Tag: Promotion

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

  

  Valladolid, 5 December 1809. – I only have time to send you an embrace and inform you that I am in good health. We have arrived at Valladolid, where we will stay with General Kellerman until further notice. We engaged in a number of affairs which I am sure you will be able to find…

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  May 6, 2024

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

  Abrantes, Accomodation, Administration, Alba de Tormes, Alcanizas, Alenquer, Almeida, Ammunition, Army of Portugal, Avila, Battle of Bussaco, Billet, Bivouac, Brigands, British, Burgos, Cadre, Captain, Coimbra, Daily life, Depot, Desertion, Dragoons, Duke of Wellington, Equipment, Extremadura, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, Fortifications, France, General Brenier, General Kellerman, General Montbrun, Guerilla, Lancers, Leiria, Lieutenant, Limoges, Lisbon, Madrid, Marshal Masséna, Marshal Ney, Ourém, Outpost, Placencia, Pombal, Portugal, Prisoner of war, Promotion, Punhete, Rain, Rearguard, Reconnaissance, Redinha, Retirement, Retreat, River, Rodrigo, Salamanca, Spain, Supplies, Tagus, Valladolid, Viseu, Zamora, Zêzere

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

  

  In the meantime, Bruno d’Ast’s family was delighted to receive the news that he had been promoted to the Legion of Honour: they knew that this was the award that their son sought above all else, and we will see in one of the following letters the emotion with which he received this distinction, the…

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  April 22, 2024

  1813 Campaign, 1814 Campaign, 1815 Campaign, Battle, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Marshals, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Aide-de-camp, Auch, Battle of Dresden, Battle of Lützen, Battle of Leipzig, Battle of Waterloo, Billet, Bivouac, Cadre, Captain, Caroline Bonaparte, Chasseur, Corporal, Daily life, Dresden, Duke of Wellington, Emperor, Family, Folkwitz, Fontainebleau, General Lanusse, General Ricard, Gers, Glogau, Grants, Imperial Guard, Injuries, King Louis XVIII, Lützen, Legion of Honour, Light Infantry, Mainz, Marriage, Marshal Murat, Marshal Pérignon, Montech, Moscow, Naples, Napoleon, NCO, Neuf-Brisach, Old Guard, Orléans, Paris, Promotion, Prussia, Retirement, Rhine, Sergeant-major, Silesia, Steinau, Tirailleurs, Toulouse, Voltigeurs, Young Guard

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

  

  Moscow, 20 September 1812. My dear father, you must have received my letter from Smolensk by now. I hope that it finds you in as good health as I am at the moment, despite the fatigue and hardship we had to endure before arriving in this city. I spoke to you in my last letter…

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  April 3, 2024

  1812 Campaign, 1813 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer, Soldier

  1812, Aachen, Accomodation, Aide-de-camp, Aix la-Chapelle, Appointment, Battle of Bautzen, Battle of Borodino, Battle of Lützen, Billet, Bivouac, Borodino, Breslau, Burning of Moscow, Captain, Captivity, Cold, Conscription, Daily life, Emperor, Family, Fatigue, General Lanusse, General Ricard, General Roguet, Grenade, Haute-Garonne, Imperial Guard, Königsberg, Legion of Honour, Leipzig, Liegnitz, Line infantry, Lintz, Loan, Mainz, Major, Marriage, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Ney, Marshal Pérignon, Money, Moscow, Moskva, Mounts, Mozhaysk, Naples, Napoleon, Neumark, Oder, Paris, Périgord, Périgueux, Pillage, Prisoner of war, Promotion, Prussia, Russia, Supplies, Tirailleurs, Toulouse, Vilna, Voltigeurs, Wine, Winter

• 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

• Dedicated to the Imperial Cause – Letters of the Dandalle Family (IV) …

  

  Cantonment in Germany – 1810-1811 In February 1810, the regiment left Upper Austria and arrived at Magdeburg on 1 March. It did not return to France, but remained in Germany to ensure public order and to be ready to intervene if necessary to the south against Austria, to the north to enforce the Continental Blockade,…

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  February 22, 2024

  Anecdotes, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Austria, Battalion Commander, Billet, Bivouac, Bordeaux, Cantonments, Certificate, Chasseur, Clothing, Colonel, Conscript, Continental System, Convoy, Custrin, Daily life, Depot, Equipment, Erfurt, Escort, Family, France, Frankfurt, Garrison, Germany, Hamburg, Hanau, Harburg, Huningue, Illness, Inspection, Küstrin, Kinsig, Legion of Honour, Leisure, Light Infantry, Locals, Magdeburg, Mainz, Major, Market, Medical Officer, Money, Oder, Pay, Paymaster, Portugal, Postal service, Promotion, Retirement, Rhine, Russia, Sergeant, Spain, Supplies, Theft, Transport, Warsaw

• A dragoon under Marshal Murat – Letters of the 1806-1807 Campaigns (III)

  

  The troops were beginning to grow, if not discouraged, at least weary of being beset day and night by Cossacks. Therefore the cavalry, charged with chasing down this troublesome and devious enemy, hardly rested. Until 15 March, Murat covered the line of the outposts: Luiduwo, near Gigenburg, 17 March 1807. Looking at the date of…

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  February 6, 2024

  1806 Campaign, 1807 Campaign, Battle, Cavalry, Letters – Correspondence, Officer

  Accomodation, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Friedland, Billet, Bivouac, Chasseur, Cold, Colonel, Cossacks, Daily life, Depot, Dragoons, Family, General Bourcier, General Louis de Bouillé, General Sébastiani, Grants, Hunger, Hussars, King Louis XVIII, Legion of Honour, Locals, Marshal Grouchy, Marshal Lannes, Marshal Murat, Peninsular War, Promotion, Prussia, Russia, Second Lieutenant, Squadron Commander, Tilsit, Tsar Alexander, Warsaw

• Grouchy’s service in Italy, May 1809 …

  

  The Austrian Archduke John had made the mistake, after the battle of Sacile, of not vigorously pursuing the army of the Viceroy Eugène de Beauharnais and allowing the prince time to recover. After spending eight days on the Livenza, without undertaking anything, the Austrian commander positioned himself around Conegliano, quartering his troops as though the…

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  February 1, 2024

  1809 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Allied (Coalition) forces, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Engineers, French-Allied forces, General staff, Generals, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer, Reports

  Accomodation, Aide-de-camp, Archduke John, Army of Italy, Austria, Battle of Sacile, Billet, Bivouac, Caldiero, Campo Formio, Carniola, Chasseur à Cheval, Cividale, Colonel, Conegliano, Crews, Dragoons, Eugène de Beauharnais, Ford, Gemona, General Baraguey d'Hilliers, General Broussier, General Durutte, General Grenier, General Sahuc, Grants, Hungary, Hussars, Italy, Legion of Honour, Light Cavalry, Livenza, Marshal Grouchy, Marshal Macdonald, Outpost, Palmanova, Piave, Picket, Promotion, River, Supplies, Tagliamento, Udine, Valvasone

• Extracts from the livre d’ordre of the 12th Light Infantry Regiment during the Peninsular War …

  

  Order of 18 March 1811 The regiment is hereby informed that His Excellency Marshal Soult has achieved the most brilliant success during his expedition following the capture of Olivera, where he took 4,500 prisoners. He battled two Spanish and Portuguese divisions whose positions covered the city of Badagos [sic, Badajoz]. These two divisions were defeated,…

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  January 30, 2024

  Battle, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer, Peninsular War, Reports

  Accomodation, Administration, Army of Portugal, Badajoz, Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro, Billet, Bivouac, British, Captain, Carabiniers, Cartridges, Chasseur, Colonel, Cornet, Corporal, Cuidad Rodrigo, Daily life, Death penalty, Desertion, Discharge, Discipline, Drill, Equipment, Fatigue, Fourrier, General Reynaud, Grants, Headquarters, Inspection, Insubordination, Insurgency, Light Infantry, Marshal Masséna, Marshal Soult, Misconduct, Moral, Murder, Musician, Officer, Olivera, Orders, Outpost, Parades, Peninsular War, Portugal, Portuguese, Promotion, Retirement, Review, Roll call, Sergeant, Sergeant-major, Siege, Spain, Training, Trumpeter, Villagarcia, Voltigeurs

• Dedicated to the Imperial Cause – Letters of the Dandalle Family (III) …

  

  The Austrian Campaign of 1809 The Erfurt conference had, at least in appearance, strengthened the friendly relations between Napoleon and the Tsar. The two emperors divided Europe between themselves. Napoleon sought to consolidate the Russian alliance in order to have a free hand to re-establish the situation in Spain, where the capitulations of Bailén (22…

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  January 15, 2024

  1809 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Marshals, Officer, Soldier

  Accident, Accomodation, Archduke Charles, Augsburg, Austria, Battle of Aspern-Essling, Battle of Bailén, Battle of Eckmühl, Battle of Wagram, Bavaria, Brunswick, Certificate, Colonel, Convention of Cintra, Daily life, Danube, Depot, Duke of Brunswick, Ebersdorf, Emperor, Emperor Francis of Austria, Entrenchments, Equipment, Erfurt, Family, Garrison, General Dupont, General Junot, Germany, Grants, Halberstadt, Hospital, Huningue, Injuries, Inspection, Insurgency, Italy, Landshut, Legion of Honour, Light Infantry, Line infantry, Lobau, Marshal Davout, Marshal Masséna, Moral, Murder, Napoleon, Peace, Peninsular War, Poland, Portugal, Pressburg, Promotion, Ratisbonne, Regensburg, Review, Saxony, Schönbrunn, Second Lieutenant, Skirmishers, Spain, Tsar Alexander, Turkey, Tyrol, Vienna

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

  

  Puente la Reina, 13 November 1810. The regiments of our division are gathering at this moment to move from Navarre to Castile. Our (supply) wagons leave at noon for Pamplona, in order to follow the main road to Vitoria, as well as the artillery. The troops will travel via the secondary roads; the main roads…

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  December 5, 2023

  Anecdotes, Artillery, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer, Peninsular War, Police – Gendarmerie

  Accomodation, Adjudant Major, Asturias, Bayonne, Benavente, Billet, Bread, Brigands, Cadre, Castile, Chasseur, Chief of Staff, Ciudad Rodrigo, Convoy, Daily life, Equipment, Escort, Fatigue, Fodder, Foodstuffs, Formation, France, Garrison, General Bonnet, General Dorsenne, General Rampon, Grants, Homesick, Illness, Imperial Guard, Imprisonment, Insubordination, Insurgency, Leon, Lieutenant Colonel, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Bessières, Money, Mounts, Navarre, NCO, Old Guard, Pamplona, Peninsular War, Pillage, Portugal, Promotion, Puente la Reina, Rape, Reforms, Salamanca, Service, Soria, Spain, Supplies, Theft, Toro, Valladolid, Vitoria, Voltigeurs, Zamora