Tag: Mounted Carabiniers
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1813-14 letters from Cuirassier Brigadier Pilloy
The following letters are drawn from a voluminous register which also contains copies of the Emperor’s proclamations, accounts of our narrator’s travels and more or less unusual recipes. The author in question is Étienne-Nicolas Pilloy, born in Santeau, canton of Pithiviers (Loiret), a farmer by trade. Here are his service records: 13th Cuirassier Regiment. Entered…
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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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Two letters of a carabinier, 1808-1809 …
Étienne Mouraille was born on 7 April 1787 in Uchaud, district of Vauvert, arrondissement of Nîmes, Department of Gard. He was a (mounted) carabinier serving in the 1st Regiment. He wrote the following letters to his family: Berlin, 24 November 1808. My dear mother, I have the honour of answering your letter dated 4 August,…
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Entering Moscow, September 1812 …
Adrien de Mailly was a non-commissioned officer in the 2nd Regiment of Carabiniers … Some peasants and merchants were brought to the Emperor, who were pitied by the fear they displayed, believing that their throats were about to be slit. We then saw a Frenchman arrive, whom he questioned; I also spoke to him, and…