CHABERT Pierre [Joyeuse, 1770 - Besançon,... - Lot 15 - Oger - Blanchet

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CHABERT Pierre [Joyeuse, 1770 - Besançon,... - Lot 15 - Oger - Blanchet
CHABERT Pierre [Joyeuse, 1770 - Besançon, 1839], general of the Revolution and the First Empire. Interesting set of 4 autograph letters, addressed to his wife in Bourges. 1806-1089; 4 pages in-4°, addresses with postmarks, pasted on one edge on album pages. (Former collection Gallemant de Moureines). on October 16, 1806, he is at the Grande Armée in Cronach "always running after the headquarters that I cannot reach, they march quickly however I am in post with a mail of S.M. the emperor, but all the posts are disorganized and we will make little way. We have already had several affairs with the Prussians and always to our advantage. The last affair was worth 125 pieces of cannon and twenty eight thousand prisoners. It seems that the Prussians are not being treated any better this campaign than the Austrians were last time. [The guard is only there to serve in the great actions and we have not yet needed it. October 18, 1806: "I do not date because I do not know where I am, I meet a courier for France who wants to stop to take this small word. I still have twenty five or thirty leagues to go to find the headquarters. The Prussian army has already one hundred thousand men less in its army, the road is cluttered with prisoners, there is a complete rout. Postdam, October 31, 1806: "I have been in Postdam for three days, the dragoons that I commanded having received horses, I will have another destination []. It seems that a corps of grenadiers is being formed, and Gal Oudinot, who is to command it, told me that I would have a battalion there. [] It has been three or four days since H.M. the Emperor entered Berlin; we have just taken from the enemy sixteen thousand men, three princes and 60 pieces of cannon. [The Russians are advancing, but we are going to meet them to spare them half the way. They will not be happier than the Prussians. I am doing well. Augsburg, April 3, 1809: "I have just changed quarters again. I am, my maid, ten leagues from Augsburg, four leagues from Munich. This distance may well bring some delays in our correspondence. [] I still command the 1st 1/2 brigade of the line, 1st division of the reserve corps of the Rhine army, but it is necessary, my dear, that you substitute the word major for that of colonel because His Majesty having deigned to appoint among the majors of the army, several colonels in second rank, I find myself among them and we remain independent.
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