Poles in the service of Napoleon and the Grand Army, part 3.

Collection of 25 objects from 1808-1812, from the time of the Grande Armée's activities in Spain, the Prussian and Polish campaigns, the war with Austria and the Russian campaign. The correspondence includes a letter from Prince Antoni Sulkowski to the Minister of War, Count d'Hunebourg, written from Toledo on January 30, 1809. Jan Kozietulski's letter from the time of the war with Austria: "Here we see only prisoners of war, not by hundreds but by thousands." Lt. Stanislaw Hempel in his letter to his mother in Pulawy: "we struck 200 horses against two thousand Spanish infantry, laid 500 dead and scattered the rest to the four corners of the world. If the Emperor gives anyone a cross for this affair, I am the first to be given." Language of correspondence: French, Polish.

Individuals and unit commanders mentioned in the documents (number of documents in parentheses): Clarke Henri-Jacques-Guillaume (1765-1818) (1), Davout Louis Nicolas (1770-1823) (1), Grabowski Michał (1773-1812) (1), Hempel Stanisław (1788-1873) (1), Kosiński Antoni Amilkar (1769-1823) (1), Kozietulski Jan (1778-1821) (3), Łubieński Franciszek (1784-1826) (1), Morand Charles Antoine (1771-1835) (1), Oppeln-Bronikowski Mikołaj (1767-1817) (2), Sulkowski Antoni Paweł (1785-1836) (1), Wojczyński Stanisław (1766-1837) (1) and: Chaponnel colonel, Milewski A. captain.