Authors: Adam Zamoyski
on Napoleon in battle 422
on regimental reunions 557
on retreat from Vilna 516
on stragglers 443
Bourgoing, Baron Lt Paul de 343, 442, 490, 515
Bourienne, Gen. Louis Antoine 351
Boyen, Major von 122
Bozhanov, I.S. 299
Brandt, Capt. Heinrich von 230, 466, 497, 498, 509
Braux (French grenadier) 341
Bréaut des Marlots, Jean 276
Brechtel, Capt. 486
Breton, Col. Auguste 426, 445
Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich xxi
Britain 74
British India 33–4
and Continental System 15, 32, 66–7, 69
French offer of peace to 107
Napoleon on 520–1
relations with Russia 24, 25, 29–31, 196, 228
war with France 5, 6, 11, 15–16, 32, 76, 103, 361, 545
war with United States 196, 524
Bro, Capt. Louis 356
Brucker, Col. 474
Brunswick-Oels, Duke of 51
Bruyère, Gen. 216
Bucharest, Treaty of 195
Bulgaria 125
Bulletins de la Grande Armée
145, 370, 495, 525
Burchell, William J. 78
Burke, Edmund 20
Busch, Capt. 466
Bussy, Jean Marc 469, 473
Buturlin, Dmitri Petrovich xvii, 292
Byron, Lord 555, 556
Calosso, Lt 88
Cambacérès, Jean-Jacques, Duc de 108, 525
Casabianca, Col. 402
Castellane, Boniface de: on deference of German royals to Napoleon 109
on ex-convict regiment 470
expects march to India 350
frostbite 498
on ineffectiveness of dismounted cavalry 355
Napoleon’s envoy to Nansouty 158, 165
on Narbonne 488
on Russian weather 389
on women with army 449
Castro, Col. de 472
Cathcart, Lord 388
Catherine, Grand Duchess: advises Alexander against leading army 126, 206–7, 246–7
Alexander’s correspondence with 37, 39, 70, 128, 331, 527
on fall of Moscow 313, 314
lovers of 120
marriage of 56
on Napoleon 28
regrets not being a man 198
as Russian cultural icon 64–5
and Russian Ministers 112, 113
on Tilsit 30
Catherine the Great, Empress 6, 17, 21–2, 211
Caulaincourt, Armand Augustin Louis, Duc de Vicence 133, 159, 195, 196, 227, 228, 297–8
accompanies Napoleon during retreat 407, 408, 420
on
communications between Moscow and Paris 338
doubts advisability of war 92, 229, 351–2
French ambassador in St Petersburg 33–4, 37, 59, 61, 71
on fall of Minsk 458
on gravity of French position 305, 380
on lack of organisation during retreat 418
Master of the Horse 100, 356, 357, 394
on mood of troops 481
on Napoleon’s courage 460
in Napoleon’s entourage 146–7, 218
on Napoleon’s fear of encirclement 438
on Napoleon’s hopes for United States 524
and Napoleon’s marriage plans 56, 57
on Napoleon’s shortcomings 234, 307, 419
on Ney 425, 438, 439
on plight of cavalry horses 176
recalled 72–4
refuses to go to St Petersburg 307
relations with Alexander 69
on respect of troops for Napoleon 455
returns to Paris with Napoleon 496, 520–2, 524–5
on transportation of wounded 380
on Vilna as promised land 500
Caulaincourt, Gen. Auguste de 278
Chambray, Georges de 272, 301
Champagny, Jean-Baptiste de, Duc de Cadore 55, 60–1, 76
Chamski, Tadeusz Józef 162
Chapelle, Col. A. 479
Charles, Archduke of Austria 50, 51
Charles IV, King of Spain 36
Charles XII, King of Sweden 92, 153. 193.337
Charles XIII, King of Sweden 65
Châteaubriand. René de 555
Chernyshev, Col. Aleksandr Ivanovich 72, 83, 106–7, 312 359
Chetvertakov, Yermolai 329
Chevalier, Jean-Michel 230, 234, 341, 450
Chichagov, Admiral Pavel Vasilievich 195, 251, 359
army numbers 589n
attacks French at Berezina 472, 478–80
Bagration’s correspondence with 239, 240
Balkan uprising plan of 125, 128
Borisov falls to 459
duped at Berezina crossing 464, 469, 470, 494
forces in south 195, 412
issues description of Napoleon 438
Minsk falls to 437–8, 458
in pursuit of French retreat 433, 436, 458, 461
Chicherin, Lt Aleksandr V. 295, 324, 360, 494, 500
Chłapowski, Dezydery 342
Chopin, Col. 398
Clarke, Gen. Henri Jacques, Duc de Feltre 87, 158
Clary, Désirée 65
Clary, Julie 65
Clausewitz, Karl von xx, 238
arrest for spying 170–1
on Berezina 480
on Borodino 280
on foreigners 250
on Kutuzov 250, 273, 287, 525
on ‘motionless obstinacy’
of Russian soldier 231
negotiates with Prussians 535
on retreat from Moscow 333
on role of weather 523
on Russian rearguard 240
on Smolensk 214, 235
on state of Russian army 317
on strength of Russian strategy 208
takes service in Russia 122
on Vitebsk 567n
Code Napoléon
45, 58
Coignet, Lt Jean-Roch 309
Colbert, Gen. 349
Combe, Lt Julien 136, 220, 232, 261, 297, 399, 405, 450, 514
Compans, Gen. Jean-Dominique, Count 101, 190, 254, 268, 344–5, 373, 523
Confederation of the Rhine 11, 42, 44–5, 49, 86
Confederation of Warsaw 164, 195
Conrady, Lt Col. von 224
Constant (Louis Constant Wairy, Napoleon’s valet) 455, 460, 482, 496
Constant, Benjamin 53
Constantine, Grand Duke 20, 542
candidate for Polish throne 72
hatred of Barclay 121, 169, 219–20, 245
pessimism after Smolensk 247
pride in parades 120–1, 126, 526
profiteering 320
rejoins army 435
treatment of prisoners 403, 531
victory celebrations 432
Constantinople 21, 34, 37, 229, 350, 554
Continental System 15, 46, 48, 55, 66–7, 69–70, 73, 75, 83, 136, 320, 344
Corbineau, Gen. Jean-Baptiste 461
Corneille, Pierre 7
Corvisart, Dr Jean Nicolas 2, 3–4
Crimea xviii, 20, 25
Czaplic, Gen. Evfemii 462, 463–5, 470–1, 473, 494, 515
Czartoryski, Prince Adam Jerzy 68–9, 70, 74, 126
Dabrowski, Gen. Jan Henryk 438, 457, 458, 459, 472
Danzig 138, 139, 144, 158, 527, 535
Daru, Count Pierre 135, 458, 485
Davidov, Lt Denis 63, 327–8, 402, 436, 440, 547, 551
Davout, Marshal Louis-Nicolas, Prince d’Eckmühl 84, 96, 196, 234, 417–18, 562n, 570n
baton captured 431
at Borodino 254, 257–8, 268, 270, 272, 275, 282
commander in Germany 71, 80, 87
Corps of,
see
Grande Armée: 1st Corps;
as good commander 357
joins up with Napoleon 138
in Moscow 346
as possible king of Poland 133
on progress of campaign 155
relations with Jérôme 168
retreat from Moscow 386–7
on Russian climate 352
on significance of campaign 235
victory claimed by 523
Debowski, Ignacy 541
Decembrist Rising (1825) xvi, 335
Déchy, Édouard 325–6
Dedem de Gelder, Gen. Baron Antoine-Baudouin van 192, 222, 301, 378, 399, 412
Dejean, Gen. 88, 89
Delzons, Gen. Alexis Joseph 373
infantry division of 177, 178, 268, 275, 371, 373
Dembinski, Lt Henryk 349, 350
Deroy, Gen. Erasmus 144, 191, 308
Derzhavin, Gavril Romanovich 64
Desaix, Gen. 268
Diebitsch, Gen. Johann 535
Dnieper river 207, 209, 211, 213, 214, 427–9
Dokhturov, Gen. Dmitri Sergeievich 207, 214, 219–20, 274, 291, 316, 371, 494
Doreille, Col. 87
Dornberg, Col. 50
Dorogobuzh 214, 236, 238, 277, 390, 404, 407, 409, 570–1n
Dorokhov, Gen. Ivan Semyonovich 328
Dostoevsky, Fyodor:
Crime and Punishment
556–7
Doumerc, Gen. 472
Dresden 109–10, 130, 134, 524, 546
Drissa 125, 170–2, 176, 203
Dubois, Dr Antoine 2, 3
Dubrovna 424, 438
Ducor, Henri 179, 187, 500, 530
Dumas, Gen. Mathieu, Count 96, 135, 193, 519
Dumonceau, Capt. François 97, 368, 381, 385, 390, 496–7
Dunaburg 194
Dupont, Gen. Pierre 35, 92
Dupuy, Lt Victor 161, 399
Durnovo, Nikolai Dmitrievich 334, 363
Duroc, General Geraud Christophe, Duc de Frioul 92, 196, 222, 229, 458, 496
Durova, Nadezhda A. 332
Dushenkievich, Lt D.V. 237, 266, 335–6
Dutheillet de la Mothe, Aubin 188
Duverger, B.T. 343, 401, 441, 455
Eblé, Gen. Jean-Baptiste 148, 217, 461, 463, 477–8, 533
Edling, Countess Roxanne 206, 315
Elbing 144
Elizabeth, Empress of Russia 30, 432
Elster river 546
Emil, Prince of Hesse 487
Engelhardt, Pavel Ivanovich 323
Enghien, Louis Antoine de Bourbon-Condé, Duc d’ 6, 23
Eremenko, Stepan 329
Erfürt 35–7, 38, 48, 56
Ertel, Gen. 119
Essen, Gen. Ivan Nikolaevich 534
Essling.Battle of 38, 51, 261
Eugène, Prince,
see
Beauharnais, Eugène de
Eugene. Prince of Württemberg 70fn, 274, 287
Everts, Major Henri Pierre 135, 185, 444
Eylau, Battle of 27, 63, 119
Eysmont, Józef 162
Faber du Faur, G. de 391, 584n
Fabvier, Col. Étienne 261
Fain, Baron Agathon Jean François 157, 193
on Napoleon’s complexion 14
on Napoleon’s departure on campaign
108
on Napoleon’s obsession with Continental System 70
on Napoleon’s relations with commanders 90, 196, 305
on Napoleon’s state of mind 131, 227, 374
returns to Paris with Napoleon 496
on Russian peasant soldiers 212
Fantin des Odoards, Capt. Louis Florimond 149
on ball in Vilna 165
on Battle of Smolensk 218
confidence in Napoleon 350
on misery of troops 222
in Moscow 296, 298, 303, 343
Faré, Lt Charles A. 217, 233
Fath Ali, Shah 34
Faure, Dr Raymond 177–8, 220, 281, 404
Ferrières, Gen. 352
Fesch, Joseph, Cardinal 554
Fezensac, Raymond, Duc de: on Borodino 254, 261
on Kremlin parade 364
losses suffered by regiment of 418, 427, 487
on Ney 428
on stragglers 386
on thieving 483
on wounded 379
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb 49, 545
Fiéreck, Col.451
Figes, Orlando xvi
Figner, Aleksandr Samoilovich 328, 387, 402, 440
Fili 290
Finland 37, 65, 66, 68, 103, 104, 119, 131, 247