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by Andrew Roberts


  Moncey, Marshal Bon-Adrien de 251, 257, 344, 623

  Mondovi, battle of (1796) 84

  Monge, Gaspard 10, 89, 167

  Monge, Louis 16

  Moniteur Universel (journal) 130, 140, 226, 244

  N’s use of 316

  on British government 317

  and N’s return (1815) 742

  Monnier, General, Marengo 264, 265, 266, 267

  Monroe, James, American negotiator 325

  Montalivet, Count Jean 703

  Montbrun, General 506

  death at Borodino 606

  Montenotte, battle of (1796) 83

  medal 131

  Montereau, battle of (1814) 702

  Montesquiou, Madame de 574

  Montesquiou-Fezensac, Comte Anatole de 464, 571n, 665

  grand chamberlain 742

  Montfort, Colonel 683

  Montgelas, Count Maximilian von 529

  Monthion, General François de 744

  Montholon, Albine 779, 783–4, 793, 808–9

  Montholon, General Charles-Tristan de 718, 719, 779, 780, 784, 786

  St Helena xxxiv, 779

  and Napoleon III 808

  Montmirail (Marchais-Montmirail), battle of (1814) 700 and n

  Montrond, Talleyrand’s secretary 222

  Monvoisin, Captain 67

  Moore, General Sir John

  retreat to Corunna 495

  death of 500

  Morand, General

  Wagram 523

  Borodino 605

  Lützen 650

  after Waterloo 771

  Moreau de Saint-Méry, Médéric 314

  Moreau, General Jean 78, 79, 139, 210, 349

  and Brumaire coup 217–18, 219–20

  and re-engagement with Austria 249, 250–51

  crossing of Rhine (1800) 252

  and Concordat (1801) 274

  Hohenlinden 285–6

  and Cadoudal conspiracy 334, 335, 346

  and Malet’s coup 622

  Dresden 668, 671

  Mortefontaine, Treaty of (1800) 286

  Mortier, Marshal Édouard Adolphe 327, 344, 345, 807–8

  Austerlitz 380

  Friedland 453, 454

  destruction of Kremlin 617–18

  Lützen 650

  Leipzig 677

  and capitulation of Paris 709

  and N (1815) 743

  Moscow

  as N’s objective 583–4, 592–3, 597

  burning of 610–12

  French army in 610–17

  shortage of supplies 612

  destruction of Kremlin 617–18

  Moulin, General Jean-François 209, 220

  Mount Tabor (Mount Hamoreh), battle of (1801) 194–5

  Mozhaisk (Russia) 609–10

  Muiron, Colonel Jean-Baptiste 51

  as aide-de-camp 58, 122

  Muiron (French ship) 202–3

  Munich 372

  Murad Bey, Mamluk ruler of Egypt 170–71, 172–3

  Murat, Caroline 400

  Murat, Marshal Joachim 344, 345, 399, 500

  Vendémiaire 65

  and Mantua 108, 121

  illness 110

  marriage to Caroline Bonaparte 144, 305

  Holy Land 186

  and Brumaire coup 224

  crossing of Alps 253

  Marengo 263

  and d’Enghien affair 337

  Trochtelfingen 373

  at Vienna 376

  Austerlitz 380, 383, 388

  Jena 413, 415, 420

  in Prussia 426

  at Hof 438

  Eylau 439; cavalry charge, 443–4

  Friedland 451

  in northern Spain (1808) 478

  Madrid 479; and El Dos de Mayo revolt 480, 481

  as King of Naples 482, 630–31, 692

  Russian campaign 578–9, 592–3, 609, 620, 630–31

  Ostrovno 592

  Borodino 606–7

  Tarutino 617, 619–20

  abandonment of Poland 637

  and Leipzig 664, 675, 677

  Dresden 669, 670

  at Töplitz 672

  defection to Allies 685, 692

  and N (1815) 743

  execution 785

  Murray, William Van, American envoy 286

  Mustafa Pasha, Turkish commander 200

  Nangis, battle of (1814) 701–2

  Nansouty, General Étienne 11

  Jena 420

  Friedland 453

  Aspern 514

  Napier, Sir Charles 308n

  Naples 101, 686

  peace treaty (1796) 117

  conquest of (1806) 394

  Joseph Bonaparte as king 397, 399

  Murat as king 482, 630–31, 692

  see also Two Sicilies, Kingdom of

  Napoleon III, Emperor (Charles-Louis-Napoléon, son of Louis Bonaparte) 807

  Napoléon-Vendée, new town 486, 487

  Narbonne-Lara, General Comte Louis de, aide-de-camp to N 242, 573

  National Assembly, opposition to N in 144, 145–6

  National Convention (1793) 44

  Nazareth 195

  Neipperg, General Adam von 665

  and Marie Louise of Austria 724–5, 807

  Nelson, Admiral Horatio, Lord 124, 364

  and French fleet bound for Egypt 166

  Aboukir Bay 178

  Copenhagen 296

  at Toulon 327

  West Indies 363

  Trafalgar 364, 374–5

  neo-classical style 544–5

  Neufchâteau, François de, member of Directory 147

  Neverovski, General, at Krasnoi 596

  Ney, Marshal Michel 52, 344, 345, 764n

  Switzerland 313–14

  and Austerlitz 371

  Jena 415, 418, 419–20

  and Magdeburg 422

  in Prussia 426

  and Königsberg 436

  at Eylau 438, 444

  at Guttstadt 449

  Friedland 454–5

  at Danzig 563

  at Smolensk 596

  at Valutina-Gora 597–8

  Borodino 605, 606

  and retreat from Moscow 622, 625, 635

  at Berezina river 626

  Lützen 646, 647, 650

  Bautzen 653

  Leipzig 665, 680, 682

  Dresden 668, 669

  attack on Berlin 672

  at Marchais 700

  and 1814 campaign 703

  and abdication 710–11

  defection to N (1815) 736, 737–8, 743

  Waterloo 744, 750, 754, 764, 766

  execution 785

  Nice

  N at (1793) 45

  captured by Melas 256

  Niemen, River 574

  crossing of 576–7, 580

  Nisas, Carrion de, playwright 108

  Nizam, Ibrahim, co-commandant 188

  Nodier, Charles, novelist 318

  Normandy, bread riots 568

  Northumberland, HMS, voyage to St Helena 779–80

  Norvins, Jacques de, at Friedland 454

  Nouvelles Politiques (newspaper) 130

  Noverraz, Jean-Abram, valet, St Helena 779

  Odeleben, Baron Ernst von 662–3, 675, 683

  Oder, River

  Grande Armée at 573

  as border of French Empire 645

  Odoards, General Fantin des 612, 756

  O’Hara, General Charles, captured 51

  Oldenburg, duchy of

  annexation 556–7, 564, 5
68

  compensation for annexation 568–9

  Oldenburg, Duke Peter of 556

  Ollioules, Toulon 47

  arsenal 48, 49

  Olsufiev, General Zakhar Dmitrievich 699

  O’Meara, Dr Barry 272

  on St Helena 780, 795

  and N’s illness on St Helena 792–3

  Ordener, General Michel 336

  Oriani, Barnaba, astronomer 97

  Orsha (Russia) 625

  Orthez, battle of (1814) 703

  Ossian (James Macpherson), poet 13–14

  Ostermann-Tolstoy, Count Alexander 433

  Eylau 443

  Ostrovno 592

  Ostrolenka (Poland) 447

  Ostrovno, battle of (1812) 592

  Ott, General Karl von 258

  siege of Genoa 252, 256–7

  Marengo 264, 265

  Otto, Louis-Guillaume 366–7

  peace negotiations (1801–2) 294–5, 297, 300

  and British press 315–16

  ambassador to Vienna 572

  Ottoman Empire 161, 185

  Oudinot, Marshal Nicolas 344, 345, 744, 773

  Austerlitz 383, 389

  Friedland 450, 451, 453, 454

  in Germany 502

  at Landshut 503

  in Bavaria 506

  Aspern 515

  Wagram 522

  Russia 563, 596, 635

  at Berezina river 626, 627–8

  Bautzen 652–3

  and Berlin 664, 672

  Leipzig 664, 665, 677

  Brienne 694

  1814 campaign 701, 703

  Ouvaroskoe (Russia) 621

  Ouvrard, Gabriel, banker 245, 548

  painters, French 543

  Pajol, General 702

  and Waterloo campaign 755

  Palafox, Don José de 483, 484

  Palm, Johann, Württemberg publisher, trial 411

  Paoli, Pasquale, Corsican nationalist leader 4–5, 10, 28

  N and 6, 21, 27, 33–4

  and French Revolution 31, 37

  return to Corsica 33

  opposition to French Republic 41

  and Great Britain 43–5

  and Sardinian expedition 43

  Papacy

  N’s view of 271

  secret negotiations with 272–4

  N’s relations with 529–30

  excommunication of N 530

  Papacy VII

  see also Pius

  Papal states

  armistice with (1796) 105–6

  N and 129–30

  annexation of (1809) 530

  authoritarianism in 805

  Paris xxvi–xxvii

  food riots (1792) 37

  rising of ‘Sections’ (1795) 64–7

  Jardin des Plantes 89

  N in (1797–8) 155–9

  N’s house in rue Chantereine 155, 207, 208, 808

  St Sulpice banquet 215

  N’s return after Marengo 285–6

  industrial exhibition (1802) 315

  threatened by Allies (1814) 698–9, 708–9

  N’s march on 709–10

  capitulation to Allies (1814) 710

  N’s entry (1815) 738–9

  public works (1815) 746

  N’s final return after Waterloo 771–3

  see also Tuileries

  Parma, Duke of 89, 116

  Partouneaux, General Louis 629

  Pasquier, Étienne-Denis

  police prefecture 238, 693

  on bread riots 568

  Passarge, River 450

  Patterson, Elizabeth, wife of Jérôme Bonaparte 343, 395

  Paul I, Tsar of Russia 185, 286

  assassination 295

  Pavia 98

  Pavlovna, Grand Duchess Anna 537–8

  Pavlovna, Grand Duchess Catherine 491, 563, 570

  Pedicoste, battle of (1763) 5

  Pelet de la Lozère, Joseph, State Councillor 316, 319, 328–9, 339, 392

  Pellapra, Françoise-Marie de 361 and n

  Pelletier, General Louis 110

  Peltier, Jean-Gabriel, émigré newspaper editor 316, 317–18

  Penal Code (1810) 278

  Peninsular War 476–7, 531, 546, 561, 566, 599–600

  living off the land 85n

  Vitoria 659–60

  see also Portugal; Spain

  pépinière (mulberry orchard) 18–19

  Perceval, Spencer, Prime Minister 317–18, 431

  and Peninsular War 561

  Percy, Baron Pierre, surgeon-in-chief 434, 455

  Pérignon, General Dominique-Catherine de 345

  as honorary marshal 344n

  Perrée, Rear Admiral Jean-Baptiste 172

  Perregaux, Jean, Swiss banker 246

  Petiet, Claude, state councillor 258

  Pétiet, General Auguste 757

  Petit, General Jean-Martin 718, 720

  Waterloo 767–8

  Petit, Joseph 262, 265

  petitions, under 1799 Constitution 236–7

  Petty, Lord Henry (Marquess of Lansdowne) 310

  Peyrusse, Guillaume 612

  Peyrusse, Louis-André, on Jaffa 189–90

  Pezza, Michele 394

  Phélippeaux, General Antoine 11

  with Royal Navy 192

  Philibert, Captain, French navy 774

  Phull, General Ernst von 557, 571

  Piacenza 88–9, 258

  Pichegru, General Charles 11, 144, 147, 210

  and Cadoudal conspiracy 333, 334, 335, 340

  Pichon, Louis, ambassador to America 343

  Piedmont (Italy) 75, 78

  declaration of war 41–2

  campaign (1794) 53, 54–5

  armistice 86–7

  annexation (1802) 313

  Piéron, butler, St Helena 779

  Pignatelli, Prince de Belmonte- 101–2

  Pijon, General Jean-Joseph 111

  pillaging 84–5 and n

  Russia 590

  during 1814 campaign 698

  Pils, François 626

  Pitt, William, the Younger 42, 294–5, 342

  and Third Coalition 358

  foreign policy 359–60

  death 400

  Pius VI, Pope 105, 118

  and peace (1797) 129–30

  death 271

  Pius VII, Pope 271, 274

  officiation at Coronation 351–2

  quarrels with N 399

  refusal to join blockade against British trade 529–30

  arrest by General Radet 530–31

  Concordat with (1813) 639–40

  return to Rome (1814) 692

  and reinstatement of Papal States 805

  Piverou, Citizen 162

  plague, at Jaffa 191–2 and n, 198–9

  Plagwitz, battle of (1813) 672

  Platov, General, at Borodino 606

  plebiscites

  (1800) 239–40

  (1802) 311

  (1804), to establish hereditary empire 348

  (1815) 748

  Pleischwitz, Armistice of (1813) 654–5

  Pleisse, River 683

  plots, assassination 287–90

  bomb (machine infernale) 287–8

  hand grenades 288

  knife attack 288

  Cadoudal conspiracy 333–41, 346–7

  Friedrich Staps 534–5

  Plumptre, Anne 88

  Plymouth 778–9

  Po, River 86

  crossing of (1796) 88–91

  Poland 408–9, 425
, 431–8, 538, 569

  winter weather 434, 435, 436, 437–8

  partitions 459

  Polignac, Armand de 347

  Polish campaign 425–45

  Pomerania, Swedish, annexation 570

  Pondicherry, India 307

  Poniatowski, General Prince Józef 345, 432, 518, 563

  and Russian campaign 584–5, 631

  at Smolensk 596

  Borodino 605, 608

  Lützen 646

  Leipzig 676, 683–4

  death 683–4, 685

  Pons, M., inspector of mines 730

  Ponsard, Captain Jean-Marie 223–4

  Ponte Nuovo, battle of (1769) 5, 33

  Poppleton, Captain Thomas 789

  Portalis, Jean-Étienne, minister 238

  and Code Napoléon 276

  Portalis, Joseph-Marie, minister 238

  Portland, 3rd Duke of 401, 430–31

  portraits 543–4

  first prints and engravings of N 130–31

  Bonaparte at the Corps Legislatif (print) 226

  N as First Consul (Ingres) 247

  Portugal

  declaration of war 41–2, 487

  N’s attack on (1807) 473–5, 478

  deposition of Braganza royal family 474, 475, 478

  Masséna in 545–6

  Lines of Torres Vedras 546

  see also Peninsular War

  Posen, Poland, N in 431

  Potocka, Countess Anna 20n, 435

  Potsdam, N at (1806) 423

  Potsdam, Treaty of (1805) 375, 392

  Pouchelon, Colonel 591

  Pouzet, Colonel Pierre, Austerlitz 385

  Pozzo di Borgo clan 41

  Pozzo di Borgo, Count Charles-André 33, 41, 693n

  Pozzo di Borgo, Matteo 37

  Pradt, Abbé de, ambassador to Warsaw 571, 631

  Prague, Congress of (1813) 655, 659, 660–61

  Metternich’s demands 661

  ‘Prairial’ coup (‘parliamentary day’) (1799) 209, 220

  prefects, of departments 244, 245, 689–90

  press 130–31

  block on foreign newspapers 243, 316

  British 315–17

  and peace 393

  duty on newspapers 401

  press freedom

  restrictions 211, 242–4

  abolition of censorship 745

  Pressburg, Treaty of (1805) 393, 394

  Primolano (Italy) 115

  Prina, Count Giuseppe 719

  Pripet Marshes 593

  propaganda

  N and power of 130

  in Egypt 175

  British 196, 316–17

  post-Marengo report 268

  Provence, Royalist revolt 211

  Provence, Comte de see Louis XVIII

  Provera, General Giovanni di (Austrian army) 119–20, 126–7

  at Arcole 122

  surrender 128

  Prud’hon, Pierre-Paul, painter 543

  Prussia

  declaration of war (1792) 38

  invasion of France (1792) 39, 40

  neutrality 367, 637

 

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