Andrew Roberts - Waterloo - June 18, 1815 - The Battle for Modern Europe

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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