Tag: Palencia

• The experiences of Dragoon Auguste de Maupas in Spain and Portugal, 1808-1812 (I)

  

  Born on 5 September 1786 in Laon, Aisne, into a noble family originally from Berry, Auguste-Marie was the son of Jérôme Clément Agard, the Marquis of Maupas, and Marie-Madeleine de La Fons d’Happencourt. He married Geneviève-Stéphanie-Félicité-Cécile de Martiny on 2 January 1821. Maupas entered the École Militaire of Fontainebleau on 17 February 1805, and was…

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  May 2, 2024

  Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer, Peninsular War, Soldier

  Aide-de-camp, Aisne, Ambush, Ammunition, Astorga, Asturias, Avignon, Ballesteros, Bayonne, Benavente, Bordeaux, Brigands, Burgos, Castile, Colonel, Daily life, Discipline, Dragoons, Dresden, Duke of Angoulême, Equipment, Execution, Exile, Fontainebleau, France, Garrison, General Bonnet, General Ferrey, General Kellerman, General Marchand, General Thomières, Germany, Guns, Hesdin, Inspection, Insubordination, Insurgency, King Louis XVIII, La Romana, Labagneza, Laon, Leipzig, Leon, Line infantry, Mainz, Mancilla, Marquesito, Marshal Brune, Marshal Masséna, Marshal Ney, Marshal Suchet, Mayorga, Military School, Mounts, Murder, Napoleon, Oviedo, Palencia, Poland, Portugal, Prisoner of war, Review, Rhine, Saint-Dizier, Salamanca, Santander, Scotland, Second Lieutenant, Spain, St-Jean-de-Luz, Toro, Valencia, Valladolid, Villapando, Vitoria, Zamora

• The Military Life of Bruno d’Ast … (I)

  

  Dominique-Louis-Guillaume-Bruno d’Ast was born on 9 August 1790, in Brignemont. (1) He was the eldest son of Mr. Guillaume d’Ast and Madame Marie-Germaine-Sophie de Pérignon. (2) His godfather was Dominique Catherine de Pérignon, his uncle, an officer in the royal grenadiers in the Quercy Regiment, the future victor of Rosas and Figueras, ambassador of the…

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  March 19, 2024

  1812 Campaign, Letters – Correspondence, Marshals, Officer, Peninsular War, Soldier

  1812, Berlin, Brignemont, Burgos, Castile, Catalonia, Chasseur, Chasseur à Cheval, Clothing, Conscript, Corporal, Daily life, Danzig, Emperor, Family, Fontainebleau, Foodstuffs, Garrison, General Bellavene, Germany, Grants, Grenadiers, Haute-Garonne, Imperial Guard, Inspection, Insurgency, Joseph Bonaparte, Leon, Locals, Marienwerder, Marshal Pérignon, Marshal Victor, Military School, Minister of War, Naples, Napoleon, Palencia, Paris, Peninsular War, Portugal, Postal service, Promotion, Prussia, Review, Rioseco, Russia, Soria, Supplies, Tarazona, Tirailleurs, Toulouse, Uniforms, Vistula, Voltigeurs

• A selection of Peninsular War letters of the rank and file …

  

  Stamp: (illegible number), FRENCH ARMY IN SPAIN. Mister Even, mayor of Beaufort, Department of Forests, Canton of Echternach, arrondissement of Bitbourg, via Paris. (Medina de) Rioseco, 24 August (1811). Dear father, Your long silence would certainly cause me to have doubts; only the filial love you have always fostered in me makes me think that…

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  August 29, 2023

  Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Officer, Peninsular War, Police – Gendarmerie, Soldier

  Aragon, Bastogne, Bayonne, Bread, Brigands, British, Burgos, Certificate, Clervaux, Cogorderos, Conscript, Conscription, Cuirassier, Daily life, Draft, Draft evasion, Foodstuffs, Gendarme, Gendarmerie, General Valletaux, Guerilla, Gunner, Illness, Imprisonment, Insurgency, Jaca, Leon, Lisbon, Luxembourg, Madrid, Marshal Bessières, Money, Moral, Oviedo, Palencia, Paris, Peasants, Peninsular War, Portugal, Prisoner of war, Pyrenees, Religion, Rioseco, Spain, Supplies, Tolosa, Training, Vitoria, Voltigeurs