Tag: Uniforms

• 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

• A letter on the Chasseurs à Cheval of the Guard, after Friedland …

  

  Here we present an unpublished letter from Colonel Claude-Étienne Guyot (1768-1837) to Viceroy Eugène de Beauharnais about the plight of the Chasseurs à Cheval of the Imperial Guard after the battle of Friedland. We learn that Guyot regularly kept Eugène informed about the state of the regiment (Eugène having served in the prestigious unit) and…

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  November 25, 2023

  1807 Campaign, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer, Reports

  Baggage, Battle of Eylau, Battle of Friedland, Bivouac, Captain, Chasseur à Cheval de la Garde Impériale, Clothing, Cold, Colonel, Daily life, Depot, Emperor, Eugène de Beauharnais, Fatigue, General Guyot, Grants, Imperial Guard, Injuries, Major, Napoleon, Pregel, Reconnaissance, Supplies, Tilsit, Uniforms, Vistula, Winter