Tag: Vilna

• The Military Life of Bruno d’Ast … (II)

  

  Moscow, 20 September 1812. My dear father, you must have received my letter from Smolensk by now. I hope that it finds you in as good health as I am at the moment, despite the fatigue and hardship we had to endure before arriving in this city. I spoke to you in my last letter…

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  April 3, 2024

  1812 Campaign, 1813 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer, Soldier

  1812, Aachen, Accomodation, Aide-de-camp, Aix la-Chapelle, Appointment, Battle of Bautzen, Battle of Borodino, Battle of Lützen, Billet, Bivouac, Borodino, Breslau, Burning of Moscow, Captain, Captivity, Cold, Conscription, Daily life, Emperor, Family, Fatigue, General Lanusse, General Ricard, General Roguet, Grenade, Haute-Garonne, Imperial Guard, Königsberg, Legion of Honour, Leipzig, Liegnitz, Line infantry, Lintz, Loan, Mainz, Major, Marriage, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Ney, Marshal Pérignon, Money, Moscow, Moskva, Mounts, Mozhaysk, Naples, Napoleon, Neumark, Oder, Paris, Périgord, Périgueux, Pillage, Prisoner of war, Promotion, Prussia, Russia, Supplies, Tirailleurs, Toulouse, Vilna, Voltigeurs, Wine, Winter

• 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

• A doctor’s recounting of the battle of Ostrovno, July 1812 …

  

  Raymond Faure (1786-1850), a doctor in I Cavalry Corps of the Grande Armée, provides the following account of this engagement in his memoirs: Our corps (I Corps) was the vanguard of the army, and we had been in sight of the enemy for two or three days; a few cannon shots had been exchanged. On…

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  January 24, 2024

  1812 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs, Officer

  1812, Army of Italy, Arson, Bivouac, Crews, Cuirassier, Emperor, Equipment, Fatigue, Fire, Gunner, Guns, Heavy Cavalry, Horse Artillery, Hussars, Imperial Guard, Light Cavalry, Marshal Murat, Mounts, Napoleon, Ostrovno, Outpost, Picket, Pillage, Polish Lancers, Retreat, Russia, Scorched earth, Supplies, Vanguard, Village, Vilna, Vitebsk

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

  

  Bayonne, 15 March 1812. We arrived here the day before yesterday, and we are leaving tomorrow for Paris, where we will arrive on 16 April. I would have obtained permission to go to Ardèche, but I had to be in the capital by 15 April, which prevented me from obtaining it. I could only have…

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  December 19, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Anecdotes, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Medicine – Surgery, Officer, Peninsular War, Soldier

  1812, Accomodation, Avignon, Baggage, Bavaria, Bayonne, Berlin, Billet, Bivouac, Brandy, Cadre, Cahors, Captain, Captivity, Clothing, Conscription, Corporal, Cossacks, Cuirassier, Daily life, Debts, Doctor, Duna, Emperor, Equipment, Family, Foodstuffs, France, General Curial, General Rampon, Germany, Government, Grants, Heat, Homesick, Hunger, Injuries, Inspection, Kaiserslautern, Krasnoi, Lieutenant, Lieutenant Colonel, Locals, Mainz, Military School, Misery, Money, Mounts, Napoleon, Paris, Pay, Peace, Peninsular War, Plunder, Poland, Posen, Possessions, Prisoner of war, Provisioning, Prussia, Ruin, Russia, Sarrelouis, Scorched earth, Siberia, Smolensk, Stragglers, Supplies, Surgeon, Swiss, Thirst, Toulouse, Training, Transport, Vilna

• A letter on the retreat from Russia, by an artillery officer …

  

  The author of the following letter, Jean-Michel-Marie Prévost, son of Henri-François, councillor to the King, judge, magistrate in the seneschal and presiding court of Clermont-Ferrand, and Marguerite Monestier, was born in Clermont-Ferrand on 26 July 1782. Prévost entered the École Polytechnique on 1 Frimaire Year 10, became a student second lieutenant on 1 Vendémiaire Year…

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  November 21, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Artillery, Engineers, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer

  1812, Accomodation, Aide-de-camp, Battle of the Berezina, Bivouac, Clermont-Ferrand, Cold, Cossacks, Daily life, Dresden, Family, Foodstuffs, Foot Artillery, Horse Artillery, Injuries, Königsberg, Kovno, Krasnoi, Legion of Honour, Lyon, Magdeburg, Marriage, Moscow, National Guard, Pillage, Prisoner of war, Prussia, Rearguard, Retreat, Russia, Supplies, Thorn, Tilsit, Vilna, Vistula

• Letters of a battalion commander, Russia 1812 …

  

  The military operations of 1812 commenced in June. On the 15th, the 33rd Infantry Regiment numbered 4,252 men divided into five battalions. This is the unit of our officer, whose letters we reproduce. On the 18th, Napoleon, who was at Gumbinnen (Prussia), inspected the 33rd Regiment, part of the 2nd Division (led by General Friant)…

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  November 18, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Battle, Generals, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Medicine – Surgery, Officer

  1812, Accomodation, Ambulance, Battalion Commander, Battle of Borodino, Battle of Smolensk, Berlin, Bivouac, Certificate, Cold, Daily life, Danzig, Dysentery, Elbing, Emperor, Family, General Friant, General Nansouty, Gumbinnen, Gzhatsk, Illness, Injuries, Inspection, Königsberg, Legion of Honour, Line infantry, Mainz, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Davout, Minsk, Money, Moscow, Moskva, Mozhaysk, Napoleon, Oder, Promotion, Redoubts, Retreat, Russia, Smolensk, Stettin, Surgeon, Vilna, Wine

• 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 (V) …

  

  General Georg von Scheler (1770-1826, from Württemberg) wrote the following: Moscow, 8 and 9 October 1812. Everyone found shelter, albeit packed and cramped, in the suburb on the road to Kazan. The horses of the artillery, the two regiments of chevau-légers and the regiment of the King’s Chasseurs No. 4 were accommodated in stables or…

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  September 12, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, French-Allied forces, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Officer, Reports, Soldier

  1812, Accomodation, Austria, Bivouac, Borodino, Brandy, Bug, Burning of Moscow, Chasseur à Cheval, Clothing, Conscript, Conscription, Cossacks, Daily life, Danzig, Draft evasion, Duchy of Warsaw, Duke of Bassano, Emperor, Foodstuffs, Galicia (Poland), General Chichagov, General Durutte, General Dutaillis, General Marchand, General Reynier, Germany, Grants, Grodno, Homesick, Hospital, Hugues-Bernard Maret, Illness, Kazan, Königsberg, Kiev, Kovno, Light Cavalry, Light Horse, Marshal Augereau, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Murat, Marshal Ney, Marshal St Cyr, Marshal Victor, Minister of War, Minsk, Money, Moral, Moscow, Napoleon, Orsha, Outpost, Peasants, Pinsk, Poland, Polotsk, Posen, Pultusk, Punishment, Rearguard, Recruitment, Retreat, River, Russia, Saxony, Schwarzenberg, Smolensk, Supplies, Ukraine, Vanguard, Vilna, Volhynia, Walcheren, Warsaw, Württemberg, Würzburg

• Doctor Wilhelm Meier and Baden’s war efforts during the Russian campaign …

  

  This excerpt represents one complete chapter of Meier’s recollections. Relations between France and the rest of Europe, with Russia in particular – Causes and preparations for war Through the Peace of Vienna of 1809 and its consequences, the family bond established with the Imperial House of Austria, Napoleon had reached the summit of his fortune…

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  July 20, 2023

  1812 Campaign, French-Allied forces, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Medicine – Surgery, Memoirs

  1812, Accomodation, Army of Moldavia, Austria, Baden, Battle of Smolensk, Battle of the Berezina, Bivouac, Borodino, Burning of Moscow, Confederation of the Rhine, Continental System, Cossacks, Courland, Daily life, Danzig, Diplomacy, Doctor, Drissa, Duna, Dysentery, Elbing, Emperor, Fatigue, Frankfurt, Gdansk, General Chichagov, General Wintzingerode, General Wittgenstein, Germany, Hospital, Illness, Imprisonment, Jews, Königsberg, Kovno, Kremlin, Lancers, Looting, Mainz, Marienburg, Marshal Bernadotte, Marshal Murat, Marshal Victor, Moscow, Mozhaysk, Napoleon, Negotiations, Niemen, Occupation, Oder, Officer, Orsha, Ostrovno, Ottoman Empire, Paris, Pillage, Podolia, Poland, Pommerania, Prisoner of war, Prussia, Rearguard, Russia, Schwarzenberg, Scorched earth, Smolensk, St Petersburg, Stettin, Stralsund, Supplies, Sweden, Tilsit, Tsar Alexander, Vermin, Vienna, Vilna, Vistula, Vitebsk, Warsaw

• Colonel Raymond Guiraud’s war journal (V) …

  

  … At Pamplona in March 1812, General Dorsenne, whose health was a source of serious concern, became extremely ill. Ulliac, the army’s chief surgeon, suggested operating him. The ailment manifested itself as severe headache. The general hesitated for a long time; he had the most magnificent hair in the world and it was a form…

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  July 6, 2023

  1812 Campaign, Aide-de-camp, Anecdotes, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, Engineers, General staff, Generals, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Memoirs, Officer, Peninsular War

  1812, Armistice, Baron Larrey, Battle of the Berezina, Berlin, Bivouac, Borisov, Borodino, Burning of Moscow, Colonel, Cossacks, Daily life, Emperor, Foodstuffs, General Dorsenne, General Kirgener, General Lauriston, General Montbrun, General Sébastiani, Grand Marshal Duroc, Grants, Grenadiers, Hessians, Injuries, Königsberg, Kovno, Kremlin, Mainz, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Bessières, Marshal Murat, Marshal Ney, Marshal Oudinot, Moscow, Napoleon, Narbonne, Orsha, Pamplona, Paris, Retreat, Russia, Smorgon', Soisy-sous-Étiolles, Spain, St Petersburg, Supplies, Surgeon, Tarutino, Vilna, Vitoria