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Persoonlijke gegevens Hindrik Jan Langejans 

• Hij is geboren op 6 december 1795 in Laar, Graafschap Bentheim, Hanover, Preussen.
• Beroep: Napoleon's Army.
• Hij is overleden op 17 april 1889 in Laar, Dld, hij was toen 93 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven op 20 april 1889 in Laar, Dld.
• Een kind van Hindrik Langejans
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 7 mei 2012.

Gezin van Hindrik Jan Langejans

Hij is getrouwd met Altien van den Steenheuvel.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 3 december 1821 te Laar, Dld, hij was toen 25 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Jennigen Langejans  1822-1896
2. Gezina Langejans  1824-????
3. Hendrik Jan Langejans  1826-???? 
4. Albert Langejans  1829-1829
5. Ultien Langejans  1833-????
6. Jan Langejans  1836-1883 

Notities over Hindrik Jan Langejans

OUR GREAT GRANDFATHER with NAPOLEON in 1812
(by Albertha Bratt -Aug 1983)
Napoleon Bonaparte, a manshort of stature, not only ruled over France, but early in 1812 worked at full pressure to get conscripts not only from France, but from every corner of Europe: Prussia, Bavaria, the Netherlands, Spain, Poland,
Switzerland, Denmark, and Italy. He was forty-two years old.
Our great grandfather, Hendrik Jan Langejans was a seventeen year old youth at this time, born in 1795 in Laar, Graafschaft Bentheim, Province of Hanover, Prussia. He joined a regiment numbering 15,000 men. What an experience this must have
been for a farm boy from a small village. How hard to stand up for his Lord and Saviour when so many cursed that Name.
The troops looked warlike and proud as they met together in Dresden, Prussia in May. Bells pealed, cannons boomed, and Napoleon appeared in person. Every house was filled with soldiers who talked, laughed, and swore in nearly every European
language. The Grand Army numbering more than a half million (600,000) had three main divisions: Napoleon in personal command of Div. I; stepson Eugene over Div. II; and brother Jerome over Div. III. They had famous marshalls: Ney, Oudinot,
and Murat. There were tremendous quantities of supplies: 100,000 horses, grain from 12 countries, 15,000 tons of flour, 2 million hard biscuits, fodder for the horses, vast quantities of wine from Italy, 1300 cannons, and for each corporal -
pontoons and two trainloads of portable bridges to cross swiftly flowing rivers.
Napoleon had ability to sway men with his personality. At Dresden, he would seek homage from his tributaries, impress his allies with the magnitude of his authority. He would advance this summer to Smolensk and he informed the Austrians to
wait for the economic burden of an army of occupation to bring Tsar Alexander to his senses. At first, the Tsar was overcome by Napoleon's spell, but later became his implacable enemy. Napoleon had ability to amass knowledge, keep it at hand
in his memory. At the Paris Military Academy, he had studied the tactics of the Greeks, Romans, Arabs, and English. He made plans for his campaign as early as August 1811. His librarian was instructed to get good books for him with the best
information regarding Russian topography, about marshes, rivers, woods, roads, etc. His wives were Josephine, who bore him no sons and whom he divorced; and Mary Louise of Austria. Their son was called the "King of Rome".
Meanwhile, the Tsar, who had only an army of 150,000 men to Napoleon's 600,000, rallied the whole nation against the invaders whom he labeled "madmen". Said he, "Let us not risk our forces and leave our climate and winter to fight this war for
us."
The Grand Army, as they marched through Poland, found conditions very poor in the peasants' homes. In six weeks, they traveled 1000 miles and were 400 miles from St Petersburg, 500 miles from Moscow. On the 24th of June, they crossed the
Nieman River into Russia. A violent thunderstorm broke out, there was heavy rain causing heavy losses to horses and other livestock and brought wide spread illness to the troops. Four-fifths of the army subsisted on the flesh of exhausted,
starving cattle and drank brackish liquid scooped from stinking wells and putrid ponds. So within two or three days after crossing the Nieman, the infantry were ravaged by dysentery, ague, and typhus.
Napoleon was visited by the Tsar's representative, Balatov, to call off the war, but Napoleon refused. After repeated urging by Napoleon, the Tsar refused unless Napoleon would retreat from Russian soil. The Russian soldiers had great bodily
strength; they were inured to extremes of weather and hardship, to bad and scanty amounts of food, could endure marches of four days and nights, and were devoted to the Sovereign and country.
The French considered themselves to be superior to the other soldiers and much bickering resulted. French soldiers were quick at scrounging for provisions, could put up with only a few hours of sleep, and could keep up with the movement of the
regiment while the Prussians took much more time to find food, wanted to cook everything properly, and felt they needed more sleep. As a result, they were late, could not overtake their regiment which had received orders in advance. The
temperament of the Prussians was not suited to this foraging with the same cunning, speed, self-sacrifice, comraderie displayed by the French.
The main army under Napoleon encountered no real opposition, met only a thin chain of Russian cavalry. He hoped for a battle near Vilna, forced the pace of his men, but had poor roads, sultry heat, torrential thunderstorms, lowered morale
while ten thousand horses were killed, their vehicles stuck in the mud or floundered in the ruts left by the guns. At every march - hunger, diarrhea, and dysentery laid men low.

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