Tag: Vyazma

• 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

• Eyewitness accounts of the campaign in Russia, 1812 (II) …

  

  TO COUNT DE LAVALETTE, DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE EMPIRE’S POSTAL SERVICES, IN PARIS. Moscow, 16 October 1812. My dear Count, I have the honour of informing you that the Intendant General has ordered me to bring down the postal service between France and Gumbinnen to one courier every two days, and the one between the…

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  June 30, 2023

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

  1812, Battle of Borodino, Battle of Maloyaroslavets, Battle of Smolensk, Berlin, Bivouac, Borodino, Burning of Moscow, Clothing, Colonel, Cossacks, Count Daru, Cuirassier, Custrin, Daily life, Dinaburg, Dorogobuzh, Fatigue, General Beaumont, General Caulaincourt (Master of Horse), General Desvaux de Saint-Maurice, General Sébastiani, Glogau, Gumbinnen, Headquarters, Horse Artillery, Injuries, Kaluga, Lieutenant, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Davout, Money, Moscow, Moskva, Mozhaysk, NCO, Niemen, Orsha, Paris, Posen, Postal service, Prussia, Redoubts, River, Russia, Smolensk, Stettin, Supplies, Surgeon, Vilna, Vitebsk, Vyazma, Warsaw

• Officer Boudousquie (18th Line) on the road to Russia, 1812 (V) …

  

  A letter to his banker … At Czernigow (Chernihiv), 8 December 1812. I only received your letter of 16 September yesterday, with two others from my father, one of 17 June and the other dated 4 September. For a long time now I have been supplied with nothing but grief and bitterness. I am delighted…

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  December 28, 2022

  Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, French-Allied forces, General staff, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Marshals, Officer, Soldier

  1812, Chernihiv, Cossacks, Daily life, Dnieper, Eugène de Beauharnais, Injuries, Krasnoi, Lieutenant, Marshal Davout, Marshal Ney, Money, Pillage, Prisoner of war, Retreat, Russia, Smolensk, St Petersburg, Vyazma

• A letter from Marshal Berthier to Marshal Ney, 1812 …

  

  Berthier recounts the battle of Maloyaroslavets in this letter, and the prince announces to Ney that the Emperor decided to carry out the retreat via Mozhaysk and Vyazma. The Duke of Elchingen will thus have to proceed to Vereya with all the parks which are located at Borovsk, and then move from Vereya to Mozhaysk.…

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  November 3, 2022

  1812 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Reports

  Battle of Maloyaroslavets, Bivouac, Borovsk, Cossacks, Eugène de Beauharnais, General Morand, Marshal Berthier, Marshal Davout, Marshal Mortier, Marshal Ney, Marshal Poniatowski, Mozhaysk, Retreat, Russia, Vyazma

• A letter to Marshal Macdonald, Russia 1812 …

  

  Hugues-Bernard Maret, the Duke of Bassano and Minister of Foreign Relations, who had remained in Vilna (Vilnius), provided Marshal Macdonald with news on 5 September 1812 and passed on the Emperor’s instructions to him. The duke retraced the march of the army of which Eugène and Poniatowski formed the wings, and he reproached the Russians…

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  August 19, 2022

  1812 Campaign, General staff, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Marshals, Reports

  Barclay de Tolly, Cossacks, Duke of Bassano, Dvina, Eugène de Beauharnais, Hugues-Bernard Maret, Imperial Guard, Kutuzov, Marshal Davout, Marshal Macdonald, Marshal Murat, Marshal Ney, Marshal Poniatowski, Marshal St Cyr, Marshal Victor, Minister of Foreign Relations, Moscow, Vilna, Vyazma

• A letter of Commander Poincaré, Russia 1812 …

  

  The officer had been commander of arms at Vyazma since the end of August 1812 or early September. He disappeared during the retreat. His letter shows, as he remarks to Marshal Berthier, that the peasant revolt ‘is taking on a gravity which deserves attention’ … Vyazma, 16 October 1812. Your Highness, Except for the time…

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  August 9, 2022

  1812 Campaign, Cavalry, French-Allied forces, General staff, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer, Reports

  1812, Confederation of the Rhine, Marshal Berthier, Retreat, Russia, Vyazma