15 Weller Waterloo 183
16 Bryant Elegance 223
17 For an explanation of these remarks see Roberts Napoleon passim
THE FIRST PHASE
1 Cotton Voice 37
2 Gronow Reminiscences 42
3 Cotton Voice 37
4 Roberts Napoleon 159–60
5 Cotton Voice 51
6 Uffindell and Corum Waterloo 35
7 Gronow Reminiscences 43
THE SECOND PHASE
1 Herold Waterloo 124
2 Urban Rifles 268–09
3 Ibid.
4 Hibbert Waterloo 206–7
5 Bryant Elegance 224 n2
6 Cotton Voice 58
7 Tomkinson Diary 303–4
THE THIRD PHASE
1 Keegan Face 126
2 Smith Charge 233
3 Kennedy Notes 115–16
4 Smith Charge 117
5 Becke Waterloo II 84
6 O’Neil Adventures 232
7 Gronow Reminiscences 46
8 Becke Waterloo II 85
9 Longford Sword 568
10 Howarth Near Run 143
11 Gronow Reminiscences 45
12 Ibid. 46
13 Becke Waterloo II 98–9
14 Kennedy Notes 100
15 Tomkinson Diary 308
THE FOURTH PHASE
1 Becke Waterloo II 102–3
2 O’Neil Adventures 234
3 Howarth Near Run 155
4 Urban Rifles 272
5 O’Neil Adventures 234
6 Kennedy Notes 128–9
7 Gronow Reminiscences 45
THE FIFTH PHASE
1 Becke Waterloo II 114–15
2 Hibbert Waterloo 227
3 Fraser Ball 50
4 Becke Waterloo II 119
5 Gronow Reminiscences 47
6 Uffindell and Corum Waterloo 41
7 Gronow Reminiscences 48
8 Sabine Letters 553
9 Cotton Vince 138
10 Gronow Reminiscences 52
CONCLUSION
1 Ropes Campaign 87 and 106, Weiler Waterloo 183, Fletcher Desperate 46–8, Hofschröer Waterloo passim
2 Weiler Waterloo 201
3 Ibid. 183–4
4 Roberts Napoleon passim
5 Ropes Campaign 120–4, Weiler Waterloo 190–1
6 Becke Waterloo I 229
7 Ibid. I 44–5, II 20
8 Weller Waterloo 194
9 Chesney Campaign 192, Weller Waterloo 196
10 Cotton Voice 138
11 O’Neil Adventures 252
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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
Bédoyère, General Charles de la 100
Bellerophon, HMS 111
Bernhard, Prince 71
Berthier, Marshal Louis-Alexandre 27
Birth of the Modern, The (Johnson) 16
Blücher, 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, Jérôme 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; 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
Bülow, General Friedrich Wilhelm von 37, 63, 87, 93, 130, 131, 132
Busaco, Battle of 32
Byron, Lord 14, 28, 58
Cambronne, General Pierre-Jacques- Étienne 108, 109
Carlyle, Thomas 86–7
Chandler, Dr David 32
Charge!: Great Cavalry Charges of the Napoleonic Wars (Smith) 76, 126
Chassé, 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 François-Xavier 64, 65, 67
Drake, Sir Francis 114
Drouot, General Antoine 51–2, 82
Duhesme, General Philibert-Guillaume 109
Durutte, General Pierre-François-Joseph 64, 65, 67, 71, 100, 110
Duthilt, Captain 65
Ewart, Sergeant Charles 69
Farine, General 70
Fletcher, Ian 23, 55
Fouché, Joseph 110
Foy, General Maximilien-Sébastien 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: Armée de Réserve 84; Armée 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-légers 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
Gérard, Marshal Étienne-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
Heymès, Colonel 92, 94
Hill, Paul 103
Hill, General Rowland 38–9
Hofschröer, 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 François-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
Kennedy, General Sir James Shaw 16–17, 55, 77–8, 79, 86, 92, 95–6
Kincaid, Captain John 62
Lambert, General Sir John 71
Lancey, Quartermaster-General Colonel Sir William de 114
Larrey, Dominique-Jean, Baron 54
Le Caillou (farmhouse) 40, 102, 110
Le Moniteur 34
Lefebvre-Desnoëttes, General Charles 77
Leipzig, Battle of 40
Lennox, Georgina 27, 28
Lloyd, Major William 104
Lobau, Marshal Georges Mouton, Comte de 63, 87, 97–8, 109
Longford, Countess Elizabeth 55
Louis XVIII, King 19
Louisiana Purchase (1804) 122
Macara, Sir Robert 123
Macdonneil, Colonel James 57, 58–9
Maitland, Major-General Peregrine 59
Marchand, Louis 54
Marcognet, General 67
Marengo, Battle of 25, 40, 84
Marmont, Marshal Auguste-Frédéric-Louis 84
Masséna, Marshal André 32
Mercer, Captain Alexander Cavalié 35–6, 83, 110
Michel, General 103
Milhaud, General Edouard-Jean-Baptiste 77, 79, 82, 86
Mithridates Eupator, King of Pontus 121
Mont St Jean 36, 40, 54, 57, 89, 100
Moore, Sir John 68
Muffling, General Philipp Friedrich Carl Ferdinand von 71, 88, 101
Murat, Marshal Joachim 38
Napier, Captain 106
Napoleon II, King of Rome 21
Napoleon: For and Against (Geyl) 95
Napoleonic Wars 14–15, 40, 63, 64, 66, 75, 78, 102
Nassau, Prince of 28
Ney, Marshal Michel 13, 26, 30, 31, 32, 34. 35. 61, 64, 73, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 91, 93, 94, 100, 101–2, 103, 105, 110, 116, 117, 128
Notes on the Battle of Waterloo (Kennedy) 17
Ompteda, Colonel Christian Frederick William von 93
O’Neil, Charles 36–7, 80, 92, 94, 120
Orange, William, Prince
of 28
Pack, Major-General Sir Denis 67
Pakenham, General Sir Edward 22
Peninsular War 27, 32, 36, 41, 49, 64, 65, 68, 78–9, 119
Phillips, Wendell 120–1
Picton, Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas 66, 67, 68, 71, 115
Ponsonby, Major-General Sir William 68, 69–70, 76, 126, 131
Powell, Lieutenant Captain Harry Weyland 106
Prussian army 23–4, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34–5. 37–8. 40, 52. 53. 62, 63, 71, 72, 87, 88, 93, 96, 97, 99, 101, 110, 113, 114, 117, 118
Quiot, General 67, 73
Ramsay, Major William Norman 105
Rebecque, General Constant 30
Reille, Marshal Honoré-Charles-Michel-Joseph 55, 56, 100, 102, 115
Reminiscences (Gronow) 80–1
Richmond, General Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of 27–8
Richmond, Charlotte, Duchess of 13, 114, 123, 124
Rogers, Brevet-Major 109
Roguet, General François 103, 108–9
Ropes, John 114
Ros, Lady de 28, 123
St Helena 14, 111, 116
Saltoun, Lieutenant-General Alexander George Fraser, 16th Baron 59
Scharnhorst, General Gerhard Johann David von 24
Schwerin, Graf von 55
Siborne, Captain William 92
Sobraon, Battle of 123
Somerset, Fitzroy 83
Somerset, General Lord Robert Edward Henry 68, 70, 86, 131
Soult, Marshal (Nicolas) Jean-de-Dieu 27, 41, 61, 64, 86, 114–15, 117
Subervie, General Jacques–Gervais 63
Suchet, Marshal Louis-Gabriel 38
Sunderland, University of 51
Tennyson, Alfred Lord 14
Thielmann, Lieutenant-General Johann Adolf von 89
Tomkinson, Captain William 16, 89
Uxbridge, Field Marshal Henry William Paget, 2nd Earl of 36, 68
Vandeleur, Major-General Sir John Ormsby 70, 88, 89, 102, 108
Vincke, Colonel von 67
Vivian, Major-General Sir Richard Hussey 88, 89, 102, 108, 109
Voice from Waterloo, A (Cotton) 13
von Bijlandt, Major–General Graf van 66, 67, 71
Wagram, Battle of 64
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