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If anyone has a picture of GD Anne-François-Charles Trelliard I would appreciate you emailing it to me. Or sending me the link where it can be found.

Served in the French army as a commander of division of French dragoons.

The spelling of his name is given in three different variations:

Treilliard

Trelliard

Treilliard

I have seen French websites use all three versions of his name.

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Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Prinz Peters von Dennewitz

3. Husaren-Regiment, Reserve-Kavallerie, Preußischen Armee-Korps

Honarary CO of Garde-Ulanen Regiment, Garde-Grenadier Kavallerie

NWC Founding Member

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Anne-François-Charles Trelliard or Treillard or Treilhard, born 7 February 1764 – died 14 May 1832, joined the cavalry of the French Royal Army as a cadet gentleman in 1780. During the French Revolutionary Wars he fought in Germany and Holland, eventually rising in rank to become a general officer in 1799. He led a corps cavalry brigade at Austerlitz in the 1805 campaign. In the 1806-1807 campaign he fought at Saalfeld, Jena, and Pultusk.

Transferred to Spain in 1808, Trelliard led a dragoon division and participated in the third invasion of Portugal in 1810-1811. He commanded his dragoons at Majadahonda in 1812 and at Vitoria and the Pyrenees in 1813. His division was redeployed to eastern France for Emperor Napoleon's final futile campaign in 1814. After rallying to Napoleon during the Hundred Days, the Bourbons dismissed him from the army. Trelliard is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe. She is a He Monsieur!

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Well he certainly was not a she commanding a dragoon division. And many folks in Europe have feminine names. Not uncommon.

José María Olazábal for instance - a famous golfer.

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Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Prinz Peters von Dennewitz

3. Husaren-Regiment, Reserve-Kavallerie, Preußischen Armee-Korps

Honarary CO of Garde-Ulanen Regiment, Garde-Grenadier Kavallerie

NWC Founding Member

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But the most famous Lady Cav officer was in the Russi Armee!

The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars
by Nadezhda Durova

[The Cavalry Maiden]
I thought I'd share with you a few excerpts from a book I recently read, The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars by Nadezhda Durova, the first female officer in the Russian military. She disguised herself as a man and ran away from home to join the cavalry. Although she was from a well-to-do family and had a comfortable life, it is easy to see why she left. Women had very little freedom in 18th century Russia, especially upper-class women. They were chaperoned at all times, could not live or travel by themselves, and only certain activities (mostly sedate ones) were considered appropriate for them. Durova ruins her needlework, runs away at night to explore the woods, she "thirsted for dangers and longed to be surrounded by them." Although she does not mention this in her narrative, she did marry and bear a son, but returned to her father's house, presumably after some dispute with her husband. She ran away from her father's house at 23, not at 16 as she describes in her journals. Very little is known about her marriage; presumably she censored her journals because her readership would not accept a narrative about a runaway wife and mother.

Surprisingly, Durova's journals are less about disguising her sex than simply about serving in the cavalry during the Napoleonic Wars. Therefore this book is less of interest to feminists than to those who are interested in 18th and early 19th century cavalry warfare. It is an interesting snapshot of life in the military, which Durova describes as a great deal of marching, waiting, freezing, starving, and generally being uncomfortable, interspersed with periods of battle and rest and relaxation in the great houses in which the cavalry were quartered.

And two served in the Prussian army too. I believe one was in v.Lutzow's Freicorps.

I am thinking that a picture for Treillard is not forthcoming. Having a hard time finding one.

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Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Prinz Peters von Dennewitz

3. Husaren-Regiment, Reserve-Kavallerie, Preußischen Armee-Korps

Honarary CO of Garde-Ulanen Regiment, Garde-Grenadier Kavallerie

NWC Founding Member

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Bill ask the Napoleon Forum people.

Yes, did that today! Thought maybe I might get one of our great guys here to help me out. Instead got a Creole lecturing me on women in the military.

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Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Prinz Peters von Dennewitz

3. Husaren-Regiment, Reserve-Kavallerie, Preußischen Armee-Korps

Honarary CO of Garde-Ulanen Regiment, Garde-Grenadier Kavallerie

NWC Founding Member

For Club Games: I prefer the Single Phase mode of play. I prefer to play with the following options OFF:

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Imagine the epic movie based on Nadezhda Durova, picture 'Xena - Hussar Princess!'
With the added market share bought by the female lead, Napoleonic feature films will
never be the same.

Hello,

Here is what I found:

http://souvenirnapoleonien.blogspot.com ... -anne.html.

The face on the picture is not very clear, but I couldn't find anything better... hope it helps anyway.

Thanks - I found the same painting but I am not going to use it. It might just be a French dragoon and like you said the face is not very plain.

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Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Prinz Peters von Dennewitz

3. Husaren-Regiment, Reserve-Kavallerie, Preußischen Armee-Korps

Honarary CO of Garde-Ulanen Regiment, Garde-Grenadier Kavallerie

NWC Founding Member

For Club Games: I prefer the Single Phase mode of play. I prefer to play with the following options OFF:

MDF, VP4LC, NRO, MTD, CMR, PR, MIM, NDM, OMR (ver 4.07)