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EGYPT (campaign of) and others. - DODE DE LA BRUNERIE (Guillaume). Autograph manuscript. 21 floréal an VI-5 thermidor an XI [10 mai 1798-24 juillet 1803] and s.d. Approx. 165 pp. in-12 in a paperback notebook in soft card cover covered with dominoté paper. Diary kept mainly in Alexandria during the Egyptian campaign. The future marshal first wrote a short introduction in the style of historiographical accounts, still naming the campaign "Expedition known as the Mediterranean Coast Expedition", with lists of ships, officers (including "comrades"), or scholars. The main body of the text then takes on the form of a diary. Stationed in Alexandria, Guillaume Dode de La Brunerie records the actions of the French, Turks and English as he knew them, mentioning for example the battles of Aboukir (1799 and 1801), Heliopolis and Canope, which is extremely useful for understanding what an officer on the spot might have known and thought about the events of the campaign. This diary is a first-hand source for the final period of the campaign, when General-in-Chief Menou withdrew to Alexandria before capitulating. Guillaume Dode de La Brunerie recounts the English bombardments from ships in the harbor and from high ground, the ravages of scurvy among the soldiers, the discussions among the command and the negotiations leading up to the capitulation. Guillaume Dode de La Brunerie reembarked for France in October 1801 on the same English ship as the future Grand Marshal Bertrand. At the end of the volume, he has devoted a few pages to compiling an itinerary of his travels, an account of expenses, and a commented list of the miners' and engineers' officers he met during this campaign. Finally, the future Marshal Dode de La Brunerie adds a few details of his professional and private movements after his return to France, until his departure for the Boulogne camp. illustrated with 5 original drawings (pen and ink): sketch of the battle of Heliopolis (1800), plan of the battle of Aboukir (1801), 2 plans of the battle of Canope (1801), a small level plan of the environs of Alexandria. Attached, from the same source, an autograph plan entitled "Plan de la rade et presqu'isle d'Aboukir avec la position et les mouvemens des vaisseaux français et anglois au combat du 14 thermidor an 6e [1er août 1798], ainsi que celle de l'armée turque débarquée le 27 messidor et détruite à la bataille du 7 thermidor an 7e [25 juillet 1799]". Black, brown and red ink, with watercolor wash highlights, 52 x 43 cm, sheet cut into 4 parts, canvas-backed and folded to in-4 format with autograph title page; a few tears. This plan was engraved on copper and published by Denain and Delamare around 1830-1831.
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EGYPT (campaign of) and others. - DODE DE LA BRUNERIE (Guillaume). Autograph manuscript. 21 floréal an VI-5 thermidor an XI [10 mai 1798-24 juillet 1803] and s.d. Approx. 165 pp. in-12 in a paperback notebook in soft card cover covered with dominoté paper. Diary kept mainly in Alexandria during the Egyptian campaign. The future marshal first wrote a short introduction in the style of historiographical accounts, still naming the campaign "Expedition known as the Mediterranean Coast Expedition", with lists of ships, officers (including "comrades"), or scholars. The main body of the text then takes on the form of a diary. Stationed in Alexandria, Guillaume Dode de La Brunerie records the actions of the French, Turks and English as he knew them, mentioning for example the battles of Aboukir (1799 and 1801), Heliopolis and Canope, which is extremely useful for understanding what an officer on the spot might have known and thought about the events of the campaign. This diary is a first-hand source for the final period of the campaign, when General-in-Chief Menou withdrew to Alexandria before capitulating. Guillaume Dode de La Brunerie recounts the English bombardments from ships in the harbor and from high ground, the ravages of scurvy among the soldiers, the discussions among the command and the negotiations leading up to the capitulation. Guillaume Dode de La Brunerie reembarked for France in October 1801 on the same English ship as the future Grand Marshal Bertrand. At the end of the volume, he has devoted a few pages to compiling an itinerary of his travels, an account of expenses, and a commented list of the miners' and engineers' officers he met during this campaign. Finally, the future Marshal Dode de La Brunerie adds a few details of his professional and private movements after his return to France, until his departure for the Boulogne camp. illustrated with 5 original drawings (pen and ink): sketch of the battle of Heliopolis (1800), plan of the battle of Aboukir (1801), 2 plans of the battle of Canope (1801), a small level plan of the environs of Alexandria. Attached, from the same source, an autograph plan entitled "Plan de la rade et presqu'isle d'Aboukir avec la position et les mouvemens des vaisseaux français et anglois au combat du 14 thermidor an 6e [1er août 1798], ainsi que celle de l'armée turque débarquée le 27 messidor et détruite à la bataille du 7 thermidor an 7e [25 juillet 1799]". Black, brown and red ink, with watercolor wash highlights, 52 x 43 cm, sheet cut into 4 parts, canvas-backed and folded to in-4 format with autograph title page; a few tears. This plan was engraved on copper and published by Denain and Delamare around 1830-1831.
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