Tag: Prince of Lichtenstein

• A dragoon’s 1805 journal entries …

  

  Here we have a chapter on the 1805 Campaign derived from journals kept by Etienne Fargeau Choderlos de Laclos, born on 1 May 1784 at La Rochelle (although certain documents state he originates from Mortagne la Vieille). He served in the 8th Regiment of Dragoons. On 24 Brumaire Year XIV, I entered Vienna via the…

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  October 9, 2023

  1805 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer, Soldier

  Archduke Charles, Austerlitz, Austria, Battle of Austerlitz, Bivouac, Brünn (Brno), Captain, Clothing, Daily life, Danube, Dragoons, Emperor, Fatigue, General Beaumont, General Klein, General Reille, General Sébastiani, Grants, Hussars, Imprisonment, Journal, Lieutenant, Loan, Marchegg, Marshal Oudinot, Money, Moravia, Napoleon, Prince of Lichtenstein, Prisoner of war, Raygern, Religion, Russia, Schönbrunn, Schöngrabern, Vienna, Wintzingerode

• Colonel Raymond Guiraud’s war journal (IV) …

  

  8 April 1809. After a two-day rest at Bayonne, I left for Paris and prepared to join the (Imperial) Guard in Germany … We travelled in peasant carts which were drawn fairly smoothly by requisition horses … We often encountered long columns of Austrian prisoners, who were merrily making their way to France. This was…

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  June 27, 2023

  1809 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Artillery, Battle, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer

  Antwerp, Appointment, Armistice, Austria, Battle of Abensberg, Battle of Aspern-Essling, Battle of Eckmühl, Battle of Regensburg, Bayonne, Beveland, Bridge, Burgos, Colonel, Daily life, Danube, Emperor, Eugène de Beauharnais, Flushing, General Bertrand, General Chasseloup, General Dejean, General Dorsenne, General Drouet d'Erlon, General Marescot, Germany, Injuries, Italy, Kingdom of Holland, Landshut, Lobau, Marshal Bernadotte, Marshal Bessières, Marshal Davout, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Masséna, Money, Napoleon, Paris, Pontoon, Prince of Lichtenstein, Retreat, River, Russia, Scheldt, Soisy-sous-Étiolles, Spain, Teugen-Hausen, Transport, Vienna, Znaïm

• The battle of Znaim (1809) witnessed by an infantry officer …

  

  A vivid account on an often overlooked battle of the 1809 Campaign. Marc Desboeufs was born in 1782 in Elne (French department of the Pyrénées-Orientales). He joined the army at the age of 18, was a corporal under Masséna in Italy, then a sergeant in Dalmatia, and finally an officer at Wagram. He subsequently served…

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  May 11, 2023

  1809 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Infantry, Memoirs, Officer, Soldier

  Archduke Charles, Armistice, Austria, Batteries, Battle of Wagram, Battle of Znaim, Bavaria, Bivouac, Captain, Clothing, Daily life, Emperor, Fatigue, Flemish, General Wrede, Injuries, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Masséna, Mud, Napoleon, Prince of Lichtenstein, Skirmishers, Voltigeurs, Znaïm