Tag: Silesia

• 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

• 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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  April 8, 2024

  1813 Campaign, Allied (Coalition) forces, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Aide-de-camp, Ambulance, Austria, Baden, Baggage, Battle of Bautzen, Battle of Lützen, Bautzen, Bischofswerda, Bivouac, Blücher, Brandy, Bread, Captain, Conscript, Cossacks, Crime, Daily life, Dresden, Elbe, Elster, Emperor, Espionage, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, Görlitz, General Bertrand, General Bonnet, General Brenier, General Charpentier, General Compans, General Gérard, General Kirgener, General Marchand, General Morand, General Ricard, General Roguet, General Souham, General Wittgenstein, Grand Marshal Duroc, Grenadiers, Hessians, Hunger, Hussars, Imperial Guard, Kaya, Lancers, Lützen, Leipzig, Locals, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Macdonald, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Ney, Marshal Oudinot, Medical Officer, Money, Napoleon, Old Guard, Peasants, Pegau, Pillage, Poland, Prussia, Quartermaster, Reconnaissance, Retreat, River, Russia, Saxony, Sergeant-major, Silesia, Spree, Supplies, Te Deum, Theft, Transport, Tsar Alexander, Weisig, Weissenfels, Woods, Young Guard

• 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

• Three Letters from J. J. Delvau, Soldier of the Imperial Guard … (1812)

  

  IMPERIAL GUARDGrenadiers Tirailleurs6th Regiment – 1st Battalion4th Company At Courbevoie, 24 March 1812. My dear father and mother, brothers and sisters, I want you to know that we are leaving for Magdeburg in Germany to join the regiment, which arrived there not long ago. However I do not think we will pass by your side.…

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  March 22, 2024

  1812 Campaign, Anecdotes, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Soldier

  1812, Accomodation, Bavaria, Belgium, Bivouac, Champagne, Clothing, Courbevoie, Daily life, Dinant, Egypt, Emperor, Equipment, Family, Foodstuffs, France, Germany, Grenadier-Tirailleurs, Health, Imperial Guard, Indies, Lorraine, Magdeburg, Mainz, Meuse, Misery, Money, Napoleon, Paris, Poland, Posen, Rumors, Russia, Saint Avold, Sambre, Saxony, Silesia, Supplies, Tsar Alexander

• Archduke Charles’ correspondence from the 1809 Campaign

  

  Ried, this 8th April 1809. My dearest uncle, I arrived here yesterday, though not without having suffered a lot from the cold. Everything here is covered with snow. I leave this afternoon for Altheim. I will be in Braunau tomorrow evening, and the day after tomorrow before daylight I will cross my Rubicon, if, as…

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  January 17, 2024

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

  Aderklaa, Altenburg, Archduke Charles, Armistice, Austria, Battle of Aspern-Essling, Battle of Ebelsberg, Battle of Eckmühl, Battle of Wagram, Battle of Znaim, Bellegarde, Bohemia, Brünn (Brno), Bridge, Budweis, Comorn, Croatia, Danube, Depot, Emperor, Engerau, Entrenchments, Eugène de Beauharnais, Family, Galicia (Poland), General Hiller, General Junot, General Molitor, General Montbrun, General Pajol, General Stutterheim, General Vandamme, Germany, Grand Marshal Duroc, Gross-Enzersdorf, Gyulai, Hungary, Illness, Kollowrat, Landshut, Landwehr, Lüneburg, Liechtenstein, Linz, Lobau, Markgrafneusiedl, Marshal Bernadotte, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Davout, Marshal Kellerman, Marshal Macdonald, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Masséna, Marshal Ney, Metternich, Moravia, Napoleon, Neumark, Olmütz, Poland, Pontoon, Prague, Pressburg, Raab, Radetzky, Regensburg, Ried, River, Russbach, Salzburg, Saxony, Schöngrabern, Silesia, Stadion, Teschen, Tsar Alexander, Tyrol, Vienna, Wallachia, Znaïm

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

  

  On 25 February 1807, Pierre quoted a passage from the Emperor’s proclamation: We pursued the enemy with bayonets at their backs for eighty leagues. We won three engagements and one battle. The enemy has lost 20,000 men. We are going to return to our billets and woe betide anyone who dares to disturb our respite.…

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  January 4, 2024

  1807 Campaign, Battle, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Allenstein, Austria, Bartenstein, Battle of Friedland, Battle of Guttstadt, Battle of Heilsberg, Bivouac, Chasseur, Continental System, Cossacks, Crossen, Daily life, Duchy of Warsaw, Emperor, Equipment, Execution, Family, Flag, Frankfurt, General Gudin, Germany, Grants, Grenadiers, Hohenstein, Homesick, Huningue, Imperial Guard, Inspection, Insubordination, Königsberg, King Frederick William III of Prussia, Legion of Honour, Light Infantry, Locals, Magdeburg, Marshal Davout, Marshal Murat, Money, Napoleon, Negotiations, Niemen, Oder, Peace, Poland, Police, Pregel, Provisioning, Prussia, Russia, Russian Imperial Guard, Silesia, Sonnenburg, Supplies, Tapiau, Tilsit, Tsar Alexander, Vistula, Wine

• 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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  December 8, 2023

  1813 Campaign, Allied (Coalition) forces, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer

  Accomodation, Austria, Battle of Lützen, Battle of Leipzig, Bavaria, Berlin, Billet, Bivouac, Brunswick, Captain, Conscript, Cossacks, Cuirassier, Daily life, Dresden, Elbe, Elster, Emperor, Equipment, Eugène de Beauharnais, Family, General Lauriston, Germany, King Frederick William III of Prussia, Kirchberg, Kreuznach, Magdeburg, Mainz, Marshal Bessières, Marshal Davout, Marshal Macdonald, Marshal Ney, Money, Mounts, Napoleon, Oder, Pegau, Prussia, Retreat, Russia, Saale, Saxony, Silesia, Sweden, Thionville, Tsar Alexander, Wittenberg

• Two letters of beau sabreur Jean-Baptiste Guindey, 1805-1807 …

  

  Guindey, who was born on 12 April 1785 at Laruns in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, was a French quartermaster in the 10th Regiment of Hussars during the Napoleonic Wars. He is reputed to have killed Prince Louis-Ferdinand of Prussia in single combat at the battle of Saalfeld in 1806. He would find his death as a lieutenant…

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  November 16, 2023

  1805 Campaign, 1806 Campaign, 1807 Campaign, Battle, Cavalry, Generals, Letters – Correspondence, Marshals, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Ambulance, Austria, Battle of Austerlitz, Battle of Hanau, Battle of Saalfeld, Billet, Bivouac, Daily life, Danube, Elite company, Emperor, Family, France, General Lasalle, General Montbrun, Germany, Grenadiers à Cheval, Headquarters, Hussars, Injuries, Lancers, Leave, Legion of Honour, Lieutenant, Light Cavalry, Louis-Ferdinand of Prussia, Money, Napoleon, NCO, Ostrolenka, Peace, Poland, Pressburg, Promotion, Prussia, Pultusk, Quartermaster, Retirement, Russia, Silesia, Strasbourg, Surrender, Tilsit, Ulm, Vienna, Warsaw, Wertingen

• An Italian, the Grande Armée and the campaign of 1812 …

  

  The Biblioteca Estense in Modena preserves the original copies of a substantial set of letters written by an unsung soldier of the Army of the Kingdom of Italy, Paolo Magelli, born at Pavullo in 1785. These were addressed to his elder brother Giustiniano. In contrast, the correspondence does not contain the letters written by Giustiniano…

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  September 13, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, French-Allied forces, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Marshals, Officer, Soldier

  1812, Accomodation, Battle of Maloyaroslavets, Bavaria, Bivouac, Borodino, Burning of Moscow, Cold, Cossacks, Daily life, Dvina, Emperor, Eugène de Beauharnais, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, Frost, Grants, Hunger, Illness, Imperial Guard, Italy, Jérôme Bonaparte, Jews, Kaluga, Königsberg, Lithuania, Looting, Marienwerder, Marshal Murat, Milan, Modena, Money, Moscow, Mozhaysk, Napoleon, Niemen, Pillage, Poland, Prussia, Religion, Retreat, Royal Guard, Russia, Saxony, Silesia, Supplies, Surazh, Tsar Alexander, Vélite, Vermin, Vilna, Westphalia

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

  

  A few soldiers’ letters from the region now known as the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg … *** Stamp: N° 23, GRANDE ARMÉE. To Mr. Conrad Klein, merchant tanner at Medernach, district of Dickirch, Department of Forêts, via Luxembourg, at Dickirch in Medernach. Königsberg, 5 July 1812. Most beloved parents! It is with great pleasure that…

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  August 3, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Letters – Correspondence, Soldier

  1812, Accomodation, Berlin, Bivouac, Clothing, Cold, Cuirassier, Daily life, Depot, Desertion, Emperor, Eylau, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, Frost, Glogau, Grenadier-Tirailleurs, Hanover, Hunger, Illness, Injuries, Königsberg, Luxembourg, Mainz, Money, Mud, Napoleon, Prussia, Russia, Silesia, Supplies, Theft, Warsaw