Authors: Adam Zamoyski
31.
Fantin des Odoards, 340;
Lettres Interceptées
, 157–9.
32.
Castellane, I/165; Thirion, 215–16; Fantin des Odoards, 321–2.
33.
Chambray, II/205; Belliard, I/112.
34.
Bourienne, IX/120; see also Caulaincourt, I/315.
35.
Caulaincourt, II/26, 42, 56, 65; Bloqueville, III/181.
36.
Fain,
Manuscrit, II
/151–2; Napoleon,
Corr. Inédite
(1925), V/595.
37.
Beyle, Corr.
Gen
., II/383; Dumas, III/447, 455, 456; Napoleon,
Correspondance
, XXIV/264; Denniée, 105; Larrey, IV/79; La Flise, LXXII/58.
38.
Napoleon,
Correspondance
, XXIV/261, 235–8; Caulaincourt, II/73.
39.
Napoleon,
Correspondance
, XXIV/275; Planat de la Faye, 92; Fain,
Manuscrit
, II/162; Ségur, V/90, maintains that Napoleon was afraid the Russians would treat abandoned guns, even if spiked, as trophies.
40.
Castellane, I/169.
41.
Marbot, III/162–3.
42.
Ibid., 161–2; Chlapowski, 128.
43.
Henckens, 140;
Lettres Interceptées
, 61.
44.
Bro, 119.
45.
Lagneau, 219; Pion des Loches, 306.
46.
Grabowski, 7; Henckens, 152; Fain,
Manuscrit
, II/157.
1.
Shishov, 288–9; Beskrovny,
Polkovodets
, 274–5; Shvedov,
Komplektovanie
, 127–9, 136.
2.
Otechestvennaia Voina 1812g. Istochniki, etc
. (1998), 20.
3.
Toll, II/190–1.
4.
Maevskii, 154; Ermolov, 92.
5.
Toll, II/204; A.N. Popov,
Dvizhenie
, July 1897, 114–18; Kharkievich,
Barclay de Tolly v Otechestvennoi Voinie
, 34; Dubrovin, 129.
6.
Chicherin, 32.
7.
Wilson,
Diary
, I/194; Chicherin, 28; Kutuzov,
Pisma
, 359; Wilson,
Invasion
, 182–90; Kutuzov,
Dokumenty
, 231–2.
8.
Kutuzov,
Dokumenty
, 226–7.
9.
Shishov, 291; Bennigsen,
Zapiski
, 508–22; Maevskii, 156; Tarle,
Nashestvie
, 225–7; A.N. Popov,
Dvizhenie
, August 1897, 366; W.H. Löwenstern, I/303–4; Mitarevskii, 122–3; Kutuzov,
Dokumenty
, 407–10.
10.
Radozhitskii, 224.
11.
Kutuzov,
Dokumenty
, 228–9, 230; Beskrovny,
Polkovodets
, 295; Altshuller & Tartakovskii, 52–4; Dolgov, 13.
12.
Kutuzov,
Dokumenty
, 411; Ermolov, 122; 1812
god. Voiennie Dnevniki
, 98; Württemberg, 21.
13.
Fezensac,
Journal
, 64; Bausset, II/126.
14.
Fezensac,
Journal
, 68; see also Paixhans, 20.
15.
Laugier,
Récits
, 118–19.
16.
Bourgogne, 56–7.
17.
Barrau, 91; Ségur, V/102–3; Mailly, 72.
18.
Pion des Loches, 308; Lecointe de Laveau, 137; Mailly, 71.
19.
Griois, II/82.
20.
Denniée (107) gives the number of vehicles accompanying the army as 40,000, Bellot de Kergorre (70) as 25,000, Castellane (I/173) as 15,000.
21.
Reliable figures are not available. Nafziger (263) says there were 95,000 men; Jomini (239) says there were 80,000 men and 15,000 malingerers; and most are agreed that there were just under 100,000. On the condition of the troops, see: Baudus, II/247; Bourgeois, 85; Mailly, 66.
22.
Dumonceau, II/175; Beauharnais, VIII/59; Labaume, 237.
23.
Rapp, 192–3.
24.
Napoleon,
Correspondance
, XXIV/278, 281.
25.
Ibid., 289.
26.
Aubry, 167–70.
27.
Kutuzov, Dokumenty, 415.
28.
Wilson,
Invasion
, 229.
29.
Berthézène, II/132; Wilson, Invasion, 230; Bertolini, I/369.
30.
Beauharnais, VIII/22; Labaume, 279.
31.
Caulaincourt, II/98–9; Fain,
Manuscrit
, II/248, 251–2, 253, 255; Lejeune,
Mémoires
, II/240; Ségur, V/ 116, 123–8.
32.
Griois, II/89; Fain,
Manuscrit
, II/253.
33.
Kharkievich,
1812 god
v
Dnevnikakh
, 45; Mitarevskii, 125.
34.
Toll, II/269; Bennigsen,
Zapiski
, 360; Nesselrode, IV/108; Toll, II/270; Dubrovin, 235.
1.
Denniée, 118; Volkonskii, 199–203.
2.
Denniée, 114–5; Caulaincourt, II/104–5.
3.
Dedem, 271–2.
4.
Mailly, 78.
5.
Labaume, 288; Roos, 115, Ségur, V/152; Dumas, III/127; Bellot de Kergorre, 72; Barrau, 94. François (II/795) claims to have met the man when he was on his way to Moscow, three weeks after the battle. Pelet (11) refutes the whole story as nonsense.
6.
Fezensac,
Journal
, 75.
7.
Caulaincourt, II/109–10, 111–12.
8.
Ibid., 112–14.
9.
Palmer,
Alexander, 251
.
10.
Dumonceau, II/120.
11.
Lettres Interceptées
, 251; Blaze de Bury, I/393.
12.
Bellot de Kergorre, 73–4.
13.
Paixhans, 39.
14.
Chambray, II/367; Nesselrode, IV/116; Pion des Loches, 309.
15.
Castellane, I/175; Bourgogne, 63; Kurz, 136; Labaume, 288.
16.
Dumonceau, II/190–1.
17.
Beyle,
Vie de Napoléon
, 239.
18.
Laugier,
Récits
, 133; Kolaczkowski, I/156; Shishov, 298; Prince Eugène of Württemberg, 30, claims his division alone lost 1,000, but Shvedov,
Komplektovanie
, puts Russian losses at no higher than 1200; Askenazy, 237; Castellane, I/181; Pelet, 21; Fezensac,
Journal
, 79; Voronovskii, 190.
19.
Kutuzov,
Dokumenty
, 414; Bennigsen,
Zapiski
, 366; Tarle,
Nashestvie
, 260; Kutuzov,
Dokumenty
, 241, 243.
20.
Mailly, 80, 83.
21.
Griois, II/96; Bertin, 30; Laugier,
Récits
, 131.
22.
Caulaincourt, II/117; Lettres
Interceptées
, 184.
23.
Castellane, I/180; Pelet, 16; Voronovskii, 185; Pelet, 18.
24.
Bourgogne, 66–7.
25.
Dumonceau, II/197.
26.
Laugier,
Récits
, 137.
27.
Pelet, 19–21.
28.
Faber du Faur, 244; Holzhausen, 187. Kerner gives a different date to Faber du Faur, but as the latter’s account is based on a journal, I give him the benefit of the doubt; Lignières, 118–19.
29.
Paixhans, 27.
30.
Pelet, 11.
31.
Dedem, 279; Labaume, 308.
32.
Lignières, 118.
33.
Caulaincourt, II/139; Walter, 68; Bellot de Kergorre, 74.
34.
Zaluski, 251.
35.
Laugier,
Recits
, 137; Muralt, 86; Dedem, 276; Griois, II/108; Fredro, 82; Coignet, 213; Vionnet de Maringoné, 64.
36.
Bourgogne, 61; Askenazy, 237.
37.
Vionnet de Maringoné, 65; Le Roy 205.
38.
Labaume, 281; Lignières, 137.
39.
La Flise, LXXII/567, 570–1, 574.
40.
Griois, II/99.
41.
Boulart, 268; Pelet, 76; Muralt, 90.
42.
Dedem, 280.
43.
Pretet; Placzkowski, 37.
44.
Dupuy, 197; see also Chevalier, 239.
45.
Lejeune,
Mémoires
, II/250; Kurz, 144.
46.
Roguet, III/508.
47.
Lettres Interceptées
, 227; Holzhausen, 178.
48.
Walter, 53; François, II/827; Duverger, 14.
49.
Labaume, 294–5; Fusil,
Souvenirs
, 257.
50.
Clemenso, 38.
51.
Davidov, 119, 134–5; W.H. Löwenstern, I/294–5; Simanskii, 1913, No.3, 142.
52.
Dubrovin, 325; Wilson,
Invasion
, 257–8.
53.
Bertolini, I/188.
54.
Faure, 74.
55.
Wilson,
Diary
, I/215; Kurz, 145; W.H. Löwenstern, I/228.
56.
Wachsmuth, 206; Combe, 145–9.
57.
Radozhitskii, 253.
1.
Beaulieu, 33; Shvedov,
Komplektovanie
, 137; see also Zotov, 605.
2.
Napoleon,
Correspondance
, XXIV/298–300, 300–2.
3.
Rapp, 201; Caulaincourt, II/126.
4.
Napoleon,
Correspondance
, XXIV/302.
5.
Ibid, 303–6; Jomini,
Précis
, I/173.
6.
Beyle,
Corr. Gen
., II/369.
7.
Clausewitz (98) says Napoleon lost 61,000; Berthézène (II/145) maintained that Napoleon had no more than 20,000 fighting men left, but he always gives low figures; Lejeune (
Mémoires
, II/256) states that the Guard consisted of no more than 3–4,000 men under arms; Rossetti (157) that there were only 36,000 under arms in total. See also Nafziger, 305.
8.
Alexander,
Corr. avec Bernadotte
, 63.
9.
Griois, II/116.
10.
Laugier,
Récits
, 141. See also ibid., 138–47; Chambray, II/388; Labaume, 327–31; Zanoli, 202.
11.
Lettres Interceptées
, 318; Shishov, 299, claims that Prince Eugène lost 62 guns; Voronovskii (200) puts the figure at 64.
12.
Pastoret, 470–1
13.
Zaluski, 252; Dedem, 277; Griois, II/124.
14.
Bellot de Kergorre, 76; Caulaincourt, II/131; Griois, II/129.
15.
Puibusque,
Lettres sur la guerre
, 109; François, II/815; Lignières, 121; La Flise, LXXII/579; Lecoq, 168; Kurz, 150; Laugier,
Récits
, 150, 153.
16.
Pastoret, 472.
17.
Labaume, 338.
18.
Larrey, IV/91; Voronovskii, 209; see also Angervo; Fezensac,
Journal
, 96; Bourgogne, 81.
19.
Bertrand, 147; Bourgogne, 76–7. He may or may not be describing the same incident, but it seems to fit in time and place with Bertrand’s account.
20.
Faber du Faur, 253–4.
21.
Lejeune,
Mémoires
, II/253–4;
Lettres Interceptées
, 251.
22.
Laugier,
Récits
, 150; Bertolini, II/10.
23.
Labaume, 349–50.
24.
Sauzey, III/173; La Flise, LXXII/579.
25.
Pelet, 29–30.
26.
Ibid., 25; Fezensac,
Journal
, 96; Henckens, 153–4; Dumonceau, II/202–3. Faber du Faur (251) writes that ‘the last bonds of order and discipline were broken’ in Smolensk. Peyrusse (Mémorial, 118) claims that discipline was cracking and ‘our divisions resemble armed mobs’.
27.
Caulaincourt, II/137, 386–7.
28.
Boulart, 270–1.
29.
Caulaincourt, II/141; Saint-Denis, 54. Méneval (II/93–4) writes that Napoleon only acquired the poison at Orsha.
30.
Griois, II/133; Labaume, 357; Laugier,
Récits
, 155.
31.
Bourgogne, 116; Kutuzov,
Dokumenty
, 424–5, 427; Toll, II/321; Wilson,
Invasion
, 272–3.
32.
Boulart, 273.
33.
Vlijmen, 319; Roguet, III/520.
34.
Maevskii, 161; Dumonceau, II/210; Caulaincourt, II/154.
35.
Chambray, II/455; see also Fantin des Odoards, 346; Bourgogne, 132; Rumigny, 64.