Fighting for Napoleon in Austria, Poland, Spain and the Alps Thomas
Robert Bugeaud was the impoverished son of an aristocratic family
which had narrowly escaped the guillotine of the Revolution.
Necessity, rather than conviction, forced him reluctantly into the
ranks of the Imperial Guard Grenadiers, where his position as a
Velite put him on the fast track to higher rank. Bugeaud provides
an interesting view of Napoleon's preparations for the invasion of
Britain and recounts his experiences afloat in naval actions in the
Channel. After Austerlitz and promotion he joins the Line Infantry
as an officer. Poland and Pultusk brought battle and wounds. A
transfer to Spain with the 116th Infantry flung Bugeaud headlong
into the uprising of 1808 in Madrid and the bloody capture of
Saragossa, followed by a war to the death with guerrillas until the
retreat to France. The First Restoration brought colonelcy in the
Bourbon army, but the 100 Days called Bugeaud back to the tricolour
for fighting in the Alpine Campaign. From private to colonel in
Napoleon's army-the early career of a man who would win his baton
in the sands of North Africa.
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