Tag: Pegau
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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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Cuirassier officer Jean de Gouttes and his 1813 correspondence …
These documents relate our cavalry officer’s thoughts and experiences during the 1813 Campaign. De Gouttes served in the 11th Cuirassier Regiment … Kemberg (near Wittenberg), 19 March 1813. I left Braunschweig (Brunswick), where the cavalry was being reorganised, on 25 February with a company which I was honoured to be given command of, to join…
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Letters of an artillery officer, 1813 …
The following is an interesting letter written the day after the battle of Lützen by Nicolas Louis Planat de la Faye, meant for Honoré de Lariboisière (son of General Lariboisière). He also wrote to his wife on the same day. Pegau, 4 May 1813. My dear Honoré, We have just won the most extraordinary battle…