Tag: Weissenfels
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Guard Grenadier Philippe Ballut at Lützen and Bautzen, 1813 …
In the evening, with the 2nd Grenadier Regiment occupying the ground on a plateau, the soldiers sighted the town of Lützen, with its round bell tower and a tall belfry tower dominating the large tile roofed buildings. The French cavalry had already entered the town to capture a few stragglers. It was known that Blücher…
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Some notes of a grenadier of the Imperial Guard, 1813 …
A couple of passages of a journal kept by Philippe Ballut, a soldier serving in the 2nd Grenadier Regiment of the Guard, related to the early stages of the 1813 Campaign … Thursday, 29 April. – The Old Guard arrived at Naumburg before noon and we lit our fires at the foot of the tower,…
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The plight of a Belgian Guard of Honour, 1813 …
Here we have a lengthy letter of a Belgian Garde d’Honneur, Ferdinand de Caigny (1794-1848), recounting in detail the events he and his fellow soldiers of the 1st Regiment experienced in the autumn months of the year 1813 … Gruinestadt, 19 November 1813, three leagues from Worms and Frankenthal. My dear Parents, We left Frankenthal…