| Term Paper Title | The Diary Of A Napoleonic Foot Soldier |
| # of Words | 789 |
| # of Pages (250 words per page double spaced) | 3.16 |
The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier
"The Diary of a napoleonic foot soldier" is a autobiography/biography piece of literature
of a soldier who went to war during Napoleon's rule. Jakob Walter is or was the author of
this book, and Walter explains to us what he did during several war campaigns.
Even though Walter was only nineteen, he was enlisted to the army by conscription and
assigned to the regiment of Romig, later to be called the Franquemont Regiment. His first
major mission was to escort several convoys of captured Prussians, from Glogau to
Dresden during the month of March,1806. His voyage to Dresden was simple but the way
back to Glogau, they were surrounded by Prussians at the city of Bunzlau. So they stayed
in Bunzlau and caught any spies that somehow got in. One spy that was caught was
whipped one hundred and fifty times on his back, until he was half dead, and then shot,
because he was about to send letters to the Prussians about the city's manpower. After the
siege there was over Walter headed back to Glagau. Other missions assigned to him were
the safe escort of the money wagons from Glagau to the Vistula River, the attack on the
fortress Stettin, and the siege at Glatz.
Walter had a brother in the was with him who was stationed in the Lilienburg Regiment.
Whenever they fought and whenever they were in the same city, they would look for each
other because they had a strong brotherly love.
In 1809, Walter was called back to war when war with Austria broke out.
He writes about the march from village to village, and would stay at other people's houses
where there was plenty of wine to drink. In October he came to a village where he was
quartered at a place housing a nun. Upon seeing Walter read a lot, the Nun started asking
questions and Walter lied telling her he was a monk. He left that place leaving the hosts
liking him and then two years go by ( maybe a part of the diary was missing!)
The next part of the diary was long, so I will only point out some of the major and
interesting events of 1812 and 1813.In January, 1812, Walter was recalled to war. His
regiment marched for months traveling through Poland and into Russia. Food was scarce
and hunger took over all the soldiers, so t...Read entire document
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