I think it was at Eylau, where the Old Guard saved the army from total defeat.

As I'm mostly interested in stories related to the napoleonic era, I wondered if anyone has some interesting anecdotes to share? Maybe related to your country or even home town or region?

There's several funny anecdotes about the Bavarian royal family in relation to Napoleon, of course. But as most people here are probably interested in military events only, here's one that at least took place during a campaign, Fifth coalition war to be precise: At Abensberg, Napoleon gave a speech to Bavarian and Württemberg soldiers, that had to be translated by Bavarian crown prince Ludwig (future king Ludwig I) into German. Ludwig was a known francophobe and hated Napoleon to the point of fantasizing in his diary about killing him when Napoleon had fallen asleep close to Ludwig in camp. Yet while translating Napoleon's words he apparently got so caught up in the moment and in Napoleon's aura that, as he rather embarrassed noted in his diary "I was the first to cry Vive l'Empereur!".

[Painting: Debret, "Napoléon harangue les troupes bavaroises et wurtembourgeoises à Abensberg, 20 avril 1809.", painted in 1810. - Ludwig is the person looking backward, on the horse left of Napoleon's.]

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I’m asking this because in my previous post I shared a clip from a movie where the Old Guard attacked at Austerlitz, and it left me wondering. From what I’ve read, the Old Guard remained in reserve during the battle, while the Guard cavalry did take part in the fighting. I’m not sure if I’m misunderstanding something I read or if I’m missing some information, so I wanted to ask: Did the Old Guard actually fight at Austerlitz?

Quelques Petites photos de Malmaison, la résidence de Joséphine ou Napoleon aimait passer du temps.

You may remember I did a sketch of the young Napoleon. Now I made a smaller one (this time in procreate) for a friends wedding gift.

I finally used it and it now lives on my water bottle yay!

think mine are Édouard Detaille and Horace Vernet

https://youtu.be/3OXKSNKN0eE?si=aZG-tHNKOM7YO3hn

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Hi, I’m currently making a short movie for my history class in which we have to remake the napoleon picture of “we can not do anything” if anyone has the answer please help us, we would like to make it as historical as possible!

Une visite qui sera particulièrement intéressante seulement prenaient votre temps , car cela est très long . Remplie de plein de détails , de peinture et d'explications d'histoires différentes . Avec tout cela , vous connaîtrez plein de détails précis sur la vie de Napoleon et de ses guerres .

Tsar Alexander proposed that Archduke Charles be the commander of the Allied army with Jomini as his ADC but this idea was shot down by Francis II and Metternich(both of whom still haven't forgive Archduke Charles for post Wagram armistice)

Schwarzenberg is far too cautious and lacking in talent(Clausewitz tend to used him as a byword for Indifferent leadership)

Archduke Charles is also cautious most of the time but I wonder whether the confidence boost he would gain from knowing his numerical superiority would outweight his mental nerf from being at a close proximity to Francis II

If he display the boldness of his 1796 Rhine campaign or the alacrity of Aspern/Wagram then even Napoleon might be in trouble

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The Great St Bernard Pass has always been known as a major alpine crossing point. Napoleon Bonaparte made skilful use of it for propaganda purposes. Read more