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Napoleon

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by Andrew Roberts


  titles and dotations 345

  in 1815 742–4

  after Napoleon 807–8

  French Guiana, deportations to 289

  French language, official 280

  French navy 158, 322–3

  L’Orient 166, 178

  flotilla for invasion of England 328–9

  opposition to planned invasion of England 331

  N’s attempts to rebuild 375, 484–5n

  and smuggling 429–30

  French Republic

  and Corsica 5, 6

  declaration of war on Austria and Prussia (1792) 38

  declaration of Republic 40

  declaration of war on Britain and Holland (1793) 41

  mass conscription 42

  Constitution of the Year III (1795) 64–5, 146, 217

  economy under Directory 87, 211–12

  Brumaire coup (1799) 206–28

  Constitution of the Year VIII (1799) 232–3, 234–7, 239–40, 244

  Constitution of the Year X (1802) 310, 312

  French Revolution

  outbreak (1789) 26–8

  and Corsica 29, 30–34, 37–8, 40–41

  abolition of symbolic aspects 241

  see also Terror, Reign of

  Fréron, Louis-Stanislas 51

  Friant, General Louis 591

  Austerlitz 384, 390n

  at Eylau 444

  Wagram 523

  Borodino 605

  Friedland, battle of (1807) 450–56, 452

  Frochot, François, member of Conseil 623

  Frotté, Comte Louis de 242

  Fructidor Coup (1797) 146–8

  Fuentes de Oñoro, battle of (1811) 566

  Galitzin, Prince Andrei 433

  Gallo, Marquis de 138, 141

  Ganilh, Charles 306

  Ganteaume, Rear Admiral Honoré 183, 295, 331

  Gap 735

  Garat, Dominique 306

  Garda, Lake 109–10, 114

  Gardanne, General Gaspard 259

  Marengo 262, 263–4

  Gasparin, Thomas 51

  Gasparin, Thomas de 47 and n

  Gassicourt, Cadet de 517, 772

  Gatte, M. pharmacist 730

  Gaudin, Martin, as finance minister 233–4, 745

  and bankers 245–6

  Gauville, Captain Adolphe 676

  Gaza City 188

  Gazan, General Honoré 418, 660

  gendarmerie, reorganized 240–41

  Genoa 55

  and Corsica 4–5

  riots 142–3

  besieged 249, 252, 256–7

  surrender 257

  Gent, Lieutenant, French navy 774

  Gentilini, footman, St Helena 779

  George III, King of England 45 and n, 237, 321

  on Peace of Amiens 318–19

  George IV, King, as Prince Regent 776, 794–5

  George, Mademoiselle (Marguerite Weimer) 656, 747, 810

  Gérard, François, painter 469, 543, 601

  Austerlitz 388

  Gérard, General Étienne 701

  Leipzig 677

  Gèricault, Thèodore, painter 543

  Germany 292–3

  First Coalition campaign (1792–7) 115, 131

  N’s northern campaign (1797) 131–2

  Imperial Rescript (rationalization) 320–21, 406

  Jews in 404

  Rhine Confederation 405, 406, 407

  modernization 528

  incipient nationalism 535

  see also Bavaria; Prussia; Rhine Confederation

  Geyl, Pieter xxxi

  Gillray, James 310, 317

  Girard, General Jean-Baptiste

  and Leipzig campaign 664–5, 672

  at Magdeburg 664

  Hagelberg 672

  Girardin, Louis de, prefect 690

  Girodet, Anne-Louis, painter 543

  Girona, French siege of 480–81, 486

  Girondin Club 30n

  Girondins

  arrest of 44

  defeat of Jacobins 55, 57–8

  and new constitution (1795) 63–4

  Giulay, General 377

  Glasse, Rev. G.H. 310

  Gneisenau, General von 642–3

  Waterloo campaign 755

  Godoy y Álvarez de Faria, Don Manuel, Spanish premier 474, 475, 480

  overthrown (1808) 478–9

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von xxxvi, 491–2, 634

  Gohier, Louis xxxv, 208, 219–20

  Golitsyn, Prince 502

  Golymin, battle of (1806) 433

  Gonneville, Lieuteant Aymar-Olivier de 450

  Gourgaud, General Gaspard 7, 271, 621, 694, 718, 731, 801–2

  Russian campaign 590, 620–21

  Waterloo 759

  St Helena 779, 780, 789, 792

  Goya, Francisco, painter 543

  Grandeau, General Louis 684

  Grassini, Giuseppina, singer 258, 269, 294, 361n, 810

  Gravina, Admiral Federico, Spanish ambassador 340

  Great Britain 151, 359

  and war with French Republic 42

  occupation of Corsica (1793–6) 43, 45, 106–7

  Gordon Riots (1780) 66n

  N’s plans for invasion of 158, 327–32, 357–8, 363

  N’s proposal of peace (1799) 237

  religion 274n

  penal code 278 and n

  and Peace of Amiens 294–9, 318–20

  and Russia 296

  and slave trade 301–2

  resumption of travel to France 309–10

  admiration for N in 310

  press propaganda 315–17

  biographies of N 317

  preparations for war (1803) 321, 322, 323–4

  declaration of war (1803) 324

  defences against invasion threat 331

  plots against N 333–4

  N’s views of 359 and n, 360

  peace negotiations (1806) 400–401

  N’s strategic plans against 427–31, 473–4, 487–8

  Orders-in-Council 428

  and War of 1812 428, 561

  trade 430, 560–61

  and Portugal 487

  and opposition to N in Spain 494

  subsidy to Austria 498

  Napoleonic art in 544

  economy 560–61

  subsidies to Sixth Coalition 644, 654–5

  opposition to terms of Frankfurt peace proposals (1813) 686

  consistency of opposition to N 775–6

  N’s request for exile in 775

  see also Peninsular War; Royal Navy

  Great St Bernard pass 251, 253

  Grégoire, Henri, bishop 307

  Grenoble 732, 734, 736

  Grenville, William, Prime Minister 400

  Gribeauval, Jean-Baptiste de, new artillery practice 17

  Gros, Antoine-Jean, painter 543, 809

  Bonaparte Visiting the Plague House at Jaffa 192

  Gross-Beeren, battles at (1813) 665

  Grouchy, Marshal Emmanuel, Marquis de 344, 345

  Eylau 442

  Friedland 453

  1814 campaign 700

  and N (1815) 743

  and Waterloo campaign 754, 755, 758–9, 761

  Waterloo 765, 769, 770

  Gudin, General 597, 598

  Guérin, Jean-Urbain, painter 543

  Guérin, Pierre-Narcisse, painter 182

  Guibert, General Comte Jacques de 112, 366

  Essai général de tactique (1770) 17

  Guinguené, Pierre-Louis 307

  Gü
nzburg, battle of (1805) 372

  Gustav IV Adolph, King of Sweden 449

  Guyot, General 701–2

  Waterloo 761, 766

  Gyulai, Count Ignaz

  at Dresden 669

  Leipzig 676

  Habsburg, Archduke Charles von

  and Italy (1796-7) 78, 115, 131, 132

  armistice (1800) 285–6

  Austerlitz 375, 390

  army reforms 498

  and War of Fifth Coalition 498, 501, 502

  at Landshut 506, 507–8

  and surrender of Vienna 511–12

  and Aspern-Essling 512–13, 514, 515–16

  Wagram 518–19, 522–6

  armistice after Wagram (1809) 526

  and marriage of N to Marie Louise 540

  Habsburg, Archduke Johann von 512, 518

  Hohenlinden 285

  Wagram 523

  Habsburg, Archduke Joseph von, Marengo 263

  Hadik, Count Andreas 701n

  Hagelberg, battle of (1813) 665, 672

  Haifa 193

  Haiti see Saint-Domingue

  Hamburg, Hanseatic revolt 644

  Hamelin, Antoine 93, 107

  Hanau, battle of (1813) 684

  Hanover, invasion of (1803) 327

  Hansa towns 428

  annexation 556

  Hardenberg, Baron Karl von 392–3, 642

  harvests, bad

  (1801) 311

  (1811–13) 560, 568

  Hatzfeld, Prince Franz Ludwig von 423

  Haugwitz, Count Christian von 380, 392–3, 407–10

  Hautpoul, General Jean-Joseph d’ 11

  Jena 420

  Hof 438

  Eylau 444

  Hawkesbury, Lord see Liverpool, Earl of

  Hédouville, General Gabriel d’ 214, 242

  ambassador to Russia 339

  Hédouville, Théodore d’, diplomat 496

  Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, at Jena 415, 418

  Heilsberg, capture of 450

  Heligoland 429

  Hely-Hutchinson, Colonel John 451, 454

  Henry, Walter, surgeon 796, 797–8

  heraldry

  for coronation 347–8

  personal 348

  Hercules III, Duke of Modena 94

  Hiller, Baron Johann von 507–8

  Hobhouse, John Cam 747, 749, 771

  Hoche, General Lazare 52, 57, 139

  and Josephine 70

  as war minister 145

  Hof, battle of (1807) 438

  Hofer, Andreas, and Tyrol rebellion 512, 533

  Hohenlinden, battle of (1800) 285

  Hohenlohe, Prince Friedrich von 414, 415, 419, 420, 423

  Holford, George 334

  Holland 393, 397–8

  Franco-Dutch convention (1801) 307–8

  Louis Bonaparte as king 397–8, 549–50

  annexation 550

  Holland, Lord 158, 311

  and Lady Holland 310

  Holstein-Oldenburg, Prince George of 491

  Holy Land

  N’s invasion 186

  scorched earth tactics 198

  Holy Roman Empire 154

  Final Declaration of the Imperial Deputation (1803) 320

  crown of 361–2

  formal abolition (1806) 406, 407

  Hompesch zu Bolheim, Ferdinand von, Grand Master of Knights of St John 167

  Hood, Admiral Alexander, in Toulon 46

  Hopes bank 325–6

  Horselberg, battle of (1813) 684

  horses 425

  lack of (1813–14) 646, 650, 653, 654, 688

  Russian campaign 578–9, 587–8, 592, 593, 617; retreat from Moscow 621, 623

  Hotham, Admiral Sir Henry 774, 777

  Houdon, General Pierre-Victor 61

  Huguet-Château, General Louis 702

  Hulin, General Pierre-Augustin

  and court martial of d’Enghien 338

  as governor of Paris 623

  Hyères 591n

  Ibrahim Bey 180

  Illari, Camilla, nursemaid 9

  Imperial Council, and coronation 347

  Imperial University 244, 281

  India 318

  N’s ambitions in 186

  French claims under Peace of Amiens 298

  industrialization 315

  ‘Infamous Decree’, against Jews (1808) 404

  Ingres, Jean-Auguste, painter 247, 543

  Institut de France 162

  N elected to 156–7

  N reinstated as member 746

  Institut d’Égypte 179–80

  destruction (2011) 205

  intelligence gathering 109, 412

  before Marengo 262

  spies 310

  Ireland 329–30

  Isnard, Maximin 306

  Italian campaign (1796–7) 74–102, 76–7

  preparations 72–3

  N’s early victories 83–4

  siege of Mantua 100–101

  later stages 105–37

  peace treaties 138–60

  see also Marengo

  Italian Republic 241

  N elected as chief magistrate 305, 306

  Italian Revolution (1831) 807

  Italy

  art treasures from 85n, 87–8, 89, 105–6, 107, 129–30, 151

  creation of Lombardic Republic 95–6

  giacobini governments 95–7

  revolt against French occupation 98–9

  creation of Cispadane Republic 118

  N’s religious reforms 118, 129–30

  Ligurian Republic 142

  Cisalpine Republic 145

  N as king of 361

  see also Genoa; Naples; Piedmont; Two Sicilies, Kingdom of

  al-Jabarti, Abd al-Rahman 176–7

  Jackson, Major Basil 784, 793, 808

  Jacobin Club 30

  Jacobins 55, 640

  collapse of power in Corsica 44–5

  and assassination plots 288–90

  Jaffa, siege of 188–91

  massacre 189–91

  plague 191–2 and n, 198–9

  retreat to 197–8

  Janvilliers 700–701

  Jardin Ainé, N’s orderly 760, 768

  Jefferson, Thomas, American President 302

  and Louisiana Purchase 324

  Jena, battle of (1806) 416–17, 418–21

  Cospeda ravine 419

  aftermath 422–3

  Jena campaign 391–421

  Jermanowski, Colonel Jan, with N in return to France (1815) 730–31

  Jerusalem 191n

  Jessaint, Claude de, prefect 690

  Jews 402–5

  in Alsace 402–3

  ‘Infamous Decree’ (1808) 404

  Jezzar, Ahmed, pasha of Acre 180–81, 183, 185, 192

  and siege of Acre 193–4, 197

  João, Prince of Portugal 473

  Johann of Liechtenstein, Prince 390

  Jomini, General Baron Henri de, military historian 259, 588

  at Jena 419

  Dresden 668

  Joseph II, Emperor of Austria 161

  Jouanne, Chevalier 719

  Joubert, General Barthélemy 120, 126, 127, 209, 210

  Jouberthon, Alexandrine, marriage to Lucien Bonaparte 305

  Jourdan, Marshal Jean-Baptiste 344, 808

  Würzburg 78, 115, 210

  Talavera 531

  and Vitoria 660

  Journal de Bonaparte et des Hommes Vertueux (1797) 130

  Journal de Paris 243, 393

 
Journal des Débats 243

  judiciary, N’s reforms 241

  Julius Caesar, as N’s hero 136, 284

  Jullien, Marc-Antoine, editor 130

  Junot, General Andoche 306

  as aide-de camp to N 47, 54, 73

  marriage to Laure d’Abrantès 59

  in Italy 107, 111

  and Venice 139

  informs N of Josephine’s affair with Charles 171

  invasion of Portugal (1807) 474–5, 478

  surrender to Wellington in Portugal 487

  in Russia 597–8

  insanity 598 and n

  Kaliningrad 426

  Kalisch, Treaty of (1813) 643–4

  Kaluga (Russia) 617, 619–20

  Karl Ludwig, Prince of Bavaria 395

  Katzbach river, battle of (1813) 672

  Keats, John 310

  Keith, Admiral Lord 257, 258, 333, 778–9

  Keller, Major von 768n

  Kellerman, General François-Étienne 689, 701

  Marengo 263, 264, 266, 267, 268–9

  Kellermann, General François-Christophe 40, 121, 147

  Army of the Alps 93–4

  as honorary marshal 344n

  Kellermann, General François-Étienne 110

  Kéralio, Chevalier de 14

  Kerckhove, J.R.L. 589–90

  Kilmaine, General Charles ‘Brave’ 89, 109

  Castiglione 113

  Kléber, General Jean-Baptiste

  in Egypt 163, 178, 201, 203

  Holy Land 186

  battle of Mount Tabor 194–5

  Klein, General Dominique, Jena 420

  Kleist, General Friedrich von 672, 700

  and Lâon 705

  Klenau, General Johann von

  Dresden 668

  Leipzig 676–7

  Koller, General Franz von, and Elba 716, 719, 722

  Kollowrath, General Johann 385

  Eggmühl 508–9

  Wagram 524

  Königsberg 436, 438, 450, 451, 455

  Kosakowski, General 719

  Kosen, battle of (1813) 684

  Krasnoi, battle of (1812) 624, 625

  Krettley, Captain, on Jaffa 190

  Kronach, Prussia 413

  Kundtzow, Mr 728n

  Kurakin, Alexander, Russian ambassador 556, 568–9, 586

  Kutuzov, General Mikhail, Prince 367–8, 615

  and Austerlitz 381, 385

  to replace Barclay 598–9

  at Borodino 606, 607

  refusal of armistice 617

  Maloyroslavets 618, 620

  ‘parallel mark’ strategy 621, 624

  Krasnoi 625

  at Berezina river 626

  at Borisov 629

  death (1813) 646

  La Bédoyère, Charles de 736, 785

  la Cuesta, Don Gregorio de 485

  La Favorita, near Mantua 116, 128

  La France Vue de l’Armée d’Italie 130

  La Harpe, Frédéric de, tutor to Tsar Alexander I 295–6

  La Plaigne, Éléonore Denuelle de 400, 534, 807

 

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