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mortal danger 82; motivation of troops 100–1; Ney, criticises 31, 35; orders 25, 30, 35, 88, 118; orders Imperial Guard retreat 109; orders Middle Guard to attack Wellington’s line 107–8; over- confidence 40–1; return from Elba 19; smallness of battlefield works against 53; splits forces 26–7; staff changes, problems with 27, 34–5, 38; strategic plans 29–30, 31, 32–3, 34–5, 53. 71. 93. 97, 103–4.129; support from French people 21; topography, use of 51–2, 62, 119; treason amongst troops 21–2, 25–6; troop numbers 20–1, 24, 94; Wellington, rivalry with 17

Borodino, Battle of 54

Bourmont, General Comte Louis 25, 26

Brack, Captain Fortune 76, 77, 126–8

Brussels 26, 28, 35, 39, 54, 77, 93

Bull, Captain Robert 58

Bulow, General Friedrich Wilhelm von 37, 63, 87, 93, 130, 131, 132

Busaco, Battle of 32

Byron, Lord 14, 28, 58

Cambronne, General Pierre-Jacques- Etienne 108, 109

Carlyle, Thomas 86–7

Chandler, Dr David 32

Charge!: Great Cavalry Charges of the Napoleonic Wars (Smith) 76, 126

Chasse, Baron David de 104, 105

Chesney, Colonel Charles 92

Christiani, General 108

Cleeves, Captain 104

Colborne, Sir John 107

Colville, Lieutenant-General Sir Charles 38

Congress of Vienna 121–2

Cotton, Sergeant-Major Edward 13, 50–1, 57, 92, 110, 120

Creevey, Thomas 23

Davout, Marshal Louis-Nicolas 20, 38

d’Erlon, Marshal Jean-Baptiste Drouet 32, 35, 59, 62, 63, 64–5, 66, 67, 68–9, 70, 71, 73, 75, 91, 93, 100, 102, 110, 116–17, 123

Desaix, General Louis 84

Desvaux, General 82

Diary of a Cavalry Officer (Tomkinson) 70

Dick, Major Robert 123–5

Dick, Dr William 123

Domon, General Jean-Simon 63

Donzelot, General Francois-Xavier 64, 65, 67

Drake, Sir Francis 114

Drouot, General Antoine 51–2, 82

Duhesme, General Philibert-Guillaume 109

Durutte, General Pierre-Francois-Joseph 64, 65, 67, 71, 100, 110

Duthilt, Captain 65

Ewart, Sergeant Charles 69

Farine, General 70

Fletcher, Ian 23, 55

Fouche, Joseph 110

Foy, General Maximilien-Sebastien 40, 41

Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 20

Fraser, Sir William 123

Frazer, Lieutenant-Colonel Augustus 102, 108

Frederick of the Netherlands, Prince 38

French regiments and armies: Armee de Reserve 84; Armee du Nord 20, 21–2, 109, 113; Belgian and Dutch Light Dragoons 70; 1st Chasseurs 108, no; Grand Battery 52, 55, 62, 69, 72, 73. 75, 82, 118; Imperial Guard 33, 52, 81, 94, 95, 100, 101, 102–3, 107, 118, 129, 132; IV Cavalry Corps 40, 77; Middle Guard 99, 105–6, 107; Old Guard 97, 99; 2nd Chasseurs 108; 2nd Chevaux-legers Lancers of the Guard 126; 3rd Chasseurs 106; VI Corps 97–8; Young Guard Division 88, 94, 97

Friant, General Louis 103

Friedland, Battle of 25, 40, 64

Garcia Hernandez, Battle of 78, 79

Gardiner, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Robert 88, 89, 109

George III, King 22, 49

Gerard, Marshal Etienne-Maurice 72, 118

Gneisenau, General August Wilhelm Anton von 33, 89, 114

Golzio, Lieutenant-Colonel Baron 97

Graham, Corporal James 57–8

Graham, Corporal Joseph 57

Gronow, Ensign Howell Rees 15–16, 50, 59, 80–1, 82, 84, 85, 96, 106, 111

Grouchy, Marshal Emmanuel de 34–5, 37, 38, 39, 53, 63, 72, 89, 100, 101, 116, 117, 118

Guyot, Major-Colonel Claude-Etienne 80

Halkett, General Sir Colin 84, 95, 104, 105, 107

Hannibal 30

Harris, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. William 125

Heymes, Colonel 92, 94

Hill, Paul 103

Hill, General Rowland 38–9

Hofschroer, Peter 113

Houssaye, Henri 92

Hugo, Victor 85–6, 87

Jackson, Andrew 22

Jacquinot, General 70

Jomini, General Antoine-Henri 13, 114

Keegan, Sir John 55

Kellerman, Marshal Francois-Christophe de 80, 82, 84

Kelly, Acting Quartermaster-General Major Dawson 96

Kempt, Major-General Sir James 67, 71, 95

Kennedy, Captain Alexander Clark 69