Tag: Versailles

• Louis Jacques Romand and the turmoil of 1813 … (I)

  

  The protagonist of these recollections is Louis Jacques Romand. He was born in Vauconcourt, part of the arrondissement of Gray, Haute-Saône Department, on 12 October 1790. He saw action in the campaign in Austria of 1809 as a fusilier chasseur of the Guard (1st Regiment). Romand then was assigned to a expeditionary battalion and travelled…

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  May 4, 2024

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

  Accomodation, Administration, Aide-de-camp, Ammunition, Austria, Bamberg, Barracks, Battalion, Battle of Dresden, Bavaria, Billet, Bivouac, Bohemia, Brest, Brittany, Champs-Elysées, Cold, Courage, Daily life, Dresden, Dutch, Emperor, Emperor Francis of Austria, Equipment, Expedition, Family, Fencing, Fire, Flag, Franconia, Frankfurt, Freyberg, Fusiliers, Geishubel, General Bonnet, Germany, Governor, Haute-Saône, Hunger, Illness, Imperial Guard, Injuries, Inspection, Invalides, Line infantry, Mainz, Marshal Augereau, Marshal Kellerman, Marshal Sérurier, Marshal St Cyr, Mauritius, Metz, Minister of War, Napoleon, Navy, NCO, Paris, Peace, Pirna, Prisoner of war, Prussia, Quartermaster, Rain, Rhine, Russia, Russian Imperial Guard, Saint-Cloud, Saint-Denis, Saxony, Sergeant, Sergeant-major, Seychelles, Shako, Sojourn, Supplies, Training, Truce, Vauconcourt, Versailles, Vertus, Village, Würzburg

• 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

• Correspondence of grognard Jean-Henry Rattier (I) …

  

  The author of these letters, Jean-Henry Rattier, was born in Val-Chambre (Ardèche) on 1 June 1775, the fifth child of a farmer whose four other sons served in the French army during the campaigns of the Revolution. Henry Rattier, employed as a miller in a silk factory in Privas, joined the National Guard when he…

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  November 30, 2023

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

  Accident, Accomodation, Adjudant Major, Administration, Alsace, Austria, Battle of Wagram, Billet, Bivouac, Captain, Chasseur, Clothing, Compiègne, Conscript, Daily life, Drill, Emperor, Equipment, Erfurt, Family, Fatigue, Flemish, General Curial, General Junot, General Rampon, General Soulès, Grants, Illness, Imperial Guard, Injuries, Inspection, Lieutenant, Lieutenant Colonel, Light Infantry, Metz, Moral, Napoleon, NCO, Parades, Paris, Pay, Piedmontese, Police, Polish Lancers, Promotion, Regiment of Tirailleurs, Retirement, Schönbrunn, Spain, Strasbourg, Tsar Alexander, Versailles, Voltigeurs, Wine, Winter

• The 1814 journal of a squadron commander – horse artillery (II) …

  

  The second part of Squadron Commander Hubert Mathieu’s (horse artillery) journal set during the 1814 campaign for France … … On the 18th, at 9 o’clock, Bac was evacuated and the infantry of the corps proceeded towards Roussi. The various (out)posts which were relieved were to form the rearguard along with the horse artillery and…

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  February 9, 2023

  1814 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Imperial Guard, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer

  Abdication, Auxonne, Batteries, Besançon, Bivouac, Champaubert, Château-Thierry, Colonel, Cuirassier, Daily life, Douay, Duke of Ragusa, Emperor, Essonne, Fismes, Fontainebleau, General Bordessoulle, General Hubert, General Souham, Gunner, Howitzer, Journal, La Ferté-Gaucher, Marshal Marmont, Melun, Napoleon, Oise, Rheims, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Sézane, Versailles, Vertus