Tag: Second Lieutenant

• 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

• Recollections on the battle of Salamanca, 1812 …

  

  Alphonse d’Hautpoul was born at Versailles on 4 January 1789. He was a cousin of the cavalry general of the same name, who lost his life at the battle at Eylau. Alphonse’s brother, Amand, served in the horse artillery of the Imperial Guard. Attending the Military School at Fontainebleau, Alphonse departed there as a second…

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  April 15, 2024

  Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Marshals, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer, Peninsular War

  1812, Accomodation, Arapiles, Army of Portugal, Aspecia, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Friedland, Battle of Salamanca, British, Captain, Captivity, Clothing, Colonel, Daily life, Doctor, Duke of Wellington, Eagle, England, Fever, Fontainebleau, Gangrene, General Bonnet, General Clauzel, General Curto, General d'Hautpoul, General Ferey, General Foy, General Hill, General Maucune, General Taupin, General Thomières, Guerilla, Hanover, Health, Heat, Horse Artillery, Hospital, Illness, Imprisonment, Injuries, Insurgency, Italy, Légion du Midi, Line infantry, Manoeuvres, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Ney, Military School, Misery, Peninsular War, Poland, Porto, Portugal, Prussia, Religion, Salamanca, Scottish, Second Lieutenant, Sergeant, Skirmishers, Spain, Square, Surgeon, Tormes, Transport, Treatment, Vermin, Versailles

• Captain Puffeney’s recollections of the 1806-1807 Campaigns …

  

  The son of humble farmers from the Franche-Comté region, Captain Pierre-François Puffeney was born in Les Planches, near Arbois, on 5 December 1772. He was not yet twenty when he enlisted as a volunteer in the 2nd Battalion of the Jura, to fly, as it was then called, to the defence of the Fatherland. A…

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  April 4, 2024

  1806 Campaign, 1807 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Arbois, Baggage, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Friedland, Battle of Ostrołęka, Billet, Bivouac, Captain, Chief of Staff, Contusion, Corporal, Czarnowo, Daily life, Danzig, Decorations, Discipline, Duchy, Emperor, Erlangen, Eylau, Family, Fatigue, France, Franche-Comté, General Bennigsen, General Campana, General Essen, General Gazan, General Reille, General Savary, Glogau, Grenadiers, Grodno, Host, Hussars, Injuries, Jura, Königsberg, Legion of Honour, Lieutenant, Light Infantry, Line infantry, Lissa, Locals, Marshal Davout, Marshal Lannes, Marshal Masséna, Marshal Oudinot, Marshal Suchet, Mittellangdorff, Mud, Napoleon, Ostrolenka, Poland, Pregel, Prussia, Pultusk, Retreat, Rhine, River, Russia, Second Lieutenant, Sergeant-major, Siege of Danzig (1807), Silesia, Spain, Supplies, Tilsit, Town, Transport, Tsar Alexander, Village, Warsaw, Wartenberg, Winter, Woods

• 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

• 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 an artillery officer during the Russian campaign …

  

  On 15 June 1810, young Delaval, the eldest son of a family living in the small town of Tournus in the Department of Saône-et-Loire, received an order to enter the School of Saint-Cyr on 20 July. After completing his studies at the military school on 2 April 1812 with the rank of lieutenant second class…

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  January 2, 2024

  1812 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Engineers, General staff, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer

  1812, Accomodation, Ammunition, Billet, Bivouac, Brandenburg, Bug, Captain, Clothing, Cold, Daily life, Danzig, Doctor, Dresden, Drill, Earthworks, Elbe, Emperor, Equipment, Family, Fever, Foodstuffs, Foot Artillery, Frankfurt, Fulda, Garrison, General Durutte, Germany, Grants, Grenoble, Illness, Jena, Legion of Honour, Liège, Lieutenant, Magdeburg, Medical Officer, Military School, Minden, Money, Mounts, Napoleon, Paris, Pay, Paymaster, Postal service, Prussia, Retreat, Russia, Saône-et-Loire, Saxony, Second Lieutenant, Smolensk, Spandau, St Petersburg, Stages, Supplies, Transport, Vistula, Warsaw, Wesel

• Some correspondence related to the campaign in Austria, 1809 …

  

  Lieutenant Augustin Le Pelletier de Voillemont, born on 27 March 1785 in Paris, who served in the 19th Infantry Regiment (composed of three battalions) led by Colonel Aubry (part of General Dupas’ Division, with Bernadotte as commander of IX Corps), wrote the following missives, full of details on the engagements he was involved in, as…

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  November 23, 2023

  1809 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer

  Accomodation, Aisne, Austria, Baggage, Baron, Battalion Commander, Battle of Aspern-Essling, Battle of Wagram, Billet, Bivouac, Captain, Certificate, Clothing, Company, Conscript, Count Daru, Daily life, Depot, Emperor, Equipment, Foot Artillery, Fusiliers, General Boulart, General Drouot, General Lariboisière, General Legrand, Horse Artillery, Injuries, Inspection, Krems, La Fère, Landwehr, Legion of Honour, Lieutenant, Marshal Bernadotte, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Masséna, Mühldorf, Money, Napoleon, Paris, Pay, Promotion, Rouen, Second Lieutenant, Skirmishers, Strasbourg, Supplies, Ulm, Vienna, Voltigeurs, Znaïm

• Recollections on the battle of Austerlitz, by Captain Ballue …

  

  Pierre Ballue, from whose memoirs we are reproducing an extract, was born in Bergerac in the Dordogne on 20 February 1778. His father, Jean-Baptiste, was a postmaster in the town. In 1799 (14 Vendémiaire, Year VII of the Republic), Ballue was drafted into the army through conscription. ‘This law’, he said, ‘summoned me to serve…

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  November 22, 2023

  1805 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Generals, Infantry, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer

  Austria, Battle of Austerlitz, Brünn (Brno), Camp of Boulogne, Captain, Conscription, Cossacks, Dordogne, Emperor, Emperor Francis of Austria, Imperial Guard, Marshal Moncey, Marshal Soult, Marshal Suchet, Moravia, Napoleon, Olmütz, Poland, Pultusk, Russia, Second Lieutenant, Strasbourg, Tsar Alexander

• Eyewitness accounts of the campaign in Russia, 1812 (III) …

  

  A letter from Baptiste Massicoir to his father: From Rostenbourg, (this) 20 August 1812. My dear father, This letter is to inform me of the state of your health and that of my brother and sisters. I am doing well. I hope with all my heart that this letter finds you all well. My dear…

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  July 16, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer, Soldier

  1812, Antwerp, Berlin, Bivouac, Bread, Bridge, Cossacks, Daily life, Detachment, Dunaburg, Dvina, Emperor, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, General Wittgenstein, Grants, Hunger, Imprisonment, Königsberg, Latvia, Light Infantry, Living off the land, Looting, Lorient, Mainz, Marshal Oudinot, Marshal Victor, Money, Moral, Moscow, Napoleon, Niemen, Peasants, Pillage, Poland, Polotsk, Prisoner of war, Promotion, Rearguard, River, Russia, Scorched earth, Second Lieutenant, Sergeant, St Petersburg, Supplies, Warsaw, Westphalia

• Second Lieutenant Zickel’s letters from Spain, 1808-1809 …

  

  Here we have François-Joseph Zickel, an officer in the 10th Regiment of Chasseurs à Cheval, after nine years’ service and almost as many campaigns. His ‘new epaulette’ received its baptism of fire at Friedland on 14 June 1807. Then, after the peace of Tilsit and a few months’ well-earned rest, the two Zickel brothers moved…

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  June 2, 2023

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

  Battle of Friedland, Battle of Medellín, Battle of Medina del Rio-Seco, Battle of Ocaña, Bivouac, Burgos, Captain, Chasseur à Cheval, Colmar, Daily life, Don Benito, Dragoons, Extremadura, General Lasalle, Grants, Guadiana, Guerilla, Hussars, Insurgency, Lieutenant, Madrid, Marshal Victor, Miajadas, Polish Lancers, Promotion, Quartermaster, Second Lieutenant, Somosierra, Spain, Talavera, Tilsit, Truxillo, Valdemor