The note-books of Captain Coignet : soldier of the empire, 1799-1816
by Jean-Roch Coignet
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Captain Jean-Roch Coignet was born a month after the American Declaration of Independence, and lived through three French Revolutions, two Republics, one Empire, and four Kingships. He writes truthfully of himself and his times in these fascinating memoirs. In the pages of his note-book, Coignet relates the ordinary soldier's views of the great campaigns and battles - Montebello and Marengo in 1800; the campaigns of Austerlitz, Jena, Eylau and Friedland in 1805-7; a brief dash into Spain in show more 1808, where he helped to pursue Sir John Moore, the campaign of Aspern and Wagram in 1809, the Russian invasion of 1812, with its sequels in Germany and France, and finally the dramatic conclusion at Waterloo.'The Note-Books of Captain Coignet stand alone among French military memoirs, ' wrote Sir John Fortescue. 'His record of service is remarkable, embracing as it does every campaign of Napoleon as First Consul and Emperor ... In no other memoirs, perhaps, can be studied so closely the inner life of the Army which for so long was the terror of Europe.' show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- The note-books of Captain Coignet : soldier of the empire, 1799-1816
- Original title
- Aux vieux de la vieille
- Original publication date
- 1851
- People/Characters
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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- France
- Important events
- Battle of Montebello; Battle of Marengo; Battle of Ulm; Battle of Austerlitz; Battle of Jena; Battle of Eylau (show all 17); Battle of Friedland; Treaty of Tilsit; Peninsular War; Battle of Somosierra; Battle of Aspern-Essling; Napoleon's invasion of Russia; Battle of Borodino; Battle of Ligny; Battle of Waterloo; Battle of Leipzig; Napoleonic Wars
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- History, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
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- 944.046092 — History & geography History of Europe France and Monaco France Revolution 1789-1804 First consulate, Napoleon 1799-1804
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- DC198 .C6 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania France – Andorra – Monaco History of France Modern, 1515- Revolutionary and Napoleonic period, 1789-1815
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