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egyptian campaign shenanigans

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Art, Music, Literature.

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Today is May 10, Davout's birthday! My husband!!! 🥳🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉 i love him so much

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Just knew they were born in the same year and on the same day🤯🤯

Suchet doodles btw☝️😋

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The folk are audacious nowadays… I got told that noughts and crosses could be played on my forehead.

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Not drawing post but oh lord I love this picture of Couthon hes so cutipie

Me after cutting my hair by myself💔💔💔

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HBD to Masséna🥳

Always be my favourite🥹👍

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Birthdays!

I already wished my cousin Maxime Robespierre a happy 267th, but I cannot forget the man who GOT me into this era in the first place...

A happy 267th to my Andre Massena, that one-eyed rogue SOB who was so maligned by the English and turned into a 2-dimensional character only interested in money and women, in that order, and who "hated his wife" (all bullshit propaganda!)

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A very happy birthday to a man who:

would sit in the corner with Brount at his own birthday party

would ask for 'just an orange juice, please, I have some work to do later'

would absolutely dread party games

would try desperately (but wouldn't quite manage) to set his face to 'oh wow I didn't expect that' as he receives his fifth collection of selected works of Rousseau

would hope that taking Brount for a walk with the Duplay girls counted as 'going out on the town'.

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Letter from Marshal Victor to Saint-Cyr

Translation might not be perfectly accurate as I'm only using google translate 🌙

Sienno, October 27, at noon [Reg. Victor]

When I had the honor of writing to you on the 22nd of this month, I assumed you were still in Polotsk, and that is why I was heading for Vitebsk, with the intention of going with the entire IX Corps to Ghorodok, in order to prevent the enemy, by this movement, from advancing on you with all his forces. I learned only very indirectly of the attempt he made on you, and yet it was on the basis of these uncertain reports that I received that I set out to support you, and I arrived as far as Orcha in the same uncertainty. The news I received about the fighting that took place at Polotsk from the 18th to the 20th was also vague, and I was surprised not to receive more official information I have nevertheless decided to change the direction of the IXth Corps and to bring it closer to Oula in order to soon be able to reunite it with the IInd and then resume the offensive against the enemy. Your letter of the 17th was not delivered to me until the 25th; I have now received the one you did me the honor of writing to me on the 24th. I have sent you one of my aides-de-camp to find out your situation, I am awaiting his return as well as the information he is to bring me. I have just sent the order to General Daendels to leave Vitebsk and quickly establish himself at Bechenkovitschi with his division and a cavalry regiment. The 28th Infantry Division commanded by General Girard, and three light cavalry regiments, under the orders of General Fournier, are arriving today at Sienno. The 120th Infantry Division, commanded by General Partouneaux, will be there tomorrow so that the entire IX Corps will be within range on the 29th to effectively support the He. I will direct it on the same day, the 29th, according to the information my aide-de-camp brings me.

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i cant believe I forgot to post the marshal yuri allignment chart on here

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Moncey’s protest.

Steps were being taken to convoke a “Council of War” or court martial for his trial. On the 21st his old comrade, Marshal Gouvion Saint-Cyr, now Minister of War, ordered that it should be composed of a number of marshals under the Presidency of Marshal Moncey. Moncey refused the position. St Cyr told him he must accept it or disobey the King. Then the old Marshal addressed to Louis XVIII a letter which did more honor to the writer than all his military exploits.

“Sire,” he wrote, “placed in the cruel dilemna of having to choose between disobeying Your Majesty or being false to my own conscience, I feel that I must explain myself to Your Majesty. I do not enter into the question of deciding whether Marshal Ney is innocent or guilty. …Ah! Sire, if those who direct Your Majesty’s councils thought only of your welfare, they would tell you the scaffold has never made friends. Do they imagine that death is so terrible for those who have so often braved it ? Is it the Allies who require that France should immolate her most illustrious citizens ? But, Sire, is there not a danger for your person and your dynasty in granting them this sacrifice ? … The daggers that struck down Brune, Ramel, and so many others are glittering before my eyes. And am I by my presence to sanction an assassination ? The throne of the Bourbons is endangered by its own allies, and am I to go to sap its foundations ? No, Sire, and you yourself will not disapprove of my resolves. Twenty-five years of glorious services shall not be dimmed in one day. My hair grown grey under the helmet shall not become the mark of dishonor.

My life, my fortune, all that is dearest to me, belongs to my country and to my King, but my honor is my own and no power on earth can wrest it from me; if I am to leave my children my name as their only inheritance, at least it shall not be tarnished.

Is it for me to pronounce upon the fate of Marshal Ney ? But, Sire, allow me to ask Your Majesty, where were his accusers while Ney was fighting on so many fields of battle ? Did they follow him, did they accuse him during twenty years of toil and danger ? If Russia and the Allies cannot pardon the conqueror of the Moskowa, can France forget the hero of the Beresina ? At the crossing of the Beresina, Sire, in the midst of that awful catastrophe, it was Ney who saved the remnant of the army. I had in it relatives, friends, and finally soldiers, who are the friends of their chiefs. And I am to send to death him to whom so many Frenchmen owe their lives , so many families their sons, their husbands, their relations! Excuse, Sire, the frankness of an old soldier, who always holding aloof from intrigues has known only his duty and his country. He believes that his voice, which spoke in disapproval of the wars of Spain and Russia may likewise speak the language of truth to the best of kings, to the father of his subjects. I do not disguise from myself that this might be a dangerous course with any other monarch. Nor do I fail to see that I may thus draw upon myself the hatred of courtiers, but if, as I go down to the tomb, I can say with one of your illustrious ancestors, “All is lost but honor!” I shall die content.”

The Government replied to Moncey’s protest by expelling him from the Chamber of Peers and condemning him to a term of imprisonment in a fortress.

A. Hilliard Atteridge- Marshal Ney, the Bravest of the Brave

[Statue of Moncey on the Place de Clichy]

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bruh!!! 😳

my babies…and napoleon ig

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i finally draw 🫰

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Thinking about making a whole ass AU except the only thing that changes is that Masséna's an otter.

No reason whatsoever, its just funny to think about him being able to rob everyone more easily

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