Tag: Water
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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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1812 Campaign, Anecdotes, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Infantry, Letters – Correspondence, Logistics – War Commissionary – Intendancy, Officer, Soldier1812, 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 -
An Imperial Guard commander and the 1813 Campaign (III) …
… We camped on the plain in close columns by division and by battalion mass. We were standing in mud and water up to half our legs, and I could never understand what was the reason for choosing such an uncomfortable and unhealthy position. On 22 August 1813 we remained in the same order. A…
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1813 Campaign, Artillery, Battle, Cavalry, General staff, Imperial Guard, Infantry, Memoirs, Officer, SoldierBatteries, Battle of Lützen, Bivouac, Clothing, Colonel, Daily life, Dresden, Elbe, Fatigue, Foodstuffs, Görlitz, General de Rottembourg, General Paillard, Gross-Garten, Hospital, Illness, Injuries, Marshal Mortier, Mud, Old Guard, Pirna, Prussia, Redoubts, Regiment of Tirailleurs, Russia, Skirmishers, Vermin, Water -
The 1814 journal of a squadron commander – horse artillery (I) …
Hubert Mathieu (1767-1844) was a squadron commander in the horse artillery. Here is an extract from his journal set during the campaign for France in 1814. On 1 January 1814, at about two o’clock in the afternoon, on a splendid Sunday, just as we were about to arrive at our billets [those of Landau, in…
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Austria, Bar-le-Duc, Battle of Champaubert, Bivouac, Brienne, Châlons, Craonne, Daily life, Fismes, France, General Doumerc, La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, Marne, Marshal Marmont, Marshal Ney, Metz, Montmirail, Mud, Neustadt, Nogent-sur-Seine, Prussia, Rheims, Rhine, Russia, Saint-Dizier, Sarreguemines, Squadron Commander, Thionville, Troyes, Vauchamps, Verdun, Vertus, Vitry, Vitry-sur-Marne, Water