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Lesser Front Duty on a Lesser Front Rob McLaRen Duty on a Lesser Front Acknowledgements I sincerely thank the following people who generously enabled the creation of this book: This paperback edition published in 2019. Andrew Koranski Leida McLaren Lulu Publishing — www.lulu.com and Jan Couper Camilla Woods Mark Brady Copyright © 2017 Dylan Trust Christopher Kelly Robert McLaren asserts the moral right to be identified as the Mark Brewer author of this work. Daniel Burns Mathieu Degryse This novel is a work of fiction. The incidents and some of the characters Daniel Flemming Matthew Reeves portrayed in it, while based on real historical events and figures, are the David Matthews work of the author’s imagination. Michael Crowe Dominic Cook All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, Michael Hunzel stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, Donald Maclean Peter Cross electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without Eva Servais the prior written permission of the publishers and copyright holders. Richard Marsden Frances Gates A CiP record for this book is available from the National Library of Richard Parkes Genevieve Rea Australia and the State Library of Queensland. Rodney Cocks Graeme Hopgood Text and illustration copyright © 2018 Rob McLaren Sandra Pope Graphic Design, typesetting and map illustrations by Matthew Lin Grant Danby www.matthewlin.com.au Simon Coburn Jo Wilson Paperback ISBN 978-0-6484-716-3-9 Judy Clarke Souella and Keith Walker E-book ISBN 978-0-6484-716-4-6 Hardcover ISBN 978-0-6484-716-5-3 Karl Schlobohm Steven M. Smith Typeset in Bembo Semibold 12 pt Duty on a Lesser Front Duty on a Lesser Front Maps Appendices Southern France – Avignon to Nice Page 6 Appendix A Author’s Notes Operations of the Army of Italy – April 1794 Page 40 Appendix B Bibliography Skirmish at Ponte di Nava Page 86 Appendix C Chronology of Historical Events Appendix D Ready Reference – Military Organisations Operations of the Army of Italy – June 1794 Page 136 Appendix E Ready Reference – Measurement Conversion Operations of the Army of Italy – Page 156 September 1794 Appendix F Dramatis Personae – Army of Italy Skirmish at Dego Page 163 Appendix G Dramatis Personae – 24th Chasseurs à Cheval Ambush Page 278 Appendix H Dramatis Personae – 2nd Squadron Operations of the Army of Italy – Page 304 Appendix I Dramatis Personae – André Jobert’s Family July 1795 Appendix J Dramatis Personae – Avignon Operations of the Army of Italy – Page 374 November 1795 Skirmish north of Savona Page 411 AVIGNON Paris 700 km To Genoa 200 km Lyon 250 km Valence 150 km NICE CANNES Rhone River AIX-EN-PROVENCE AUBAGNE MARSEILLE REVEST SOLLIES AVIGNON TOULON TO NICE 0 10 20 30 40 50 W E Scale of Kilometres MEDITERRANEAN SEA S ded solemnly before turningded solemnlybefore tomount. moving. barely histhickglove ofhis maining fingers right hand, re rapidly withthethree Hemadethesignofcross grave. returned the to and his eyes a sigh with returnedpresent the to Duck face buriedice-encrustedin an scarf. his lower silent pines, theblack, towards blankly Duckstared since childhoodasDuck. loudinthecrisp air. overly thenoiseseemed grass andsnorting aplumeofthicksteam, dry cracklingthefrozen atthecrust ofsnow, the horsespawed metres. hundred boughs withinafew restricted granite tothefrozen vision was andthesnow-laden Jobert’s far below. Allier valley the the MassifCentralacross ofthewesternheights view any removing sides, mountains’ the The thickcloudsblanketed slopes thatsurrounded him. snow-covered still, to the grave fresh grandfather’s his marked Jobert’s and Duck’s eyes locked for a moment. Jobert nod- Jobert foramoment. locked eyes andDuck’s Jobert’s known amanhehadonly ever tohiscompanion, looked Jobert When oneof sound. any drifting muted The slowly snow thecairn that upfrom rocks ofblack looked André Jobert January 1794, Auvergne,France January 1794, Chapter One Chapter 7 - Rob McLaren Duty on a Lesser Front A pulse of breeze rising from the valley floor whistled spectacles to the faces illuminated by the flickering fire, ‘And here through the pine-needles and swirled the snow in the air. The in one room are all those beneficiaries. two horsemen let their horses pick their steps down the brittle, ‘To understand Jacques’ estate, we need to understand rocky slope, away from Jacques Chauvel’s grave, to the huddled Jacques’ story. farms shrouded in the mist below. ‘Jacques and his brother had served as gunners in the 2nd Regiment of Foot Artillery since they were eighteen. After Fontenoy in 1745, the regiment’s commander was determined to provide his regiment twenty horses a year, sufficient to provide teams for half a battery. With the Colonels’ family holding three-hundred acres of steep, rocky slopes in the Auvergne, the Colonel tasked Jacques and his brother with With candles placed about his papers and quill and ink ready, raising twenty horses on this unproductive country. This land Yann Chauvel looked up to see the last of the dinner plates grant is known to our family as the Old Farm. and salvers being cleared from the long, ancient table. The four ‘The demand for horses grew when France went to war remaining members of Yann’s family settled into their chairs in against Prussia in 1756, and the one-hundred-and-twenty-acre the warm, smoky air of the dark, stone room. With extra tim- New Farm was granted to the brothers to double the output ber piled beside the hearth and a fresh pot of coffee set upon of horses to forty per annum, or sufficient caisson and limber the table, the servants retired from the room. teams for one battery. Following the war, the Colonel pur- Yann’s daughter, Michelle, a tall, slim woman in early twenties, chased the one-hundred acres we now know as the Lower her long hair pinned up into trusses, curls bobbing on her nape, Flats, pasture able to carry greater stocking levels, specifically draped a knitted blanket across the waist of her great aunt for brood mares. Sophie. The elderly Sophie flapped a bony hand, tut-tutting ‘To provide forty three-year-old horses for regimental service that such a fuss would be made but raised her slender arms to requires a herd of forty-five three-year-old and fifty two- year- allow Michelle to tuck the blanket cosily. old colts under work, a herd of fifty-five yearlings and a herd Didier gave his younger brother, André, a wink as he poured of sixty-five pregnant mares with sixty foals-at-foot, let alone brandy from a dark-glassed bottle into the wooden cups of stallions, cart and saddle horses. Yann, Michelle, André and his own. Aunt Sophie would take a ‘So, in the thirty-five years from when the herd started, small splash of brandy in her coffee. until 1780 when my service with the 5th Chasseurs ended, and ‘The last will and testament of my father … of Jacques Chau- I took up management of the farm, Jacques and his brother had vel,’ said Yann in German, gruffly stroking his stubbly, weathered a built up a herd of two-hundred-and-eighty horses based on jowl, ‘directs the division of his estate into thirds. One-third five-hundred-and-twenty acres. to his sister Sophie, one-third to myself and one-third to the ‘Over that time, a workforce of over forty men has been children of his daughter,’ Yann looked over his wire-frame established; fifteen herdsmen to care for mares and foals, an- 8 9 Rob McLaren Duty on a Lesser Front other ten herdsmen to monitor the yearlings and fifteen train- regimental seamstress at the age of fourteen, Aunt Sophie built ers to school the colts. These herdsmen and horsemen are both up a factory of local women in Clermont-Ferrand by 1748. from local families and amputee veterans from my …,’ Yann The Prussian war enabled further workhouses in Orléans by waved his hand inclusively to Didier and André, ‘our old regi- 1757 and Paris by 1761. Michelle added a second workhouse ment. That herd, land and workforce has been maintained until in Paris last year. All these properties are completely owned this day.’ by Sophie, in her brother’s name, of course. After costs, and Yann paused to savour his brandy. the investment in the new workhouse, the net profit from seam- ‘In 1790, with the changes sweeping France, the Colonel’s stressing contributes to the farm’s loan repayments equivalent family chose to sell the land to Jacques prior to departing to the sale of ten extra horses per annum. Up to this point, abroad. Understandably, we acquired the land at a low price, this transfer of monies has been a long-standing arrangement but the interest rates from the lenders were high. That loan between Jacques and Sophie.’ has a term of twenty years. The ownership of the land is held Thanking Didier for refilling his cup with a nod, Yann against the volume of the herd. The land is valued greater than swirled a gulp of brandy in his mouth before continuing. the herd, so a bridging loan at an extreme rate of interest, is ‘A third venture has been undertaken in the last year. The also held to cover the difference. Republic’s demand for cartage to supply the armies, and the ‘Until the bridging loan is repaid, we cannot claim owner- subsequent income, cannot be ignored. So, under the manage- ship of the land,’ Yann continued, looking across to Michelle, ment of the Garnier family, we are expanding in this area based as she stoked the fire, adding three small logs, ‘Any financial on our forty-five-odd herd of three-year-old colts.’ shock, and 1793 just past, has threatened more than a few, will André reflected that the Garnier family had cared for the have our lenders pull the rug from under us.
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