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INDEX

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Adam, Major–General Frederick 107

Allied regiments and armies: British Foot Guards 49; British Life Guards 36; Brunswickers 15–16, 57, 84, 95; Coldstream Guards 57; Cumberland Hussars 119; 11th Light Dragoons 94; 5th Line Regiment 87–8; 52nd Light Infantry 107; 1st Corps 101; 1st Foot Guards 15, 50, 59, 80–1, 106; 1st Light Infantry 57; 42nd Highland Regiment 123; 45th Line Regiment 69; Inniskilling Regiment 93; King’s German Legion (KGL) 22–3, 24, 49, 65, 79, 91, 92, 93, 104, 115, 131; Light Dragoons 70; 92nd Regiment 67; 95th Rifle Brigade 66, 93; Royal Dragoons 69; Royal Horse Artillery 102; Scots Greys 67, 70; 2nd Grenadier Regiment 97, 108–9; 2nd Guard Lancers 76; 2nd Light Battalion 115; 2nd North British Dragoons 69; 2nd Silesian Hussars 55; 7th Hussars 110; 76th Regiment of the Line 79; 16th Light Dragoons 16, 89; 3rd Foot Guards 57; 3rd Grenadiers 104, 105; Union and Household Brigades 68, 69 70, 70– 1, 72, 76, 108

Alten, Major General Charles von 79

Arbuthnot, Harriet 40

Austerlitz, Battle of 84

Baring, Major Georg 65, 71, 89, 91, 92, 115

Bathurst, Henry, 3rd Earl 129

Becke, Captain A.F. 55, 64, 81, 86, 92, 100

Bedoyere, General Charles de la 100

Bellerophon, HMS 111

Bernhard, Prince 71

Berthier, Marshal Louis-Alexandre 27

Birth of the Modern, The (Johnson) 16

Blucher, Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von 20, 21, 23, 24, 25–6, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 37. 40, 55, 56, 71, 99, 101, 104, 111, 113, 130, 131, 132

Boer War 15

Bonaparte, Jerome 52, 54, 56

Bonaparte, Napoleon: ambition 16; artillery, use of 50, 52, 62–3, 119–20; attempts to punch a hole in the centre of Wellington’s line 93–8, 99–100; La Belle Alliance, attacks 103; bold planning 20–1; communication problems 27, 71–2, 94–5, 119; criticises Wellington’s tactics 39, 115; denies commanding Ney to order heavy cavalry attack 76, 78, 80, 118–19; effect of defeat upon 14; Elba, life on 19, 54, 73, 88, 115–16; escapes the battlefield to Paris and St Helena 110–11; frontal assaults, lack of concern over casualties resulting from 54, 119– 20; gambler 72–3, 99–100; ill-health 54–5; Imperial Guard, orders attack of 99–103; Imperial Guard, refusal to commit 81, 94; infantry frontal assault, orders 63–5, 119; La Haye Sainte, battle for 108–9; lack of decisiveness 19; late start to battle 52; logistical problems 21; loyalty of troops 25–6; mistakes 52–3, 56, 64, 101, 113, 114, 115–21;