Tag: Tsar Alexander

• 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

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

  

  In September 1811, Alphonse, now definitively released from his clothing employment, sent a detachment by boat from Huningue to Wesel to join the regiment. He travelled to Hamburg, made contact with Hubert and returned to the Huningue depot, bidding it farewell on 20 April 1812 when he left for Cologne with another detachment. It is…

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  March 13, 2024

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

  1812, Austria, Barclay de Tolly, Battle of Borodino, Battle of Maloyaroslavets, Battle of Smolensk, Battle of the Berezina, Berlin, Bivouac, Borodino, Borovsk, Brandy, Bulletin, Burning of Moscow, Captain, Cold, Cologne, Cossacks, Croatia, Cuirassier, Daily life, Danzig, Depot, Dnieper, Dvina, Foodstuffs, France, General Moreau, General Nansouty, Germany, Grants, Hamburg, Hanover, Huningue, Italy, Kaluga, Königsberg, Kovno, Kremlin, Legion of Honour, Light Infantry, Lithuania, Magdeburg, Marshal Bernadotte, Marshal Mortier, Marshal Victor, Minsk, Money, Moscow, Moskva, Napoleon, Niemen, Poland, Polotsk, Prince Bagration, Prisoner of war, River, Russia, Studienka, Supplies, Sweden, Swiss, Tilsit, Tsar Alexander, Vanguard, Vilna, Vitebsk, Voltigeurs, Vyazma, Water, Wesel

• Correspondence from Charleroi conscripts under Napoleon (II) …

  

  Letters from Pierre-Joseph Guilbert to his father Pierre-Joseph Guilbert was born in Jumet on 18 March 1781. He was the son of Charles and Marie Perony. A conscript of the Year IX (1800), he became a fusilier in the 5th Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 94th Line Infantry Regiment, 3rd Division of the…

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  February 26, 2024

  1805 Campaign, 1806 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Generals, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Peninsular War, Soldier

  Accomodation, Armistice, Austria, Baden, Battle of Austerlitz, Bavaria, Belgian, Belgium, Billet, Bivouac, Black Forest, Brigadier, British, Castile, Certificate, Charleroi, Conscript, Conscription, Cuirassier, Daily life, Desertion, Draft evasion, Dragoons, Duke of Wellington, Emperor Francis of Austria, Equipment, Family, Fürth, Fleurus, France, Freiburg im Breisgau, Fusiliers, Galicia (Spain), General Auguste de Caulaincourt, Germany, Hanover, Injuries, Joseph Bonaparte, Jumet, King Charles IV of Spain, Legion of Honour, Madrid, Marshal Jourdan, Marshal Murat, Merbes-le-Château, Misery, Mounted Carabiniers, Poland, Portugal, Prisoner of war, Prussia, Quartermaster, Religion, Rhine, Royal Guard, Russia, Saxony, Spain, Strasbourg, Tagus, Talavera, Train, Tsar Alexander, Württemberg, Weaponsmith

• 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

• Some notes of a grenadier of the Imperial Guard, 1813 …

  

  A couple of passages of a journal kept by Philippe Ballut, a soldier serving in the 2nd Grenadier Regiment of the Guard, related to the early stages of the 1813 Campaign … Thursday, 29 April. – The Old Guard arrived at Naumburg before noon and we lit our fires at the foot of the tower,…

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  January 29, 2024

  1813 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Engineers, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Memoirs, Officer, Soldier

  Accomodation, Alsace, Billet, Bivouac, Chasseur à Cheval de la Garde Impériale, Colonel, Conscript, Corporal, Cossacks, Daily life, Dresden, Emperor, Equipment, Erfurt, Espionage, Fatigue, General Berthezène, General Souham, Grand Marshal Duroc, Grenadiers, Hussars, Imperial Guard, Jena, Leipzig, Locals, Mamelukes, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Bessières, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Ney, Napoleon, Naumburg, Old Guard, Paris, Peace, Pillage, Prussia, Rain, Russia, Saale, Sappers, Saxony, Tsar Alexander, Weimar, Weissenfels, Young Guard

• 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 (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

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

  

  In the spring of 1806, Amédée Le Nourry, captain-adjutant-major in the 16th Dragoon Regiment, was posted on the banks of the Inn, near Passau, alongside Marshal Soult’s army corps. Adjutant-major Le Nourry was an excellent officer with a keen understanding of his profession. Born on 8 July 1777 in Craconville near Evreux, he volunteered for…

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  January 8, 2024

  1806 Campaign, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Diplomacy, General staff, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer

  Accomodation, Adjudant Major, Altmühl, Armistice, Austerlitz, Austria, Baden, Battle of Austerlitz, Battle of Jena, Bavaria, Berlin, Billet, Bivouac, Braunau, Captain, Colonel, Craconville, Daily life, Danube, Depot, Dragoons, Emperor, Evreux, Family, Foot Artillery, France, Franconia, Germany, Grenadiers, Haugwitz, Hohenlohe, Household, Inn, Inspection, King Frederick William III of Prussia, Kronach, Lieutenant, Locals, Magdeburg, Mainz, Marshal Murat, Marshal Soult, Metz, Meudon, Money, Mounts, Napoleon, Newspapers, Oder, Passau, Pay, Peace, Poland, Postal service, Potsdam, Prenzlau, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, Prussia, Ratisbonne, Regensburg, Review, Russia, Saxony, Scharding, Squadron Commander, Sulzbach, Tsar Alexander, Vienna, Württemberg, Würzburg