PhD project

To be wounded in battle and healed in Napoleonic Europe
Nebiha Guiga

On May, 3rd 1809, in Eberlsberg, Lieutenant Pierre-Martin Pirquet of the Austrian imperial and royal army, received a bullet in the chest. Although he was abandoned on the battlefield and spent the night amongst corpses, he ultimately survived, and after four years of treatment, recovered. He tells of this experience in his diary[1].

This type of narrative has been the origin of this thesis, entitled ”To be wounded in battle and healed in Napoleonic Europe” (1805-1813). The aim of this work is to follow soldiers from the moment they are wounded in battle up until their recovery or death, thus enlarging the study of the experience of war beyond the sole short time of combat. Four battles of the 1805, 1809 and 1813 campaigns on the main theatre of operations are at the heart of this research: Austerlitz (December, 2nd 1805), Aspern-Essling (21-22 May 1809), Wagram (5-6 July 1809) and Leipzig (16-22 October 1813)....

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