#raymond desvarreux

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Napoleon on horseback by Raymond Desvarreux

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Raymond Desvarreux, "Lazare Carnot, Wattignies 1793" , 1909.

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Description French Soldiers. Oil on canvas, 1902. Signed and dated at lower right. From a Nyack, NY collection. Dimensions 14" h x 10.9" w. Artist or Maker Raymond Desvarreux https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/raymond-desvar..

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I can’t find a high res version of this. The Emperor and His Staff by Raymond Desvarreux

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Battle of Borodino (2/2)

Attack after attack of the infantry was hurled back from the Grand Redoubt. Davout had been unhorsed and stunned early in the day. Murat was commanding his infantry as well as the cavalry. The French line along the captured heights had to hold its own against repeated counter-attacks of the Russians. On the right Barclay had not lost a foot of ground. Ney was fighting in the center, near the Great Redoubt, exposing himself freely in the thickest of the battle. But it was Murat’s cavalry that decided the struggle at this point, a mass of cuirassiers charging through the enemy and pouring victoriously into the open rear of the Redoubt.

The day was drawing to a close, but still the Russians held on obstinately to the ground between the villages of Gorki and Tzavero. The batteries of the Guard came galloping up from Schwardino and opened fire. The battle became an artillery duel which died away as the sun went down. Some thought it would be renewed at daybreak, and the Emperor congratulated himself that he still had the Imperial Guard intact. But when the sun rose it was seen that the enemy had retreated during the hours of darkness.

The battle had been terribly costly for both armies and both claimed it as a victory. The Russians had taken away with them some thousands of French prisoners, and thirteen captured guns as trophies of the stubborn fight. They had lost no less than 37 500 men killed and wounded, 31 per cent of the force engaged. Twenty-two of their generals were among the casualties of the day. Bagratio had been killed in the fight before Semenovskoi. Thirty Russian guns and 5000 prisoners had been left on the field.

The French - or rather the Imperial Army, for only half of it was French - had lost 24 500 killed and wounded and  7500 prisoners and missing. Thirty-one generals were killed or wounded. The peasants of the district had fled. The troops were exhausted, so very few of the dead were buried, and thousands od the wounded were left for days uncared for and died. Seven weeks after the battle, when the Russians, following up the French retreat, took possession again of the battlefield, they found it strewn with some 50 000 corpses and more than 30 000 dead horses, in all stages of decay, and for weeks burial parties were at work hiding these horrors out of sight.

The Russians call the battle Borodino, and its name is always commemorated in that of a battleship of their navy. They claim that Kutusoff’s splendid resistance wrecked the French Army and prepared the way for the disasters that so soon overtook it. Napoleon in his bulletin of victory called it battle of the Moskowa, perhaps wishing to recall the fact that it was fought to open the way to Moscow. He singled out Ney among all the marshals as the leader who had most largely contributed to the victory, and he rewarded him with a new title in his military peerage. Henceforth Michel Ney besides being Duc d’Elchingen, was also Prince de la Moskowa.

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

Caulaincourt chargeant à la tête de ses cuirassiers à la Moskowa, by Raymond Desvarreux

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Raymond DESVARREUX (detail)

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Soldado ingles con un fusil ametrallador Lewis. Por Raymond Desvarreux-Larpenteur. http://ift.tt/2plMcTn http://ift.tt/2IwxaTt

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Raymond Desvarreux - Les Défenseurs de l'Aigle

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Raymond DESVARREUX (detail)

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Raymond DESVARREUX

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Dispositivo de minas en el sector inglés. Autor Raymond Desvarreux-Larpenteur. Frecuentemente en la Gran Guerra, las minas eran activadas por medio de detonadores eléctricos a distancia, así, los ocupantes de las posiciones detonaban a voluntad las minas en el momento preciso, aumentando de ese modo su eficacia. http://ift.tt/2zIkmW6 http://ift.tt/2iUxcsg

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Granadero británico por Raymond Desvarreux (1876–1961) Dotado de varias granadas( grenade hand nº 1) incómodamente metidas bajo el correaje. Se aprecian también las cintas de tela necesarias para que la granada caiga de punta, condición necesaria para que estalle. En los múltiples bolsillos pectorales debe transportar los detonadores de las granadas así como la munición proyectora para lanzar granadas con el fusil que tiene a su lado, un SMLE dotado de mira lateral, al que ha reforzado la madera de la caña del guardamanos con cuerda, y que ya tiene dispuesta una rifle grenade nº 3 para su lanzamiento. http://ift.tt/2yRVCdC http://ift.tt/2zI6Ikp