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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