Null Métayer. The Line Infantry (1812). The Voltigeurs. 1 officer, 3 non-commiss…

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Métayer. The Line Infantry (1812). The Voltigeurs. 1 officer, 3 non-commissioned officers and 12 soldiers. (16 fig.). T.B.E.

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Métayer. The Line Infantry (1812). The Voltigeurs. 1 officer, 3 non-commissioned officers and 12 soldiers. (16 fig.). T.B.E.

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AGENDA Printed poster (front in French, back in Spanish). H.Q. Burgos, October 23, 1812. Header with vignette of the Imperial Arms. 21,5 x 31. Joint: L.A.S (3-line dispatch) from Gal Comte Marie François Auguste Caffarelli du Falga to Gal Thièbault, Brivesca October 22, 1812; 1/2 page, 20 x 25.5. "The English are in retreat. The Portuguese army is on the trail, I expect to be in Burgos this evening."

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Officer's shako of the 4th Line Infantry Regiment, aurora felt shaft, presented with a green and red plume. Beautiful 20th century reconstruction.

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REGIMENTAL HISTORY "Historical notes on the 116th Infantry Regiment". [162 numbered pages] (Following: ) "Notes historiques sur le 76ème Régiment devenu 92ème". [24 numbered pages]. Circa 1815-1820 2 manuscripts in 1 volume in 4°, ½ green vellum of the time. Fine, tight handwriting, regular and practically without erasures. 32 to 38 lines per page. A few corrections and additions in the margins. Enclosed: - a detailed table of all officers and non-commissioned officers in the companies of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd (became 4th on July 10, 1813) battalions, with dates of appointment. From August 23, 1808 to June 17, 1814. - 8 manuscript pages in folio. Center fold. In the same hand as the preceding documents, and their contemporaries. - 1 in-32 handwritten notebook sheet, in the same hand, bearing on the recto, in ink, the names of some grenadier and voltigeur officers of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd battalions; and on the verso, in pencil, the price in Spanish duros of a horse, a mule, rye, barley, corn, peas, beans, etc., and their contemporaries. - 1 in-32 manuscript leaf, in the same hand, copying a passage on the Cent jours (Pont sur Yonne, March 18, 1815) from Alphonse Beauchamp's Histoire des Campagnes de 1814-1815 (Tome I, chapter XXV, page 288. Paris, 1816), with this angry comment: Absurde! False!) - 2 leaves in-24, one blank and the other bearing an unfilled handwritten table, entitled "Récapitulation générale. Leagues of 2000 toises", from 1806 to 1820. - 8 large in-4° handwritten pages from a comrade-in-arms to whom the author has requested a proofreading of his Notes Historique... Soberly called "Notes", these 8 pages make invaluable contributions and developments to the Historical Notes on the battle of Tudella, the second siege of Saragossa, etc... The author of these "Notes" - who, unlike the author of the Notes Historiques, sometimes speaks in the first person - seems to have belonged to the same regiment, in a different battalion, as a drummer, before being attached to the army of Catalonia in August 1811. - a "Report from General Delort to General Harispe" dated July 21, 1812, on the battle of Castalla. 4 manuscript pages, large in-8. Possible copy in the hand of the author of the Notes Historiques; contemporary with the preceding manuscript, providing extensive information on the Battle of Castalla. FIRST PART (162 pages) OF THE MAIN MANUSCRIPT "Historical notes on the 116th Infantry Regiment "By decree of October 17, 1807, the Emperor ordered the formation of twelve provisional infantry regiments, to form an army corps which in Bordeaux took the name of corps d'armée d'observation des côtes de l'océan. These regiments were to consist of four detachments from different corps, each detachment of four companies, and each company of 150 men." (A total of 28,000 men, with around 2,200 men per regiment)". Such is the beginning of this manuscript, which provides an extraordinarily accurate account of the war waged in Spain (more aptly called the War of Independence by the Spanish) by the 5th Provisional Line Infantry Regiment, under the command of Colonel Pierre-Michel Rouelle. This 5th Regiment, together with the 6th Régiment Provisoire d'Infanterie de Ligne, became the 116th Régiment d'Infanterie de Ligne on July 1, 1808, by retroactive decree of July 8, 1808. This first part, entitled "Notes historiques sur le 116ème Régiment d'Infanterie", ends on page 162 with a table of names entitled "Etat formé le 1er mars 1812 en vertu du décret du 24 janvier 1812 sur les dotations de l'armée d'Espagne dans le Royaume de Valence". PART TWO (24 pages) OF THE MAIN MANUSCRITUM Historical notes on the 76th Regiment, now the 92nd The ordinance of May 12, 1814 gave a new organization to the French army. The 76th Regiment created by this ordinance was to be formed in Bourg from the 6 battalions of the 92nd Regiment, the 2nd battalion of the 116th and the 2nd battalion of the 8th Regiment of the Imperial Guard. "During the month of January 1815, many soldiers returned from Russian prisons, deserters were recalled, and the government took measures to complete the corps, which was diminishing daily through desertion. One hundred men from the Ain department were incorporated into the Regiment, which, with the prisoners of war returned from Russia, grew to almost 900 men... ( ) The news of Napoleon's landing in France on March 1st soon spread throughout France and overturned all the best established calculations". This second part concludes with the "Composition" tables.

Estim. 250 - 300 EUR

IMPORTANT SET OF SOLDIERS flat pewter painted uniforms - French: 2 boxes of engineer sappers and artillery in action - Russian 1812: 11 boxes (infantry assaulting, cavalry charging, cuirassiers de la Garde, artillery, dead and wounded, etc.) - one box of wounded and abandoned horses. In original wooden boxes

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