Tag: Truxillo
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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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Correspondence of General Foy in Spain, 1812 (I) …
Victor-Marie Duplan, officer in the Légion du Midi, joined the division headed by General Maximilien Sébastien Foy, he himself being the commander of the place of Canamero in 1812. We present here the orders and letters of his commanding officer, concerning this new role during this period in the Peninsular War. We read in them…