and Toussaint-Jean in the 15th Demi-Brigade. Due to his frail health and poor tolerance of arduous stages, he was almost constantly assigned to the depot companies. He had therefore remained in Bitche (Moselle Department) during the brilliant campaign of 1800. Eager…

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  January 11, 2024

  1806 Campaign, 1807 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer

  Battle of Austerlitz, Battle of Friedland, Berlin, Bitche, Bivouac, Captain, Daily life, Depot, Dragoons, Emperor, Family, Fatigue, General Carrié, Illness, Königsberg, Legion of Honour, Liège, Lieutenant, Line infantry, Locals, Marshal Grouchy, Marshal Murat, Misery, Mounts, Napoleon, NCO, Niemen, Ostrolenka, Paris, Poland, Prussia, Quartermaster, Rhine, Russia, Tilsit, Vanguard, Vistula, Warsaw

• Correspondence of grognard Jean-Henry Rattier (IV) …

  

  Bayonne, 15 March 1812. We arrived here the day before yesterday, and we are leaving tomorrow for Paris, where we will arrive on 16 April. I would have obtained permission to go to Ardèche, but I had to be in the capital by 15 April, which prevented me from obtaining it. I could only have…

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  December 19, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Anecdotes, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Medicine – Surgery, Officer, Peninsular War, Soldier

  1812, Accomodation, Avignon, Baggage, Bavaria, Bayonne, Berlin, Billet, Bivouac, Brandy, Cadre, Cahors, Captain, Captivity, Clothing, Conscription, Corporal, Cossacks, Cuirassier, Daily life, Debts, Doctor, Duna, Emperor, Equipment, Family, Foodstuffs, France, General Curial, General Rampon, Germany, Government, Grants, Heat, Homesick, Hunger, Injuries, Inspection, Kaiserslautern, Krasnoi, Lieutenant, Lieutenant Colonel, Locals, Mainz, Military School, Misery, Money, Mounts, Napoleon, Paris, Pay, Peace, Peninsular War, Plunder, Poland, Posen, Possessions, Prisoner of war, Provisioning, Prussia, Ruin, Russia, Sarrelouis, Scorched earth, Siberia, Smolensk, Stragglers, Supplies, Surgeon, Swiss, Thirst, Toulouse, Training, Transport, Vilna