History Of The Expedition To Russia, Undertaken By The Emperor Napoleon, In The Year 1812 [Illustrated Edition]
()
About this ebook
French general and historian Philippe-Paul, Comte de Ségur two-volume account of the invasion of Russia, first published in French in 1824, has been through many editions and has been translated into many languages. It is both a military history and an eyewitness account.
This 2nd edition English translation was first published in 1825 and remains immensely valuable to historians’ understanding of Napoleon’s ultimately disastrous Russian strategy. Volume 1 covers the invasion and the advance on Moscow, and Volume 2 covers the arrival of the French army at a deserted Moscow, details the conditions endured and the lives lost in the course of the retreat.
Gen. Philippe-Paul comte de Ségur
Philippe-Paul, comte de Ségur (1780-1873), was a French general and an historian. He enlisted in the cavalry in 1800, and forthwith obtained a commission. He served with General Macdonald in the Grisons in 1800-1801, and published an account of the campaign in 1802. By the influence of Colonel Duroc (afterwards duc de Frioul) he was attached to the personal staff of Napoleon. He served through most of the important campaigns of the first empire, and was frequently employed on diplomatic missions. During the campaign in Poland in 1807 he was taken prisoner by the Russians, but was exchanged at the Peace of Tilsit. His brilliant conduct in the cavalry charge at the battle of Somosierra on 30 November 1808 won him the grade of colonel, but his wounds compelled him to return to France. As general of brigade he took part in the Russian campaign of 1812, and in the campaigns of 1813 and 1814 he repeatedly distinguished himself, notably at Hanau (October 1813), and in a brilliant affair at Reims (March 1814). He remained in the army at the Restoration, but, having accepted a command from Napoleon during the Hundred Days, he was retired until 1818, and took no further active part in affairs until the July Revolution of 1830. On the establishment of the July monarchy he received, in 1831, the grade of lieutenant-general and a peerage. In 1830 he was admitted to the Académie française, and he became grand cross of the Legion of Honour in 1847. After the Revolution of 1848 he lived in retirement, dying in Paris on 25 February 1873.
Related to History Of The Expedition To Russia, Undertaken By The Emperor Napoleon, In The Year 1812 [Illustrated Edition]
Related ebooks
A Journal of the Russian Campaign of 1812. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHistory of Friedrich II of Prussia (All 21 Volumes): Biography of the Famous Prussian King, Called Frederick the Great Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Campaign of 1812 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Detailed Account Of The Battle Of Austerlitz Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA narrative of the campaign in Russia, during the year 1812 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNapoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812: Historical Account of the French Invasion of Russia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAn aide-de-camp of Napoleon. Memoirs of General Count de Ségur, of the French academy, 1800-1812 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCat Paws Through History: Ko-Ko the Cat Meets Napoleon Bonaparte Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRecollections Of An Officer Of Napoleon’s Army Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWith Fire & Sword (Historical Novel) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMemoirs of General de Caulaincourt - The Retreat From Moscow Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMemoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne: 1812-1813 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Effects Of Infectious Disease On Napoleon’s Russian Campaign Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWaterloo Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Ulm Campaign - 1805 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Week at Waterloo in 1815 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNapoleon Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn The King’s German Legion: Memoirs Of Baron Ompteda, Colonel In The King’s German Legion During The Napoleonic Wars Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Thirty Years War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings1812: The Great Retreat Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHistory Of The War In The Peninsular And In The South Of France, From The Year 1807 To The Year 1814 – Vol. VI Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNapoleon at Home — Vol. I Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNapoleon and the Archduke Charles Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPrince Eugene of Savoy: A Genius for War Against Louis XIV and the Ottoman Empire Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMemoirs of General de Caulaincourt - The Russian Campaign Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA History of the Peninsular War - Vol. III Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFailure In Independent Tactical Command: Napoleon’s Marshals In 1813 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Road to St Helena: Napoleon After Waterloo Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Wars & Military For You
Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Kingdom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Daily Creativity Journal Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Making of the Atomic Bomb Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unacknowledged: An Expose of the World's Greatest Secret Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/577 Days of February: Living and Dying in Ukraine, Told by the Nation’s Own Journalists Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mein Kampf: The Original, Accurate, and Complete English Translation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unit 731: Testimony Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The God Delusion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for History Of The Expedition To Russia, Undertaken By The Emperor Napoleon, In The Year 1812 [Illustrated Edition]
0 ratings0 reviews