Report from Marshal Alexander Berthier to Napoleon

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1813

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A report dated Dresden 14 May 1813 from Marshal Berthier to Napoleon with details of cavalry depots in Germany, on which Napoleon has written five lines of text in is own hand, naming General of Division, Baron Margaron as commander of the cavalry deport in Hanua.

During the month of May Napoleon was to celebrate two victories, one at Lutzen on the 2nd and then again at Bautzen on the 20th but five months later he would suffer a crushing defeat at the Battle of Leipzig..

Translation of Napoleon’s writing:

The general of brigade Margaron

to command the depot at

Hanau. I will name another

officer for the depots

at Weymar and Jena

NP