Authors: Adam Zamoyski
84th 442
85th 138
127th 225
2nd Polish Infantry 220
Polish Lancers 473
6th 146
Portuguese Legion 87, 308, 384, 472, 473
3rd Portuguese Regiment 472
Swiss 87, 308, 406, 469, 472, 473
5th Tirailleurs 472
GENERAL:
advance into Russia map 167, 190
artillery 156–7, 192–3, 215, 260, 355, 383–4, 395, 419–20, 467, 487, 513, 518
assembling of troops 80, 84–7, 97, 100
attitude towards enemy 215, 231–2, 295, 348
battle casualties 227, 287–8, 373, 427, 440, 473, 480, 536
bivouacs 348–9
booty 365–7, 392. 395–6, 414, 441, 448–9, 487, 514
camp followers 94, 101, 143–4, 365, 367, 385, 414–15, 418, 449, 468, 474–5, 535, 562n
cannibalism 484–6, 529
cantinières 94–5, 233, 303, 349, 390, 461, 468–9, 475, 478, 490
commissariat 96, 100–1, 194
deserters 138, 142, 163, 190, 309, 310, 386, 413–14, 440, 536
discipline 163, 191, 418, 488, 584n
dispositions, July 1812 140–50,
map 141
effects of cold 351–2, 368–9, 389–94, 408, 415, 439–40, 446, 482, 496–8, 505, 516, 523
entrapped 432–3
food shortages 136, 138, 161, 185, 233, 259, 262, 277, 282, 308, 349, 359, 397–401, 448–9, 483
foreign contingents 84–7, 449, 489, 532, 537
fortitude and solidarity in adversity 486–91, 516
frostbite 447–8, 451, 482, 489, 498, 509, 512, 516, 532
horses 96–7, 138, 156–7, 158, 188–9, 281, 308, 339, 355, 357, 383–4, 394–5, 400, 409, 439, 448, 491, 537
lice 452, 455, 509
looting 137, 161–3, 185, 228, 299–304, 323, 340, 514, 517
losses during advance 138, 156–8, 184, 185, 187–8, 190–1, 213, 310
losses during retreat 409, 411, 418, 471–2, 480, 498–500, 518, 584n
losses, total 536–7, 594–5n
on march 98–9, 101–2, 181–91, 232–4
medical service 194, 283–4
moral degeneration 453–4, 482–6
morale 101, 181, 196, 359, 375, 378–9, 383, 389, 393, 411, 412, 416–18, 438–9, 469, 472–4, 493
in occupied areas 309–10, 321–2, 325–6
officers 90–1, 101, 229, 396, 487, 489, 507, 509
officers’
servants 399, 490
physical deterioration 439–43, 446–54, 457, 482, 494
pontoneers 148, 461, 463–7, 477, 540
provisioning and foraging 82–3, 99, 135–8, 144–5, 155, 157–8, 174, 184–6, 321–2, 325, 351, 359, 397, 408, 491
psychological degeneration 499, 511–12, 533
quality of troops 88–91, 375
reinforcements 311–12, 418, 502, 504–6, 536
Russian prisoners of 384, 404
sappers 463–4, 467
sickness 138, 158, 186–8, 277, 308, 408, 533, 536
snow blindness 498
suicides 138, 190, 482
survival rate 537–40, 594n
thieving in 401–2, 449–50, 482–3
thirst 187, 446–7
transport 96–7, 135, 144
treasury convoy 487, 513–14
troop numbers 127–8, 140–3, 258, 368, 373, 409, 418, 493, 536, 581n, 584n
uniforms and kit 97–9, 183, 191, 259, 391–2, 450–1, 482–3
winter quarters 407, 408–9
wounded 283–4, 311, 353–4, 370, 379–80, 384, 391, 408, 418, 426, 473, 486, 488, 515, 529–30
Grawenreuth, Capt. von 513
Grech, Nikolai I. 64
Griois, Col. Lubin: at Borodino 278
on cold 497
on conditions of retreating troops 449–52, 478, 484
on crossing of Vop 410
on entry into Vilna 508
on French departure from Moscow 367
on horses lost 157
at Maloyaroslavets 374
on morale 389, 440
in Moscow 344
reaches Vilna 506
state of feet 509
on superstition of Russian soldiers 231
Grodno 162, 166
Grolmann, Karl von 52
Grossbeeren, Battle of 546
Grouchy, Émmanuel, Gen. Marquis de 162, 459
3rd Cavalry Corps of 157, 158, 278, 279, 349
Grüber, Carl Johann 181
Grünberg, Major 465–6
Gudin, Gen. Charles Étienne, Count 216, 225
Guerinais, Capt. de la 481
Guilleminot, Gen. Armand 217
Gumbinnen 145, 519
Gustav IV, King of Sweden 65
Gzhatsk 235, 251, 258, 353–4, 383, 386
Habsburgs 20, 41, 44, 51
Hammerstein, Gen. 442
Hanau, Battle of 546
Hardenberg, Count Karl August von 47, 52, 54
Haxo, Gen. François Nicolas, Baron 146, 298
Hazlitt, William 130
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 43
Heine, Heinrich 43, 555
Henckens, Lt J.L. 304, 356
Hitler, Adolf xx
Hofer, Andreas 51
Hogendorp, Gen. Dirk van 308, 310, 501–4, 505–8, 512, 592n
Hölderlin, Friedrich 42
Holy Roman Empire 41, 42, 54
Hortense, Queen of Holland 4
Hosking, Geoffrey 20
Hugo, Victor 555
Humboldt, Wilhelm von 47
Hungary 125
India 6, 33, 102, 106, 350
Inkovo 209
Irriberrigoyen, Sgt 516–17
Italy 11, 41, 96, 125, 311, 540
Ivan IV (the Terrible), Tsar of Russia 20
Izvestia iz Armii 334
Jackowski, Michal 321
Jacqueminot, Col. 464
Jena, Battle of 26, 35, 43, 48–9, 122
Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia,
see
Bonaparte, Jérôme
Jesuits 126
Jews 136, 189–90, 199, 233, 448, 551, 568n, 592–3n
Jomini, Gen. Antoine Henri, Baron 461
Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain,
see
Bonaparte, Joseph
Josephine, Empress of France 56
Junot, Gen. Jean Andoche, Duc d’Abrantès: at Borodino 258, 268, 270
defeated at Vimiero 35
letter to mistress 339
at Smolensk 213
at Valutina Gora 223–4, Westphalian Corps of, see Grande Armée: 8th Corps
Kaisarov, Col. 250
Kaliachitsky, Nikolai Mikhailovich 204
Kaluga 199, 240, 288, 305, 319, 330, 333, 354, 360, 373, 375, 523
Kamen 482
Kamenny Island 330
Karamzin, Nikolai Mikhailovich 65, 243
Karpov, Capt. A.K. 550
Katt, Frederick Charles de 50
Kerner, Col. von 391
Kharkievich, Vladimir Ivanovich xix
Kharkov 240
Kleist, Gen. Friedrich von 546
Kleist, Heinrich von:
Die Hermannschlacht
50
Kniaziewicz, Gen. Karol 472
Kobryn 194, 203
Kobylinski, Col. 487–8
Kochelev, Rodion 62
Kolocha river 252, 255, 266, 268, 275
Kolotskoie monastery 254, 284, 311, 353–4, 379, 476
Königsberg 144, 158, 493, 514, 518, 533–4
Konovnitsin, Gen. Piotr Petrovich: at Borodino 271, 274
on cannibalism 484
division of 178
favours offensive action 291, 375, 422
hostility towards Kutuzov 388
as Kutuzov’s chief of staff 360, 370
in rearguard 236, 240
Konshin, Ensign N. 236
Korytnia 186, 212–13, 420, 426
Kovno 146, 149, 151, 158, 493, 510, 518, 520, 530, 534
Kozhina, Vasilisa 329
Kozlovsky, G.A. 341
Krasinski, Lt Józef 449, 456, 460
Krasinski, Gen. Wincenty 342
Krasnaia Pakhra 331
Krasny 212, 231, 420–2, 434, 440, 526
maps 421, 423, 428
Kudashev, Prince Nikolai 250
Kügelgen, Wilhelm von 544
Külm, Battle of 546
Kurakin, Prince Aleksandr Borisovich 33, 61, 72, 75–6, 106–7, 159
Kursk 240
Kurz, Capt. von 281, 400, 474, 482–4
Kutaisov, Gen. Aleksandr Ivanovich 273, 274, 287
Kutuzov, Field Marshal Prince Mikhail Ilarionovich: accused of cowardice 332,
364, 376
accused of treason 361–2
age and poor health 435
at Borodino 252–4, 255–7, 262, 266, 273—5, 280, 574n
calls on German nation to rise 527
caution of 436
command style 250, 359–60, 362
as commander-in-chief 248–9, 331
commander St Petersburg militia 246
commander Turkish front 104, 125
council of war to decide fate of Moscow 290–2, 575n
death of 545
entourage of 250–1
falls back on Moscow 288–90
inactivity 358–9, 362, 364, 371, 376, 381, 387–8, 422, 432, 435
informed of French retreat from Moscow 371
joins armies 249
at Krasny 422, 424
at Maloyaroslavets 371, 374–5
meeting with Lauriston 361–2
military career 25
in Moscow 293
motives of 435–6, 525
personality 250
popular clamour in favour of 246–7
as Prince of Smolensk 433
proclamations 435
pursues French retreat 381, 412, 422, 433, 436, 460, 494
relations with Alexander 25–6, 246–7, 312–13, 432–3, 526
relations with commanders 249–50, 317, 332, 360, 388, 432, 434, 494, 526
reluctant to defend Moscow 290–2, 300
retreat from Moscow 331–2, map 333
in Russian historiography xvii, xix, xx
sacrifices Moscow to save army 289
sanctions partisan groups 328
Schwarzenberg describes as donkey 523
on state of army 251
at Tarutino 332–6, 354, 359–61
treatment of prisoners 404, 445
victories claimed by 285–7, 312, 363, 375, 431, 525–6
in Vilna 525–6
Labaume, Eugène 147, 157, 303, 379fn, 396, 401, 415, 453, 479, 507
Ladi 424, 448
maps 421, 423, 428
La Flise, Dr N.D. de 284, 354, 397, 417, 442, 531
Lagneau, Dr Louis V. 356, 454, 482, 496, 509
La Harpe, Frédéric César de 22
Lambert, Marquis Charles 122
Landor, Walter Savage 555
Langeron, L.A., Gen. Comte de 122, 329, 462, 485, 495, 499
Lannes, Marshal Jean, Duc de Montebello 51
Lanskaia, Varvara Ivanovna 203
Lanskoy, Sergei 328, 329
Lariboisière, Gen. Jean Ambroise, Comte de 355, 383–4, 517, 533
Laroche, Col. von 477
Larrey, D.J., Dr Baron 301, 342, 354, 379, 426, 489, 499
Latour-Maubourg, Gen. Victor Nicolas de 278
4th Cavalry Corps of 278, 422
Laugier, Cesare de Bellecour de 100, 261, 365, 389, 417, 440, 506
Laurencin, Jacques 400
Lauriston, Gen. Marquis Jacques Law de: ambassador in St Petersburg 72, 77
captured at Leipzig 546
meeting with Kutuzov 348, 361–2
seeks audience with Tsar 130, 145, 307, 381
Lavrov, Gen. Nikolai Ivanovich 220
Lecoq, Adj. 156
Ledru, Gen. François Roch 268
Lefèbvre, Marshal 51, 383, 516
Leipzig, Battle of 546
Leissnig, Sub-Lt 299
Lejeune, Col. Louis François 298
on cold 497
on condition of troops 453, 454, 482, 486, 489
in Moscow 346
on Napoleon’s state of mind 272, 416
on quality of troops 88, 149
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich xix
Leppich (German charlatan) 243
Le Roy, Major Claude-François 395, 447
Lesseps, Jean-Baptiste de 338