_N.'s_ ambition to serve, 216, 319; ii. 15; iv. 256;
share in the partition of, and relations with Poland, i. 220, 425;
iii. 45, 316, 318;
relations and alliances with Austria, i. 325, 425; ii. 44, 61, 72,
145, 154, 209, 312, 355, 360, 363, 381; iii. 169, 178, 311-316,
328, 331, 342, 419; iv. 75, 76;
death of Catherine II, i. 425;
foreign policy (1797), 425;
_N._ intercepts despatches from the Czar to Malta, 424;
weakness of revolutionary sentiment in, ii. 45;
alliances and relations with, schemes of conquest of, and wars
with Turkey, 67, 72, 418; iii. 20, 51, 52, 55, 64, 99, 106-114,
162, 176, 236, 248, 309, 310, 321, 350;
plans military operations in Italy, ii. 72;
the second coalition, 86, 90, 136, 142;
military operations in Holland, 90;
military operations in Switzerland and Italy, 91;
successes on the Trebbia, 92;
defeats Joubert at Novi, 92;
defeated at Zuerich by Massena, 93;
withdraws from the second coalition, 142;
interest in, and activity concerning Malta, 141, 154, 193, 210, 285;
alliances and general friendly relations with France, 154, 203,
209-211, 263, 266, 347, 394, 401; iii. 36, 38, 43-46, 49, 65,
73, 107, 115, 166, 176, 178, 244, 255, 329;
organizes the "armed neutrality," ii. 194, 209, 210;
schemes of Oriental extension and conquest, 194, 209, 262, 330,
347, 348, 401; iii. 50, 55, 64, 108, 167, 236; iv. 41, 67;
intercedes for Naples, ii. 203;
_N.'s_ relations with and attitudes toward, 203, 293, 356, 361;
ii. 440-442; iii. 45, 103, 115, 280, 304, 306, 313-318, 392;
relations with, subsidies from, and wars with England, ii. 209,
210, 263, 357, 401, 406, 421; iii. 49, 55, 64, 99, 100, 102,
105, 117, 265, 266, 287, 288, 316, 321, 351, 398, 417; iv. 41,
76, 164;
assassination of Paul I and accession of Alexander I, ii. 210;
abandons the "armed neutrality," 263;
hostile and general unfriendly relations with France, 293, 312,
330, 347-349; 355, 356, 361; iii. 287, 288, 305, 309-318, 329,
392, 408;
mourns the death of the Duc d'Enghien, ii. 311;
stains on reigning houses of, 317;
protests against seizure of Enghien, 331;
occupies Ionian Islands, 330, 353, 357, 405;
demands indemnity for the king of Sardinia, 330, 348, 418;
attitude in 1805, 352;
relations (friendly and hostile) with Prussia, 353, 376-378, 417,
418; iii. 1, 18, 21-23, 55, 225, 316, 320, 331, 382, 385, 397,
424;
her troops in Galicia, ii. 363;
Bernadotte and Davout watch her army, 366;
military position on the Inn, 367;
defeat of Mortier at Duerrenstein, 368;
military position on the Enns, 367;
outgeneraled by _N._, 376;
the battle of Austerlitz, 382 et seq.;
Czartoryski's view of her policy in 1803, 381;
occupies Naples, 395;
excluded from councils of Western Europe, 402;
occupies Bocche di Cattaro, 405;
strengthens Corfu, 405;
pretensions in Germany, 419;
military operations on the Danube, ii. 441;
military operations against, iii. 1;
concentrates troops at Pultusk, 1;
driven from Warsaw, 2;
character of the population, 3;
a new seat of war for _N._, 3;
battle of Pultusk, 4;
retreat to Ostrolenka, 5;
_N.'s_ new experience in campaigning in, 5;
defects in the army, 9;
devotion of the army to the Czar, 9;
the Cossacks, 9;
defeat at Mohrungen, 10;
condition of troops at Eylau, 14;
financial difficulties, 20, 35, 304, 305;
Turko-Persian alliance against, 20;
successes on the lower Danube, 20;
weakness of, 22, 23;
requests Francis's adherence to convention of Bartenstein, 22;
proposal for a new coalition, 22;
bravery of her soldiers, 27;
dissensions in the court, 28;
forces engaged at Friedland, 31, 32;
military sacrifices, 35;
peace party in, 35;
fighting the battles of others, 34, 35;
destitution in the army, 35;
schemes of territorial aggrandizement, 34, 35;
_N._ demands pledges from, 36;
proposed Baltic boundary line, 36;
ambition to be regarded as a European power, 45;
_N._ a foil to her ambition, 45;
representatives at Tilsit, 49;
schemes for the partition or acquisition of the Danubian
principalities, 50, 55, 98, 99, 105, 310, 314;
to mediate between England and France, 55;
acquires Bielostok, 56, 62;
refuses to seize Memel, 62;
dislike of Savary in, 64;
court and social manners and customs, 64;
discontent with the Czar, 64, 109, 117;
intrigues to acquire, and the invasion and acquisition of Finland,
64, 98, 113-116, 236, 248, 268, 281, 310, 316;
attempts to bring Spain into the coalition, 71;
effect of the treaty of Tilsit, 72;
diplomatic intrigues in, 98;
her good offices sought with Denmark, 98;
frontier menaced by France, 99;
Alexander seeks to abolish serfdom in, 99;
commerce of, 99;
effects of the peace of Tilsit on, 99;
_N._ intervenes between Turkey and, 99;
terms of the agreement at Slobozia, 105;
Tolstoi defends, 105;
diplomatic crisis in, 108-110;
sends a fresh mission to _N._, 110;
proposed invasion of Sweden, 113;
court intrigue in, 115;
Caulaincourt conducts negotiations with, 116;
blockade of the fleet by England, 117;
outwitted by _N._, 129;
the Spanish question discussed with, 158;
_N.'s_ proposed naval cooeperation with, 166;
the anti-French party in, 167, 195;
urged to occupy Warsaw, and parts of Prussia and Austria, 177;
_N._ makes technical call for the aid of, 198;
invades Galicia, 236;
acquires part of Galicia, 239;
menaced by the treaty of Schoenbrunn, 244;
news of the Austrian marriage in, 255;
treaty with Sweden, Sept. 17, 1809, 268;
evades the Continental System, 280;
Mme. de Stael in, 299;
rivalry of France, 309;
effects of the Continental System on, 310;
an incident that changed the course of history, 314, 315;
advances an army to the Danube, 314;
prepares for war, 314;
opens negotiations with England and Sweden, 316;
war with France inevitable, 317;
acquires a boundary on the Pruth, 321;
treaty with Sweden, April 12, 1812, 321;
withdraws troops from the Danube, 321;
thoroughness of _N.'s_ preparations for war with, 323-325;
Caulaincourt's knowledge of, 326;
agricultural distress in, 328;
concentration of troops in, 328;
intrigues leading to the war of 1812, 328-333;
ukase of Dec., 1810, 329;
the neutral trade of, 329;
Narbonne's mission from Dresden to, 331;
_N.'s_ scheme to expel her from Europe, 332;
_N.'s_ military knowledge of, 333, 334, 340;
menacing outlook for, 334;
_N.'s_ plan of campaign in, 333, 338;
disposition of her army, 335;
_N._ strikes the first blow at, 335;
military weakness, 336;
military enthusiasm in, 337;
sufferings of both armies in, 337, 357 et seq.;
battle of Smolensk, iii. 339;
"the Ney of," 339, 340;
despotic character of her government, 340;
lack of centralization in, 340, 374;
horrors of the campaign in, 340, 341;
_N._ fails to pass counterfeit money in, 341;
the lessons of Eylau and Austerlitz, 341;
_N.'s_ ignorance of the strength of feeling in, 342;
speculation on the Czar's military policy, 342;
battle of Borodino, 343-345, 346;
the Kremlin, 345, 347;
claims the honor of burning Moscow, 349;
temper of the peasantry, 350;
the Old Russian party for peace, 351;
Alexander's advisers, 351;
founding of the Russian Bible Society, 351;
English military mission to reorganize the army, 351;
causes of the French disasters in, 353;
_N.'s_ retreat from Moscow, 353-356;
partizan warfare in, 359;
adopting the tactics of Egypt in, 359;
the terror of _N.'s_ name in, 360, 363, 365;
her allies, Want and Winter, 360, 373;
massacre of French stragglers in, 362;
_N.'s_ contempt for, 363;
treatment of French prisoners in, 367;
hopes in, of capturing _N._, 367;
_N.'s_ excuse for defeat in, 372;
compared with Spain, 374;
poor generalship in, 374;
diminishing strength of, 382;
invades the grand duchy of Warsaw, 385;
treaty with Spain, July, 1812, 391;
Metternich seeks to embroil Sweden and, 395;
possession of Warsaw, 399;
apathy of, 403;
Nesselrode's appearance in, 409;
secret treaty of Reichenbach, 416, 421;
issues paper money, 417;
treaty with England, 417;
to maintain a standing army, 417;
guarantees a war loan, 417;
inaugurates the coalition of 1813, 424;
strength, iv. 6;
_N._ attempts to separate Prussia from, 17;
concludes alliance of Sept. 9, 1813, 22;
the campaign of 1813, 39;
at the Congress of Frankfort, 41;
anxiety for peace, 41;
troops on the Rhine, 55;
_N._ endeavors to separate Austria from, 75;
the triple alliance, 76;
treaty of Chaumont, 76;
suspicious of Schwarzenberg's attitude, 89;
barbarity of her troops, 102;
party to the treaty of Fontainebleau (April, 1814), 133;
Alexander proposes a home for _N._ in, 133;
attitude at Congress of Vienna, 144, 145;
quota of troops, 164;
member of the Vienna coalition, 164;
the campaign of the Hundred Days, 167 et seq.;
claims the glory of annihilating _N._, 214;
claims the right of overseeing the imprisonment of _N._, 225;
_N.'s_ horror of being sent to, 227;
expansion of, 298.
_See also_ =Alexander I=; =Paul I=; =St. Petersburg=.
=Rustan=, _N.'s_ body-servant, ii. 426; iii. 74; 410; iv. 134;
Queen Louisa's allusion to, at Tilsit, iii. 61.
=Rustchuk, Pasha of=, appointed grand vizir, iii. 162;
attempts to restore Selim III, 162.
S
=Saalburg=, military operations at, ii. 428.
=Saale, River=, military operations on the, ii. 429-433; iv. 19, 23, 25.
=Saar, River=, military operations on the, iv. 58.
=Sachsen, Gen.=, leads Neapolitan army against Rome, ii. 72.
=Sacken, Gen.=, in battle of Eylau, iii. 15;
checks Schwarzenberg, 369;
reinforces Bluecher at Montmirail, iv. 63;
held by Mortier, 74;
battle of Craonne, 78.
=St. Aignan=, French envoy to Saxon duchies, iv. 42;
imprisoned at Gotha, 42;
conducts negotiations with _N._, 42, 43, 45.
=St. Amand=, d'Erlon ordered to move on, iv. 186.
=St. Andre=, mayor of Mainz, anecdote concerning _N._ and, iii. 421.
=St. Bartholomew's Day=, fears of a repetition of the massacre of,
iv. 147.
="St. Bartholomew of privilege," the=, i. 110.
=St. Bernard range=, Austrian watch on the, ii. 170, 171.
_See also_ =Great St. Bernard=; =Little St. Bernard=.
=Saint-Cannat=, _N._ at, iv. 139.
=St. Cloud=, proposed councils at, ii. 101-104, 106, 109 et seq.;
Bernadotte plans to head a force at, 109;
Murat commanding guard at, 109;
the 18th and 19th Brumaire at, 111 et seq.; iv. 258;
_N._ declines a gift of, ii. 244;
promulgation of the decree creating the empire from, 322;
return of _N._ from Tilsit to, iii. 72;
social vices at, 92;
important levee at, Aug. 15, 1808, 169;
_N._ and Maria Louisa at, 258;
the imperial court at, 258;
_N._ returns to, iv. 39, 47.
=Saint-Cyr=, Elisa Buonaparte educated at, i. 55, 176, 182;
the Academy at, 176, 182.
=Saint-Cyr, Carra=, in battle of Aspern, iii. 220, 221.
=Saint-Cyr, Gen.=, military successes of, i. 274;
at battle of Biberach, ii. 167;
engagement on the Mettenberg, 168;
fails to come up at Messkirch, 167;
reinforces Moreau at Engen, 167;
enters Naples, 287;
ordered to occupy Naples, 362;
Villeneuve ordered to cooeperate with, 371;
at La Junquera, iii. 183.
=Saint-Cyr, Gouvion=, strength of his corps, March, 1812, iii. 324;
losses of his Bavarian corps in Russia, 337;
Wittgenstein resumes offensive against, 359;
junction with Victor, 360;
checks Wittgenstein, 361;
holds Dresden, iv. 7, 8, 25, 27;
battle of Dresden, 9;
sent to support Vandamme at Kulm, 15;
guarding roads from Bohemia, 18.
=St. Denis=, tumults at, i. 86;
restoration of the cathedral at, iii. 74;
defense of, iv. 109.
=St. Dizier=, military movements near, iv. 58, 60, 95;
_N._ at, 95, 96, 101;
military council at, 103.
=St. Florent=, _N._ prepares plans for its defense, i. 91;
French fleet at, 125;
disorders at, 126, 191;
expedition against Ajaccio from, 203-208;
French power in, 207;
English capture of, 260.
=St. George=, Provera at, i. 414.
=St. Gotthard Pass=, Suvaroff's disasters in, ii. 141;
French passage of, 169, 172-174;
Austrian watch on, 170.
=St. Helena=, _N.'s_ will made at, i. 127;
_N.'s_ reminiscent statements made at, 146, 232, 289, 306; ii. 47,
75, 79, 81, 118, 145, 208, 292; 311; iii. 85, 210, 277; iv. 16,
62, 153, 156, 177, 191;
_N.'s_ death at, ii. 82; iv. 234;
_N.'s_ ambition concerning, ii. 289;
early proposition to deport _N._ to, iv. 145;
chosen as the place of exile, 224-229;
_N.'s_ objections to the rock, 226;
special form of government for, 227, 229;
the voyage to, 227, 287;
landing of _N._ at, 229;
topography, climate, etc., 228, 232;
_N.'s_ life on, 229-235;
violent storm in, 234;
the exile's court at, 288.
=Saint-Hilaire, Gen.=, in battle of Austerlitz, ii. 386, 388;
in Eylau campaign, iii. 15.
=St. Ildefonso=, the treaties of, ii. 204.
=St. Jean d'Acre=.
_See_ =Acre=.
"=St. Jerome=," Correggio's, i. 374.
=St. Julien, Count=, blundering negotiations by, ii. 187, 188;
imprisonment of, 188.
=St. Lambert=, Grouchy ordered to, iv. 190;
Buelow at, 193.
=St. Leu=, proposal that Louis withdraw to, iii. 276.
=St. Mark=, actions at, i. 410, 412, 413.
=St. Maximin=, Lucien Buonaparte in, i. 238.
=St. Michael=, seizure of, by Massena, i. 436.
=St. Michel=, battle of, i. 410.
=St. Napoleon=, i. 39.
=St. Peter, island of=, capture, ii. 13.
=St. Peter's, Rome=, _N._ claims coronation in, ii. 396.
=St. Petersburg=, the French envoy dismissed from, ii. 348;
return of the Czar from Tilsit to, iii. 64;
the peace of Europe in, 65;
the French ambassador at, 87;
diplomatic intrigues at, 97;
Alexander fears for, 98;
diplomatic crisis in, 108, 109;
court intrigue in, 115;
terror of the British fleet in, 117;
situation at, 118;
social and diplomatic life in, 166;
Caulaincourt's mission to, 165, 168, 169;
Frederick William III at, 194;
news of the Austrian marriage at, 255;
_N._ threatens to march to, 304;
Lauriston sent to replace Caulaincourt at, 318;
defense of, 336;
demoralization at, 336;
military enthusiasm in, 337;
founding of the Russian Bible Society in, 351;
England's diplomacy in, 417.
_See also_ =Alexander I=; =Paul I=; =Russia=.
=St. Pierre=, arrest of the Prince of Monaco at, iv. 154.
=Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de=, rewards to, for literary work, iii. 297.
=St. Priest, Gen.=, captures Rheims, iv. 80;
killed at Rheims, 82.
=St. Quentin=, the canal of, ii. 349.
=St. Roch=, the melee at the church of, i. 301-303.
=Saint-Ruff, Abbe de=, _N.'s_ social relations with, i. 69, 81;
death of, 149.
=St. Stephen=, attack on, i. 192.
=St. Sulpice=, banquet to _N._ in church of, ii. 100, 101.
=St. Tropez=, _N.'s_ embarkation from, iv. 135, 137, 139;
place of _N.'s_ embarkation changed to Frejus, 139.
=Saladin=, founds the military organization of Mamelukes, ii. 58.
=Salamanca=, Sir John Moore at, iii. 186;
battle of, 290, 377;
defeat of Marmont at, iii. 343.
=Salicetti, Christopher=, represents Corsica in the National
Assembly, i. 116-121;
succeeds Buttafuoco, 133;
influence in Corsica, 185, 197, 204;
plans invasion of Sardinia, 187-189;
arrives in Corsica, 201;
relations with _N._ and influence on his career, 201, 202, 205-209,
219, 225, 228, 252-257;
adheres to France, 202;
defends the Corsican commission, 205;
arrives in Paris, 207;
heads a commission to Corsica, 219;
in siege of Toulon, 232, 233;
influence in France, 233;
plans expedition to Corsica, 233;
ambition, 238;
blamed for insurrection in Corsica, 254;
seeks his own safety, 254;
influence among the Thermidorians, 254, 255;
friendship with Mme. Permon, 285;
concealed by Mme. Permon, 285, 286;
_N.'s_ address to, 285, 286;
levies forced contributions in Genoa, 345;
plans of the Directory concerning, 364;
rapacity, 376;
duplicity, ii. 109, 110;
gives Genoa a consular constitution, 233.
=Salm=, member of the Confederation of the Rhine, ii. 403.
=Salo=, the revolutionary movement in, i. 436;
engagement at, 437, 441.
=Salzburg=, apportioned to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, ii. 266;
ceded to Austria, 391;
Lefebvre at, iii. 211;
embodied in the Confederation of the Rhine, 239.
=Sambre, River=, military movements on the, iv. 170, 173-175, 181.
=Sampiero=, i. 14;
resemblance to _N._, 26;
_N.'s_ sketch of, 92.
=Sand, George=, in Madrid during the war, iii. 292.
=San Domingo=, influence of Louverture in, ii. 237;
declares its independence, 237;
unsuccessful attempt to conquer, 237;
failure of _N.'s_ ambition concerning, 289;
plan for French recovery of, 333.
=Sandoz-Rollin=, Prussian minister in Paris, ii. 31.
=San Giuliano=, military operations at, ii. 178, 179.
=San Miniato=, the Buonaparte family in, i. 30.
=Sansculottes, the=, i. 249.
=Sansculottides, the=, i. 249.
=San Sebastian=, captured by the French, iii. 132.
=Santa Lucia=, French plans to strengthen, ii. 333.
=Santander=, besieged by Bessieres, iii. 156.
=Santarem=, Massena withdraws toward, iii. 286;
"Marshal Stockpots" deserters at, 291.
=Santerre, A. J.=, leader of the mob of Aug. 10, 1792, i. 178;
favored by _N._, 178;
_N.'s_ threat against, ii. 108.
="Santissima Trinidad," the=, at Trafalgar, ii. 374.
=Santon, Mount= (Austerlitz), ii. 386, 387.
=Saorgio=, _N._ at taking of, i. 255.
=Saragossa=, siege of, iii. 154-159, 184-186.
=Sardinia=, weakness of, i. 22;
compared with Corsica, 25;
hostilities between France and, 187-193, 196, 206, 214, 243, 247,
261, 262;
goes to defense of Toulon, 221;
operations in Piedmont, in 1794, 341;
revolutionary spirit in, 345;
signs armistice, 350, 354, 356;
Victor Amadeus, king of, 352;
conclusion of peace with France (1796), 363, 364, 400;
_N._ opens negotiations with, ii. 11;
provoked by France into Italian quarrels, 87;
_N.'s_ bad faith with, 144;
Russia demands indemnity for the king of, 330, 417-418;
Prussia bound to secure indemnity for king of, 377.
=Sardinia, island of=, Charles Emmanuel king of, i. 356;
Charles Emmanuel retires to, ii. 39, 141;
Nelson seeks shelter at, 57.
=Sart-a-Walhain=, Grouchy's movements via, iv. 188, 193.
=Sarzana=, the Buonaparte family in, i. 27.
=Satschan Lake=, Russian disasters at, ii. 388.
=Saumarez, Sir James=, blockades the Russian fleet, iii. 117.
=Sauvinieres=, military movements near, iv. 185.
=Savary, Gen.=, aide-de-camp to _N._, ii. 306;
share in Duc d'Enghien's trial and execution, 306, 308-310;
mission to Alexander I at Austerlitz, 382, 383;
reports interview of Alexander I with _N._, 389;
unsavory career, 412;
marries Mlle. de Coigny, 412;
in Eylau campaign, iii. 13;
on _N.'s_ mental and personal vigor, 19;
expels the Russians from the Narew and Ostrolenka, 19;
in battle of Heilsberg, 29;
report of the meeting at Tilsit, 41;
accompanies the Czar to St. Petersburg, 64;
French ambassador to Russia, 98, 105;
influence over the Czar, 64;
disliked in Russia, 64;
created Duke of Rovigo, 86;
mission to Madrid, 142, 143;
recognizes Ferdinand as king, 143;
reproached by Ferdinand, 143;
encourages Ferdinand to rely on _N._, 143, 144;
accompanies Ferdinand toward Bayonne, 143, 144;
notifies Ferdinand of his deposition, 145;
hatred of, in Paris, 275;
minister of police, 275, 376;
episode of the Malet conspiracy, 376;
provides for time of danger, 51;
records _N._ correspondence, 97;
alarm for the safety of Paris, 97;
member of the Empress-regent's council, 105;
character, 105;
reproved by _N._, 107;
Talleyrand to, on the flight of the Empress, 109;
surprises Talleyrand and De Pradt together, 109;
accompanies _N._ to Rochefort, 219;
negotiations with Capt. Maitland, 223.
=Save, River=, territory on, ceded to France, iii. 239.
=Savigny, F. K. von=, characterization of the Code, ii. 223.
=Savona=, military operations at, i. 253, 352, 353; ii. 160;
imprisonment of Pius VII at, iii. 243, 306.
=Savoy=, military operations against, in Piedmont, i. 213;
captured by France, 222;
France's ambition to conquer, 276;
France's claims to, 327;
lost to Sardinia, 352;
Kellermann in, 365;
Chabran's forces in, ii. 169;
proposal that France should keep, iv. 41.
=Savoy, House of, the=, French schemes against, i. 187;
importance of France gaining over, 342;
its system of government, 345;
vicissitudes, 352;
Francis I's hostility to, ii. 141;
loses the support of Paul I, 232;
lineage, 317.
=Saxe-Gotha=, accepts French terms after Jena, ii. 443;
spread of liberal ideas in, 443.
=Saxe-Weimar=, accepts French terms after Jena, ii. 443;
spread of liberal ideas in, 443.
=Saxony=, withdraws from the coalition, i. 385;
neutrality of, 1796, 385;
seizure of the English minister to, ii. 330;
excluded from the Confederation of the Rhine, 403;
proposal to include her in North German Confederation, 418;
reported French advance on, 420;
proposed independence for, 420;
military movements in, 424-425;
alliance with Prussia, 429;
takes part in the Jena campaign, 443;
spread of liberal ideas in, 443;
abandons Prussia and adopts neutrality, 443;
proposed exchange of territories, iii. 50;
united with the Rhine Confederation, 56;
acquires Kottbus, 62;
independence, 73;
the Archduke Charles proposes to march into, 198;
furnishes troops to France, 202;
troops in Dresden, 203, 324;
defeated at Nossen by the Black Legion, 234;
in vassalage to France, 279;
supports _N._, 322;
the levies in, 387;
peculiar relations toward _N._, 394;
turns to Austria, 394;
threatened war in, 394;
secret agreement with Austria, 399;
Prussian designs on, 399;
the campaign of 1813 in, 401 et seq.; iv. 1;
strategy of the campaign in, iii. 404;
abandons Austria, 407;
declares in favor of France, 407;
proposed allotment of territory to, 409;
Prussia promises to cede part of, to Hanover, 417;
invaded by Austro-Russian troops, iv. 8;
national spirit in, 19;
revulsion of feeling against France, 20, 22;
refuge of the allies in, 24;
defection of troops at Leipsic, 33;
character of the campaigns in, 38.
=Say, J. B.=, member of the tribunate, ii. 151.
=Scandinavia=, effort to bring her into the coalition, iii. 22.
=Schaffhausen=, _N._ plans operations at, ii. 163.
=Scharnhorst, Gen.=, plan of the Prussian campaign, ii. 427-429;
in battle of Eylau, iii. 16;
institutes military reforms in Prussia, 103, 161;
mission to Vienna, 320;
hostility to _N._, 396;
limits to his means, 403;
killed at Luetzen, 406.
=Scheldt, River, the=, reopening of, i. 194;
closing the navigation of, 450;
a French river, iii. 270;
scheme of Hanoverian extension on, 399.
=Scherer, Gen.=, commanding the Army of Italy, i. 344;
ordered to upper Italy, ii. 88;
driven behind the Mincio and Oglio, 88;
defeated at Magnano, 88;
succeeded by Moreau, 88;
incompetency, 88, 91.
=Schill, F. von=, _N.'s_ abuse of, iii. 213;
attempts to rouse the German spirit, 213;
final stand and death at Stralsund, 213, 233;
helps insurrection in Westphalia, 225;
denounced by Frederick William, 233.
=Schimmelpenninck, R. J.=, Grand Pensionary of the Batavian Republic,
ii. 233;
represents the Batavian Republic at Amiens, 262;
intrigues to make Louis Buonaparte king of Holland, 397.
=Schlapanitz=, military operations near, ii. 385.
=Schleiermacher, F. E. D.=, member of the reform party in Prussia,
ii. 416;
influence on Prussian regeneration, iii. 103.
=Schleiz=, engagement at, ii. 428.
=Schleswig=, Denmark's loss of, iii. 70.
=Schloditten=, military operations near, iii. 14.
=Schoenbrunn=, _N._ establishes headquarters in palace at (1805),
ii. 369, 378; (1809) iii. 212;
interview between _N._ and Haugwitz at, ii. 399;
treaties of, 417; iii. 241, 244, 252;
_N.'s_ proclamations from, 215;
_N._ leaves for the Lobau, 226;
Prince Liechtenstein at, 239;
accident to _N._ near, 240;
attempt to assassinate _N._ at, 240;
_N._ returns to Paris from, 245;
virtual imprisonment of Maria Louisa at, iv. 143.
=Schrattenthal=, Kutusoff at, ii. 379.
=Schwarzenberg, Prince=, reliance on Peccadeuc, i. 65;
Austrian minister to France, iii. 253;
suggests the marriage of _N._ and Maria Louisa, 253;
toasts the King of Rome, 261;
commands Austrian contingent in Russian campaign of 1812, 324;
in Volhynia, 338;
holds back Tormassoff, 341;
opposed by Tormassoff and Tchitchagoff, 350;
retreats behind the Bug, 358;
expected to cover the crossing of the Beresina, 363;
driven back, 366;
checked by Sacken, 369;
lukewarmness, 382;
retreats across the Vistula, 385;
evacuates Warsaw, 385;
seeks shelter in Cracow, 393;
held back by Metternich, 395;
commanding the Army of the South, iv. 3;
hampered by presence of the allied sovereigns, 3;
military incapacity, cowardice, and reputation, 6, 64, 69, 89, 90-94;
_N._ moves against, 8;
battle of Dresden, 9;
Vandamme's pursuit of, 15;
Murat fails to check, 17;
protects Austria from invasion, 18;
moves on Dresden, 18;
southern movement by, 21;
gets to southward of Leipsic, 22;
Murat ordered to hold, 23;
contemplated attack on, 23;
proposed junction of Bluecher and Bernadotte with, 26;
battle of Wachau, 28;
battle of Leipsic, 27-32;
suggests compromise plan of invasion of France, 57, 58;
at Langres, 58;
crosses the Rhine at Basel, 58;
movement toward Auxerre, 60;
junction with Bluecher, 60;
strength, Feb. 9, 1814, 62;
_N.'s_ contemplated movement against, 62-65;
steady advance of, 65;
crosses Switzerland, 67;
danger of his advancing to Fontainebleau, 72;
sends flag of truce to Berthier, 73;
retreats to Troyes, 73;
quails before _N.'s_ advance, 73;
Macdonald and Oudinot in pursuit of, 73;
checks Oudinot, 73;
strength at Troyes, 74;
withdraws behind the Aube, 74;
justifies his course, 74;
at Bar-sur-Aube, 74;
_N._ prepares to attack, 74;
at Congress of Chatillon, 77;
Bluecher cut off from, 77, 78;
_N._ plans to attack him at Chalons, 77;
regains communications with Bluecher, 80;
moves against Macdonald, 84;
dismayed at the capture of Rheims, 85;
supposed retreat to the Vosges, 86;
engagements at Arcis and Torcy, 87;
sickness, 89, 90;
on the European policy of 1814, 88;
retreats to Troyes, 90;
_N._ misled by his actions, 90;
apprehensions of _N.'s_ strength, 92;
strength, 92;
battle of Arcis-sur-Aube, 93;
Bluecher seeks a junction with, 94;
his communications threatened, 95, 96;
junction with Bluecher, 95, 97;
favors movement on Paris, 98;
determines to seek a battle, 98;
proposes to pursue _N._, 100;
at peace council in Paris, 114;
enters Paris with the allies, 114;
seduces Marmont, 119;
sows treason in the French army, 120;
Marmont reveals his plot to, 125;
plan for the campaign of the Hundred Days, 169.
=Schweidnitz=, the allied forces near, iii. 413;
_N.'s_ strategy at, 413.
=Science=, _N._ advises encouragement of, ii. 347.
=Scrivia, River, the=, Ott driven back to, ii. 176;
the country of, 176-178.
=Sebastiani, Gen. F. H. B.=, mission to Persia and the Levant,
ii. 272-274;
obtains thorough knowledge of the East, ii. 440;
strategy and diplomacy at Constantinople, 20;
end of his influence in Turkey, 33;
defeats a Spanish division, 237;
moves up the Aube, iv. 91;
battle of Arcis-sur-Aube, 92.
=Secret police=, license vice, iii. 92.
=Segovia=, French success at, iii. 156.
=Segur, Count=, minister to Russia, ii. 324;
appointed master of ceremonies at the Tuileries, 324, 328;
foresees France's discontent, iii. 326;
transfers his allegiance to Louis XVIII, iv. 132;
plans the ratification of the Additional Act, 166.
=Seine, River, the=, the quays of, iii. 74;
military movements on the, iv. 65, 69, 71, 73, 85, 90, 104, 112, 116.
=Selim III=, dismisses viceroys of Moldavia and Wallachia, ii. 441;
moves against Russia, 441;
declares war against England, iii. 20;
overthrow of, 33, 51, 106, 162;
held prisoner in the Seraglio, 162;
murdered by Mustapha IV, 162.
=Semaphore=, use of, in warfare, iii. 205.
=Semlino=, disposition of the spoils of Moscow at, iii. 358.
=Semonville, Huguet de=, envoy to Constantinople, i. 197;
dreads a new Terror, ii. 94.
=Senancour, S. P. de=, "Obermann," ii. 351.
=Senarmont, Gen.=, in battle of Friedland, iii. 31.
=Senate, the=, in 1799; ii. 126, 127, 150-153;
orders deportation of suspects, 241;
subservience to _N._, 242-244;
new methods of electing to, 247;
enlargement of its powers, 247;
the tool of the First Consul, 320;
steps toward creating the empire, 319-322;
changes in, under the constitution of 1804, 322;
announces the result of the plebiscite, 341;
substitution of a hereditary house for the elective, iii. 82;
its members ennobled, 87;
confirms the divorce, 247;
decrees the annexation of the Papal States, 262;
decadence of constitutional forms in, 295;
speech of Maria Louisa before the, iv. 106;
ordered to draft a new constitution, 114;
absolves the army from allegiance to _N._, 119;
proclaims Louis XVIII, 129, 132.
=Sens=, military movements near, iv. 62, 68;
proposal to continue the war from a center at, 103;
_N._ at, 105;
the French garrison at, 118.
"=Sentimental Journey to Nuits,"= _N.'s_, i. 146.
=September 22=, celebration of, ii. 195.
=Serfdom=, at outbreak of the Revolution, i. 102;
abolished in Warsaw, iii. 67.
=Serpalten=, military operations near, iii. 14.
=Serurier, Gen.=, general of division, Army of Italy, i. 345;
at siege of Mantua, 415, 418;
storms Gradisca, 433;
delivers Venice to Austria, ii. 24;
action on the 18th Brumaire, 105;
commanding at the Point-du-Jour, 108;
excites the soldiery at St. Cloud, 116;
recreated marshal, iv. 167.
=Serves=, _N._ visits, i. 141.
=Servia=, the rise of, iv. 300.
=Seurre=, disorders in, i. 96.
=Seventh Regiment of the Line=, supports _N._ on his return from
Elba, iv. 156.
=Seven Years' War, the=, i. 17, 22; iv. 261, 296.
=Sextuple Alliance, the=, iv. 295.
=Seychelles=, deportation of suspects to the, ii. 241.
=Sezanne=, _N._ at, iv. 61;
Marmont at, 74;
_N.'s_ plan of movement via, 85.
=Shebreket=, Mameluke attack on the French at, ii. 59;
action at, 61.
=Shipping=, harassing regulations by France, ii. 269.
=Shuvaloff, Count=, Russian commissioner at Poischwitz, iii. 414, 417.
=Sicily=, Ferdinand IV king of, i. 421; iii. 319;
Nelson seeks the Egyptian expedition at, ii. 57;
Nelson returns to, 61;
Joseph made king of, 395, 401;
proposal that the Bourbons retain power in, 401;
_N._ offers England territory as substitute for, 404, 405;
England demands the surrender of, 405;
withdrawal of English troops from, iii. 111;
proposed French seizure of, 111, 112;
English troops sent to Portugal from, 122;
England threatened with loss of trade with, 272;
English expedition to, 284, 294;
French expedition against, 308.
=Siena=, Pius VI withdraws to, ii. 39;
position in the French Empire, iii. 279.
=Sierra Morena=, defeat of Dupont in, iii. 156.
=Sieyes, Abbe=, pamphlet of the Third Estate, i. 107, 330;
character, 330, 331; ii. 92;
declines service in the Directory, i. 330, 331;
relations with _N._, 330, 331; ii. 35, 49, 94, 100-102;
president of the Ancients, 35;
venality, 35;
mission to Berlin, 41;
checkmates Prussia, 43;
charged with tampering with Bernadotte, 43;
theories of government, constitution-building, etc., 49, 96,
100-102, 117, 118, 125, 126, 149, 322;
member of the Directory, 83, 92;
relations with Joubert, 92;
schemes for a dictatorship, 94, 95;
suspected of plotting with the House of Brunswick, 95;
brought into the Bonapartist ranks, 96-98;
surrenders his leadership, 100;
proposed resignation of, 101;
scheme to make him consul, 102;
difficulty of holding him in the traces, 102, 103;
resigns from the Directory, 106, 115;
at St. Cloud, 19th Brumaire, 111;
consul of France, 123;
proceedings for election of First Consul, 129;
accepts the estate of Crosne, 130;
chief of the Senate, 129, 130;
keeper of the Directory's secret funds, 129;
negotiations and intrigues in Prussia, 155, 156;
relations with the Directory, 155;
monarchical schemes for France, 155, 156.
=Siguenza=, Castanos collects his troops at, iii. 185.
=Silesia=, wrested from Austria by Prussia, i. 325;
Austria seeks compensation for, 325;
Austria's ambition concerning, ii. 358;
offer of part of, to Austria, ii. 445;
military operations in, iii. 20; iv. 17;
_N._ offers it to Austria, iii. 22;
_N.'s_ reserve forces in, 22;
Prussia retains her strongholds in, 42;
position in Europe, 55;
remains Prussian, 55, 56;
_N._ offers to offset the Danubian principalities against, 106-108,
112;
French occupation, 116;
Alexander demands relinquishment of designs on, 116;
Davout ordered to, 165;
Austria stipulates for acquisition of, 320;
to be connected with Old Prussia, 398;
Austria rejects _N.'s_ offer of, 400;
the Army of the East in, iv. 3;
contemplated operations in, 7;
military operations in, 17;
strength of her forces under Bluecher, 62;
army of, moves on Paris, 98.
=Silk culture=, introduced into Corsica, i. 80.
=Simplon=, creation of the department of the, iii. 278.
=Simplon Pass=, to pass under French control, ii. 40;
the crossing of the, 169, 172;
military road through, 233, 349; iii 74.
=Sisteron=, _N.'s_ welcome at, on return from Elba, iv. 154.
=Slave-trade=, revival of the, ii. 236, 237, 245, 269, 270;
England protests against, 270.
=Slobozia=, armistice concluded at, iii. 105;
treaty of, 163.
=Smith, Adam=, _N.'s_ study of, i. 78.
=Smith, Sir Sidney=, captures French transports, ii. 71;
at the siege of Acre, 71, 73;
occupies Jaffa, 75;
watching _N._ at Alexandria, 79;
allows _N._ to slip through his fingers, 82;
puts into Cyprus, 82;
concludes treaty at El Arish, 181;
commanding British fleet at Lisbon, iii. 121;
urges Don John to embark for Brazil, 121.
=Smohain=, the farms of, iv. 195;
fighting at, 206.
=Smolensk=, _N.'s_ plan to seize, iii. 333;
military movements near, 333, 336-340, 350, 355, 356, 362;
enthusiasm among the Russians at, iii. 338;
strategical position, 338;
battle of, 338-341;
_N.'s_ military blunder at, 340-343;
the shrine at, 339, 343;
compared with Acre, 340;
French garrison in, 342, 358;
concentration of French troops at, iii. 347;
guerrilla warfare around, 350;
arrival of the French army at, in its retreat, 362;
massacre of French stragglers in, 362;
shameful scenes in, 362;
abandonment of wounded at, 363;
the march to Lithuania from, 363;
reorganization of the army at, 363;
destruction of the fortifications of, 363;
Ney's perilous retreat from, 364.
=Smorgoni=, _N.'s_ desertion of his army at, iii. 373, 375.
=Social contract=, _N.'s_ views concerning the, i. 77, 267.
=Social customs, privileges=, etc., i. 100-103;
_N.'s_ study of, 137, 138, 145, 150.
=Soedermannland, Duke of=, attempts the siege of Hameln, ii. 416.
=Soignes=, fears of Wellington's withdrawal behind, iv. 190;
Wellington's position in front of, 192, 195.
=Soissons=, Maria Louisa's progress through, iii. 257;
Mortier at, iv. 74, 86;
Bluecher recruits his forces at, 76;
surrenders to the allies, 77, 83;
French retreat to, 80;
_N._ at, 80;
the French army leaves, 81.
=Sokolnitz=, fighting at, ii. 385-388.
=Solano, Gen.=, makes ineffectual movement against the French, iii. 149.
=Solothurn=, the plundering of, ii. 40.
=Solre=, Gen. d'Erlon at, iv. 170.
=Sombreffe=, military movements near, iv. 171, 175-180.
=Somerset, Gen. F. J. H.=, in battle of Waterloo, iv. 202.
=Sommepuis=, military movements near, iv. 91.
=Sommesous=, military movements near, iv. 91.
=Somosierra=, crossing the pass of, iii. 186.
=Sophia Dorothea=, wife of Jerome, iii. 322.
=Sortlack, Forest of=, military movements in the, iii. 30.
=Souham, Gen.=, in battle of Leipsic, iv. 32;
at Nogent, 102;
left in command at Essonnes, 124;
seduced by Marmont, 125;
summoned to Fontainebleau, 126;
delivers his army prisoners to the Austrians, 126, 127.
=Soult, Marshal=, commanding force at Tarentum, ii. 204;
service in the Army of England, 291;
created marshal, 323;
character, 364; iii. 286;
seizes Memmingen, ii. 366;
reaches Hollabrunn, 379;
battle of Austerlitz, 384-388;
at Muenchberg, 428;
battle of Jena, 429-432;
invests Magdeburg, 436;
battle of Pultusk, iii. 4;
strength in Poland, 7;
campaign of Eylau, 15;
at Osterode, 18;
battle of Heilsberg, 28;
pursues Lestocq from Friedland, 31;
created Duke of Dalmatia, 86;
yearly income, 87, 296;
movement against Blake, 185;
lack of vigor of movement, 185;
ordered to Mansilla, 188;
entrusted with the pursuit of Moore, 189;
battle of Corunna, 188;
crosses the Esla, 188;
defeated by Wellesley in Portugal, 236;
causes Wellesley to withdraw, 237;
service in Spain, 284;
ordered to Andalusia, 286;
ordered to join Massena in Portugal, 286;
jealousy of Massena, 286;
before Cadiz, 286;
fails to relieve Massena, 286;
defeated in attack on Sir John Moore, 286;
captures Badajoz, 287;
invasion of Portugal (1809), 287;
occupies Oporto, 287;
expelled from Portugal, 287;
failure in Spain, 287;
battle of Talavera, 287;
made commander-in-chief, 287;
bickerings with Joseph, 287;
battle of Ocana, 287, 288;
aims to win the crown of Portugal, 287, 296;
retreats toward the south coast, 289;
returns to Cadiz, 289;
defeated at Albuera, 289;
marches to relief of Badajoz, 289;
joins Massena, 289;
marches to Joseph's aid, 290;
abandons Cadiz, 290;
despatched on Pyrenean campaign, 421;
shut up in Bayonne, iv. 40;
thrown back on Toulouse, 81;
strength, March, 1814, 102;
available forces of, 118;
defeat at Toulouse, 148;
appointed minister of war, 148;
revival of imperial sentiment in his army, 157;
opposed to Murat, 157;
recreated marshal, 167;
chief of staff in the Waterloo campaign, 171, 190;
blunder before Charleroi, 173, 174;
cognizant of Bluecher's movement to Wavre, 191;
orders to Grouchy, 194, 214;
battle of Waterloo, 204;
on inspiration, 248.
=Sound, the=, threats to close it to English commerce, iii. 69.
=South America=, Spanish concessions to France in, ii. 205;
England's commerce with, iii. 55;
England threatens to make Spanish colonies independent, 71.
=Spain=, affinity with Corsica, i. 9;
Bourbon influence in, 22;
expected enmity of, i. 187;
goes to defense of Toulon, 221;
blockades Mediterranean ports, 239;
_N.'s_ relations with, and attitude toward, 247; ii. 18, 203,
et seq., 289, 332, 405; iii. 54, 71, 127, 131, 139, 149, 151,
157, 178, 190, 280 et seq., 293, 307, 319; iv. 30, 52;
growth of liberal ideas in, i. 276;
withdraws from the coalition (1795), 324;
relations and alliances with France, 341, 421; ii. 203-206,
288-290, 332, 349, 358, 359, 371; iii. 78, 120, 132, 190;
_N._ proposes to hand Rome over to, i. 420;
drives Admiral Mann from the Mediterranean, 421;
destruction of fleet off Cape St. Vincent, 456;
diplomatic offset of Naples against, ii. 18;
war with Portugal, 18;
preparations for action in, 37;
schemes of revolutionary propaganda for, 44;
naval inaction, 67;
low intrigues in, 204;
effect of Marengo in, 204;
Godoy prime minister, 204;
proposed incorporation of Portugal with, 211;
recovers colonies under the peace of Amiens, 262;
exchanges Louisiana for Etruria, 272;
England attacks her commerce, 289;
exasperated over sale of Louisiana, 289;
treaties with France, 289, 332;
loses Trinidad and Louisiana, 332;
war with England, Dec., 1804, 332;
her maritime forces controlled by France, 332;
humiliates Portugal, 332;
naval power shattered at Trafalgar, 374;
_N._ offers part of her territory to England, 405;
called on for troops by France, iii. 22;
proposal that she acquire Portugal, 67;
attempt to bring her into the coalition, 71;
incapacity of the Bourbons in, 70;
_N._ encourages dissensions in, 71;
decay and humiliation, 71, 123, 126, 134, 150;
revolt against Godoy, 70;
embargo on English commerce, 72;
the fleet ordered to Toulon, 71;
necessity for the "regulation" of her affairs, 111;
the situation in, 118;
secret compact with France for partition of Portugal, 120;
new title for the king, 120;
plans for invasion of, 120;
scheme to acquire Portugal, 120;
depletion of the army, 123;
depopulation, 124;
corruption, 124;
social life, 124;
degradation of the Church in, 124;
primogeniture and land tenure, 124;
factions of the crown prince and of the prime minister, 125;
_N._ tempted by her colonies, 127, 133;
arrest of the crown prince, 126;
fortifying the French frontier, 126;
announcement of the crown prince's conspiracy, 127;
the "secret hand" in, 128;
expected regeneration by France, 127;
Dupont ordered to invade, 128;
benefits accruing to England from troubles in, 131;
_N._ on the intestinal troubles in, 131;
the crown given to Joseph, 131, 150, 169, 280, 318;
French invasion and occupation of, 132-135, 149, 151;
deposition of Godoy from office, 134;
Murat assumes command in, 135;
popular outbreaks, 135, 140;
abdication of Charles IV, 136;
patriotic and national spirit in, 137-141, 151-156, 284, 288, 290;
iv. 290;
enthusiasm for Ferdinand VII, iii. 138;
political intrigues in, 139-141;
Murat Protector of, 140;
attitude of the people toward Murat, 141;
deposition of the Bourbons, 145;
Murat appointed dictator, 146;
_N._ assumes the royal and hereditary rights of the throne of, 148;
Louis refuses the crown of, 148;
military movements in western Spain and on the Baltic, 149;
character of the people, 149-152, 153, 154, 190, 288;
convocation of notables at Bayonne, 149;
adoption of a new constitution, 150, 152;
destruction of her commerce, 152;
lack of centralization in, 151, 152, 374;
guerrilla warfare, iii. 152-155, 190, 291;
influence of the clergy in the rebellion, 154;
French disasters in, 154, 290, 291;
fate of French soldiers in, 155;
French movement against southern, 156;
French pillage in, 158;
national uprising against France, 158, 192;
difficulties of the French campaign in, 157;
offer of the throne to Archduke Charles, 166;
_N._ returns to, 182;
caliber of the French army in, 183;
_N.'s_ strength in, Nov. 3, 1808, 183, 184;
regular and irregular forces, 184;
_N._ assumes command in, 184;
lack of military genius in, 185;
Sir John Moore enters, 186;
sympathy between Portugal and, 186;
abolition of the Inquisition and of the feudal system, 189;
_N._ institutes reforms in, 189;
formation of a liberal constitution for, 191;
_N._ threatens to assume the crown, 191;
question of annihilating its nationality, 191;
statements as to _N.'s_ leaving, 196;
reinforcements for, 202;
Wellesley prepares for invasion of, 236;
need of prompt action in, 238;
the war in, 249;
the crown offered to Louis and rejected, 270;
England's loss of trade with, 272;
Fouche's offer to restore the Bourbons to, 271;
seizures of American ships in, 275;
annexation of part of, to France, 278;
open warfare in, 282;
seizure of northern provinces of, 282;
"the natural continuation of France," 282;
policy of total annexation, 282;
French rapine in, 282;
policy of military administration for, 282;
quality and strength of the French armies in, 283;
Massena in command in, 283;
Wellington's provisions for French victories in, 284;
blunders by the insurrectionary leaders, 288;
Wellington enters, 289;
French occupation, close of 1812, 290;
Soult abandons the south of, 290;
discipline of the French army in, 291;
England's expeditions to, 293;
confiscation in, 296;
troops withdrawn from Germany for service in, 307;
_N.'s_ offer of peace in, refused by England, 318;
England to be driven from, 328;
compared with Russia, 374;
French disasters in, 377;
exhaustion of, 382;
recall of commanders from, 386;
treaty with Russia, July, 1812, 391;
in grand coalition against _N._, 392;
_N._ offers peace to England in, 392;
Wellington's reverses in, 392;
proposal to restore Bourbon rule, 416;
_N._ abandons, 420;
Wellington's successes in, 423;
French defeats in, iv. 14;
_N._ offers to restore the independence of, 30;
rises in support of Wellington, 40;
proposed independence of, 41;
prolongation of the war in, 51;
restoration of the king to, 52;
relapses into absolutism and ecclesiasticism, 52;
adoption of a new constitution, 52;
member of the Vienna coalition, 164;
_N.'s_ dread of capture in, 221.
=Spandau=, capitulation of, ii. 436;
proposed siege of, iv. 2.
=Spartel, Cape=, Nelson's fleet off, ii. 372.
=Specialist=, the work of the, iv. 251.
=Speculation=, mania for, in France, i. 288, 289; ii. 219.
=Spirding, Lake=, military movements near, iii. 10.
=Splueglen Pass=, proposed movement of the reserve army via, ii. 169;
crossed by Macdonald, 192.
=Spree, River=, military movements on the, iii. 407, 409; iv. 14.
=Stadion, Count=, Austrian diplomatic agent, ii. 381;
Austrian minister of state, iii. 21, 104, 194, 199;
letter from Metternich, July 26, 1807, 104;
urges prompt action, 199;
resigns, 253;
mission to the allies' camp, 408.
=Stael, Mme. de=, relations with, enmity toward, and criticisms of
_N._, ii. 22, 119, 139, 197, 199, 259; iii. 94, 297-301;
procures revocation of Talleyrand's exile, ii. 34;
_N.'s_ study of her writings, 53;
"Influence of the Passions," 53;
on liberty in France, 119;
her salon, 199;
her character, 259; iii. 297-301;
banishments of, ii. 411;
relations with Mme. Recamier, ii. 411, 412;
returns to Paris, iii. 26;
ordered back to Geneva, 26;
at Coppet, 298;
difficulties with the Directory, 298;
criticizes Josephine Beauharnais, 298;
difficulties with the Committee of Public Safety, 298;
poverty, 299;
her book on Germany, 300.
=Stage=, censorship of the, ii. 349.
=Standing armies=, i. 67.
=Staps=, attempts to assassinate _N._, iii. 240.
=Starhemberg, Count=, Austrian ambassador to London, iii, 104;
leaves London, 104.
=Starsiedel=, fighting at, iii, 406.
=State=, _N.'s_ conceptions of the, i. 78.
=State system=, the, iv. 298.
=States of the Church=, Pius VII strives to augment the, ii. 346.
=Steffens, Prof.=, summons German students into the ranks, iii. 398.
=Stein, Baron H. F. C.=, Prussian statesman, ii. 415; iii. 103;
frees the serfs, 103;
introduces military reforms in Prussia, 162;
resigns his ministry, 162;
_N._ demands his dismissal, 162, 178;
seeks refuge in Vienna, 178;
exile from Prussia, 193;
effect of his reforms, 320;
adviser to Alexander I, 351;
reorganizes Prussian provinces, 385;
formulates the treaty of Kalish, 385;
relations with Alexander, 385, 396;
hostility to _N._, 397; iv. 57, 67;
joins Frederick William at Breslau, iii. 396;
on the unification of Germany, 397;
character, 397;
leading part in Prussia's awakening, 398;
prepares to govern the conquered territories, iv. 34.
=Sterling, Adm.=, naval operations of, ii. 359.
=Stettin=, capitulation of, ii. 436;
Davout's force in, 202;
proposed French movement on, 393;
held by the French, 402;
relief of the French in, iv. 2.
=Stewart, Sir Charles=, English minister at Berlin, iii. 417;
influences the armistice of Poischwitz, 417.
=Steyer=, armistice signed at, ii. 192.
=Stockach=, battle of, ii. 88;
captured by Lecourbe, 166.
=Stockholm=, installation of Bernadotte at, iii. 281.
"=Stockpot, Marshal=," iii. 291.
=Stoetteritz=, fighting at, iv. 33.
=Strabo=, _N.'s_ study of, i. 78.
=Stradella=, Desaix commanding corps at, ii. 177;
fortified camp at, 175;
military operations near, 185.
=Stralsund=, threatened by Mortier iii., 19;
Schill's final stand at, 213, 234;
capture of, 234.
=Strasburg=, Moreau's army at, i. 347;
Moreau and Desaix cross the Rhine near, 440;
retirement of Cardinal Rohan from, ii. 301;
imprisonment of Duc d'Enghien at, 304, 305;
French expeditions to, 304; iii. 203;
Caulaincourt's mission to, 107;
Maria Louisa's progress through, 257;
Schwarzenberg's communications with, threatened, iv. 95, 96;
sends troops to relief of Paris, 102.
=Strebersdorf=, military operations near, iii. 217, 218.
=Street of Peace, the=, iii. 74.
=Street of Rivoli, the=, iii. 74.
=Strehla=, fighting near, iv. 9.
=Striefen=, fighting near, iv. 9.
=Striegau=, Bluecher at, iv. 3, 6.
=Stuart=, British envoy to Vienna, ii. 302.
"=Study in Politics, A=," projected by _N._, i. 289.
=Studjenka=, the passage of the Beresina at, iii. 368-371.
=Stura, River, the=, Massena's advance through valley of, i. 243;
Austrian force on, ii. 170.
=Stuttgart=, Bourrienne in diplomacy at, i. 174;
machinations of Mehee de la Touche in, ii. 297, 298;
expulsion of the English envoy at, 330.
=Styria=, junction of Austrian troops in. ii. 367;
Prince Eugene in, iii. 225;
Archduke John banished to, 230.
=Suchet, Marshal Louis-Gabriel=, retreat before Melas, ii. 165;
expected to attack Melas, 170;
military operations on the Var, 174;
pursues the Russians, 378;
battle of Austerlitz, 387;
service in Spain, iii. 283;
annihilates Blake's Spanish army, 289;
captures Aragon and Valencia, 289;
captures Tarragona, 377;
contrasted with Augereau, iv. 94;
strength, March, 1814, 102;
available forces of, 118.
=Sucy=, _N.'s_ letters to, i. 165;
prophesies as to _N.'s_ future, ii. 28.
=Suez, Isthmus of=, importance of, ii. 46.
=Suez Canal=, suggested by D'Argenson, ii. 46.
=Suicide=, _N.'s_ views concerning, and his attempts to commit,
i. 80, 81; ii. 75; iv. 130, 131, 217, 232, 287.
=Sunday=, resumption of its observance, ii. 258.
="Supper of Beaucaire," the=, i. 212-221, 286.
=Survilliers, Comte de=. _See_ =Buonaparte, Joseph=.
=Suvaroff, Gen. A. V.=, defeats Macdonald on the Trebbia, ii. 92;
holds Piedmont, 141;
driven by Massena to Bavaria, 142;
disasters in the Alps, 141.
=Swabia=, treaty with France (1796), i. 450;
demonstrations of emigrants in, ii. 307;
withdrawal of Austrian troops from, 311;
French occupation of, 405.
=Sweden=, excluded from Congress of Rastatt, ii. 27;
joins the "armed neutrality," 194;
_N.'s_ hatred for the royal house of, 416;
Joachim I's aspirations to the crown of, 416;
Prussia recommended to go to war with, 420;
member of the coalition, iii. 20;
held back by Mortier, 19;
internal dissensions, 35;
neutrality of, 46;
failure of commercial negotiations with England, 49;
proposed commercial war against England, 55;
virtual dependence on France, 66;
English regulations concerning American trade with, 100, 101;
supposed assistance from England to, 113;
_N._ hints at rectification of her boundaries, 113;
proposed Russian invasion of, 113;
makes obstinate resistance in Finland, 117;
failure of the demonstration against, 159;
Alexander's uncertain position in regard to, 165;
_N._ promises to restore Pomerania to, 268;
promises to exclude British commerce, 267;
treaty with Russia, Sept. 17, 1809, 268;
cedes Finland to Russia, 268, 281;
Frederick VI hopes to acquire, 280;
_N.'s_ ambitions concerning, 280;
accession of Charles XIII, 280;
selection of Bernadotte as heir to the throne, 280;
abdication of Gustavus IV, 280;
Mme. de Stael in, 299;
Alexander offers Norway to, 314, 321, 350;
Russia opens negotiations with, 316;
demands and acquires a liberal constitution, 317;
eagerness to escape from French protection, 318;
_N._ offers Finland to, 321;
bids for her alliance by France and Russia, 320, 321;
Davout occupies Pomerania, 321;
treaty with Russia, April 12, 1812, 321;
Alexander demands better terms for, 329;
in grand coalition against _N._ (1813), 392;
Metternich seeks to embroil Russia and, 395;
subsidized by England, 399;
ambition to secure Norway, 399;
_N._ attempts to win over, 399;
evacuates Hamburg, 407;
commercial agreement with England, 424;
inaugurates the coalition of 1813, 424;
Bernadotte seeks to annex Norway to, iv. 55;
struggle with Norway, 164;
member of the Vienna coalition, 164.
=Swiss Guard=, at the Tuileries, i. 299.
=Switzerland=, republican schemes and revolutionary movements in,
i. 329; ii. 27, 40;
_N.'s_ schemes and influence in, i. 448; ii. 12, 144, 233, 234;
French plundering of, 40;
organization of the Helvetian Republic, 86;
Massena ordered to command in, 87;
Russian military operations in, 91-93;
Berthier commanding in, 140;
Massena's successes in, 140;
Massena makes a forced levy in, 153;
falls into French hands, 164, 234, 281;
Kray's retreat via, cut off, 166;
jealousy of Piedmont, 233;
factions in, 234;
adoption of the name, 234;
neutrality of, 234;
the Act of Mediation, 234;
furnishes contingents to _N.'s_ armies, 234; iii. 3, 20, 323;
occupied by Ney, ii. 272;
lends aid to France in 1803, 289;
independence of, 354;
_N.'s_ claim to, 354;
Prussia bound to secure the liberties of, 377;
Mme. de Stael banished to, 411;
relations of France with, iii. 54, 73;
Valais separated from, 278;
violation of her neutrality by the allies, iv. 56, 57, 66, 67;
fails to support the Emperor, 57, 59;
reported rising in, 88;
Jerome and Joseph take refuge in, 135.
=Syria=, Nelson seeks the Egyptian expedition off the coast of, ii. 57;
_N.'s_ schemes of conquest in, 61, 62;
Turkish movements in, 68-70;
the French advance into, 68, 69.
=Szuczyn=, Russian retreat to, iii, 8.
T
=Tabor, Mount=, battle near, ii. 72.
=Tabor Bridge=, Murat crosses the, ii. 368.
=Tacticus=, _N.'s_ references to, ii. 235.
=Tactics and strategy=, the lessons of Austerlitz, ii. 391, 392.
=Tafalla=, Moncey at, iii. 183.
=Tagliamento, River=, military operations on the, i. 430-432.
=Tagus, River, the=, British fleet in, iii. 121;
French attempt to capture the fleet in, 121;
Dupont holds, 156;
the lines of Torres Vedras, 285;
military operations on, 285.
=Taine, H. A.=, on the Napoleonic regime, iv. 294.
=Talavera=, battle of, iii. 236, 284, 287.
=Talleyrand, Prince=, minister of foreign affairs, ii. 17, 34, 35,
130, 153, 323;
relations with and views on _N._, ii. 17, 23, 24, 30, 31, 33-35,
96, 97; iii. 81, 94-96, 133, 151, 168, 175, 179, 301; iv. 165,
233;
attempts to force _N.'s_ hand, ii. 23;
relations with Mme. du Barry, 33;
expelled from England, 33;
Mirabeau's opinion of, 33;
relations with the Directory, 34;
career, 33-35;
system of national education, 33, 225-227;
charged with tampering with Bernadotte, 43;
member of the Institute, 47;
advocates seizure of Egypt, 47, 48;
intrigue with _N._, Barras, and Sieyes for a new constitution, 49;
ascribes the Egyptian expedition to _N._, 51;
proposed mission to Constantinople, 66;
dreads a new Terror, 94;
critical moment in his house, before the 18th Brumaire, 103;
influence on Barras, 107;
Bourbon sympathies of, 122;
_N._ proposes a constitution to, 126;
offers peace to Portugal, 154;
monarchical views of, 158;
discusses possibility of _N.'s_ death, 186;
negotiations with Count St. Julien, 188;
negotiations with Cobenzl, 189;
demands bribes from American envoys, 212;
the Pope's ban removed from, 216;
carves up German principalities, 265;
demands to know England's intentions concerning Malta, 273;
Lord Whitworth's utterances to, 284;
his explanation of the scene of March 13, 1803, 284;
urges action against Bourbon plotters, 304;
notifies Baden of the seizure of Duc d'Enghien, 308;
charged with suppressing despatches, 306;
Josephine's dread of, 308;
blamed by _N._ for the murder of the Duc d'Enghien, 311; iii. 198;
murder of the Duc d'Enghien sits lightly on, ii. 312;
Grand Chamberlain, 324;
attitude of Pius VII toward, 326;
excommunication taken off from, 326;
replies to Russia's demands, 330;
diplomatic replies to Pius VII, 346;
at Vienna, 382;
created Prince of Benevento, 396; iii. 94, 279;
negotiations with Lord Yarmouth, ii. 400, 401;
bribed by German princes, 403;
on the proposed North German Confederation, 420;
at Tilsit, iii. 49, 53;
warns _N._ against Queen Louisa's fascinations, 60;
author of treaty of Tilsit, 60;
Queen Louisa's sarcasm to, 61;
showy character of his diplomacy, 65;
responsibility for the treaty of Tilsit, 72;
advocates support of the Emperor, 80;
conversations with Mme. de Remusat, 80;
on the discords in the imperial court, 94;
resigns from the ministry, 94, 96;
salary, 96;
his influence on the wane, 96;
Vice-Grand Elector, 96; iv. 106;
policy after Austerlitz, iii. 125;
favors Ferdinand VII, 125;
resumes active diplomacy, 133;
negotiations with Izquierdo, 133;
at Bayonne, 145;
estimate of Ferdinand VII, 145;
constituted custodian of Ferdinand VII, 148, 169;
stinging rebuke addressed to _N._ by, 151;
prepares to return to public life, 169;
acts in the interests of Austria, 171, 178;
at the Erfurt conference, 171, 178-181;
ordered to ventilate the divorce question, 181;
his treachery read by _N._, 197;
blamed by _N._ for the Spanish failure, 197;
member of extraordinary council on _N.'s_ second marriage, 254;
on the natural extensions of France, 282;
meeting of _N._ and Mme. de Stael at house of, 298;
pecuniary losses, 301;
on the aims of the coalition of 1813, 400;
spreads alarming reports, iv. 51;
on the Spanish situation, 51, 52;
royalist intrigues of, 51, 106, 107, 113;
member of the Empress-regent's council, 106;
Murat's and Lannes's characterizations of, 107;
desires a violent death for the Emperor, 107;
opposes the departure of the Empress from Paris, 107;
_N.'s_ knowledge of his duplicity, 107, 108;
on the Empress's flight from Paris, 108;
Dalberg's characterization of, 107, 108;
simulated flight from Paris, 112;
interview with Prince Orloff, 112;
sends a "blank check" to Alexander, 113;
at peace council in Paris, 114;
gives adherence to Louis XVIII, 113;
negotiates with Nesselrode, 113;
member of the executive commission, 114;
learns of Marmont's defection, 125;
remonstrates with Alexander against the regency, 125;
suspected complicity in plots to assassinate _N._, 138;
negotiates secret treaty between France, England, and Austria, 145;
influence at the Congress of Vienna, 144, 145;
double intrigues of, 148, 149, 153;
ignores Russian and English protests, 153;
attainted, 157;
_N._ appeals to, 165;
at Carlsbad, 224;
returns to Paris, 224;
reception by Louis XVIII, 224;
resumes active functions, 224;
on the secret of empire, 250;
his value in European politics, 251;
correspondence with--French, ambassador at London, ii. 284;
Grenville, Lord, 143;
Napoleon, 34, 49, 361; iii. 18, 117;
Nesselrode, Count, iv. 106;
_character:_ ambition, iii. 96; iv. 106;
brilliancy, ii. 33; iii. 65;
capacity for intrigue, ii. 49, 130; iv. 51, 106, 108, 112, 148, 153;
diplomatic and political ability, ii. 33, 131, 346; iii. 65, 95, 133;
duplicity, ii. 33-35, 130-132; iv. 107;
gaming passion, ii. 33;
greed 131;
learning, 33;
licentiousness, 33, 131;
self-interest, iii. 193, 197, 253, 381;
treachery, 193, 197; iv. 106;
unscrupulousness, ii. 33, 35, 212; iv. 107, 138;
venality, ii. 34, 131, 265, 390, 391, 403; iii. 81, 94, 125; iv. 251;
versatility, ii. 33.
=Talleyrand, Mme.=, Pius VII refuses to receive, ii. 326.
=Tallien, J. L.=, opposes Robespierre, i. 251;
social life in Paris, 290;
influence for _N._, 296;
favors appointment of _N._ as Convention general, 299;
marriage, 315.
=Tallien, Mme.=, "the goddess of Thermidor," i. 290;
_N.'s_ social intercourse with, 291;
matrimonial experiences, 315.
=Talma, F. J.=, i. 319;
accompanies _N._ to Erfurt, iii. 174;
_N.'s_ intimacy with, iv. 250.
=Tanaro=, _N._ at taking of, i. 255.
=Tanaro, River=, the country of the, ii. 178.
=Taranto=, embargo on, ii. 287;
creation of hereditary duchy of, 396;
Macdonald created Duke of, iii. 86. _See also_ =Macdonald=.
=Tarentum=, Soult's force at, ii. 204.
=Tarragona=, captured by Suchet, iii. 377.
=Tarutino=, Kutusoff takes position at, iii. 350.
=Tarvis=, capture of, i. 433.
=Tatars=, characteristics of the, iii. 9.
=Tatary=, _N._ studies the history of, i. 95.
=Tauenzien, Gen.=, battle of Dennewitz, iv. 18;
during the Waterloo campaign, 172.
=Tauroggen=, Convention of, iii. 385, 395.
=Taxation=, Necker's problems of, i. 98;
exemption of privileged classes from, 98, 100, 105;
conditions of, at outbreak of the Revolution, 101-106;
the stamp tax, 106;
the land-tax, 105, 106;
outbreak against, at Auxonne, 111;
demand for equality of, in Corsica, 116, 117;
reform of the system of, ii. 134, 220.
=Tchitchagoff, Adm.=, joins Tormassoff, iii. 350;
pursuit of the French army by, 358, 366, 383;
hopes of capturing _N._, 367;
description of _N._, 367;
captures Borrissoff, 367, 368;
driven out of Borrissoff, 368;
at the crossing of the Beresina, 370;
blamed by Kutusoff and Wittgenstein, 374, 375;
bad generalship of, 375, 383.
=Tchernicheff, Gen.=, commanding Army of the North, iv. 2.
=Telnitz=, fighting at, ii. 385, 386.
="Templars, The,"= by Raynouard, ii. 350.
=Temple, the=, the royal family imprisoned in the, i. 175.
=Tenda Pass=, captured by the French, i. 243, 256;
_N.'s_ entertainment for Mme. Turreau at, 256.
=Teplitz=, Louis's flight to, iii. 276;
Bennigsen reaches, iv. 22.
=Terror, the=, i. 250-252, 266, 272, 314, 333; iv. 262;
fears of a revival of, ii. 92.
=Terrorists, the=, growing influence of, ii. 93;
assassination schemes among, 239.
=Testamentary rights=, under the Code, ii. 224.
=Tettenborn, Gen.=, relieves Hamburg, iii. 402.
=Texel, the=, Marmont ordered to Mainz from, ii. 362.
=Thann=, battle of, iii. 210.
=Tharandt=, Klenau's march to Dresden from, iv. 10.
=Themistocles=, his refuge with the Persians, iv. 227;
_N._ draws parallel between his case and that of, 227.
=Thermidorians, the=, i. 252;
prominent members of, 254;
adopt Roman systems, 269, 270, 271;
establish the Directory, 271;
anger the people of Paris, 273.
=Thielemann, Gen.=, in Waterloo campaign, iv. 172;
at Wavre, 194.
=Third Coalition, the=, ii. 354 et seq.;
Prussia induced to join, 376, 377;
rout of the allies at Austerlitz, 388;
destruction of its strength and morale, 388.
=Third Estate, the=, at outbreak of the Revolution, i. 101;
constitution of, 108;
assumes to represent the nation, 108;
forces a junction with the two upper Estates, 108;
Sieyes's pamphlet on the, 107;
_N.'s_ care for, iv. 258, 261.
=Third Republic=, the constitution of the, i. 267.
=Thirty Years' War=, Richelieu's policy at close of the, ii. 264.
=Thome=, alleges attempt to stab _N._, ii. 116.
=Thonberg=, _N._ at, iv. 32.
=Thorn=, siege of, iii. 2;
French occupation of, 12;
military movements near, 13;
_N._ in, 331;
French military stores in, 333.
=Thought=, influence on the social life of the world, ii. 46.
=Thouvenot, Gen.=, service in Spain, iii. 283.
=Three Emperors, Fight of the=, ii. 391.
=Thugut, Count=, greed for territorial aggrandizement, i. 325;
determines on Italian conquest, 425, 426;
opens negotiations at Leoben, 436;
warns Gen. Clarke to keep away from Vienna, 452; ii. 42;
not deceived by treaty of Campo Formio, 22;
Paul I demands his dismissal, 142;
repudiates St. Julien's negotiations, 188;
overthrow of, 189.
=Thuin=, military operations at, iv. 173.
=Thumery, Marquis of=, suspected of plotting against _N._, ii. 303.
=Thuringia=, military movements in, ii. 427.
=Tiber, River=, military operations on the, i. 421.
=Ticino, River=, military operations on the, i. 358; ii. 173.
=Tierney, G.=, on England's attitude toward France, ii. 144.
=Tilly, Count=, _N.'s_ letter to, Aug. 7, 1794, i. 253.
=Tilsit=, Bennigsen crosses the Niemen at, iii. 31;
meeting of the Emperors at, 34-65, 93;
treaty of, 34, 35, 54, 60, 63-66, 69, 72, 95, 97, 99, 104-110,
116-120, 132, 166-172, 177, 245, 248, 255, 265, 294, 304, 309,
313, 314, 328;
neutralization of, 42;
reasons leading to the peace of, 44 et seq.;
Queen Louisa at, 44, 57-62;
French representatives at, 49;
fraternizing of Russia and France at, 49-53;
decoration of the Russian grenadier at, 63;
_N.'s_ position at, 179;
Macdonald reaches, 384.
="Times," the= (London), on the allies' capture of Paris, iv. 108.
=Tissot, Dr.=, _N.'s_ letter to, i. 84.
=Tobacco=, establishment of state monopoly in, iii. 304.
=Toledo=, Dupont's forces near, iii. 156.
=Tolentino=, treaty of, i. 350, 421; ii. 326.
=Toll, Gen.=, meets Alexander I after Austerlitz, ii. 388;
proposes concentration of the allied forces, iv. 89;
advises movement on Paris, 98.
=Tolosa=, French forces at, iii. 183.
=Tolstoi, Gen.=, _See_ =Ostermann-Tolstoi=.
=Torbay=, the "Bellerophon" at, iv. 221, 226.
=Torcy=, battle at, iv. 86;
military operations at, 90.
=Torgau=, Saxon troops withdrawn from, iii. 407;
French occupation of, iv. 2;
Ney driven into, 19;
battle of, 267.
=Tormassoff, Gen.=, confronted by Schwarzenberg, iii. 342;
joined by Tchitchagoff, 351.
=Torres Vedras=, the lines of, iii. 285.
=Tortona=, surrendered to France, i. 355;
_N._ at, 453;
scheme to relieve Massena via, ii. 169;
the key of Genoa, 172;
topography of the country, 177, 178;
the Consular Guard at, 178.
=Tortugas, the=, death of Leclerc in, ii. 237.
=Touche, Mehee de la=, contrives Moreau's ruin, ii. 296-298;
English plots with, 330.
=Toulon=, the recovery of, for the Convention, i. 148;
military and naval preparations at, 187, 220, 221, 261; ii. 40,
47, 57, 332;
return of the Sardinian expedition to, i. 198;
anarchy in, 207, 213;
the Buonapartes in, 212;
the Buonapartes driven from, 216;
siege of, 220, 233, 289;
Marseilles refugees at, 221;
Lord Hood's seizure at, 221;
the "treason" of, 221-223;
_N._ at, 223, 240, 255, 257, 289, 307;
_N.'s_ plans for capture of, 230;
_N._ seeks mercy for rebels at, 233;
the National Convention's vengeance on, 233, 234;
massacres in, 234;
British occupation of, 239;
recapture of, 249;
news of the Terror in, 251;
English fleet driven from, 260;
the Corsican expedition leaves, 262;
_N._ at siege of, 289;
forced military loans in, 345;
departure of Egyptian expedition from, ii. 52-56;
Nelson seeks the Egyptian expedition at, 57;
_N._ sails from Alexandria for, 82;
failure of Villeneuve's expedition from, 333;
_N._ orders the Spanish fleet to, iii. 71.
=Toulouse=, Soult thrown back on, iv. 81;
defeat of Soult at, 147.
=Tournon, the Chamberlain de=, mission to Spain, iii. 128.
=Tours=, the French garrison at, iv. 118.
=Trachenberg=, military council at, iv. 6.
=Trade=, condition at outbreak of the Revolution, i. 101.
=Trafalgar=, _N.'s_ reception of the news of, ii. 334;
battle of, 373-376; iii. 47;
effect in France, ii. 394;
_N.'s_ reply to, ii. 441;
the lesson of, 264.
=Trannes=, military movements near, iv. 60, 89.
=Transpadane Republic, the=, i. 367, 400, 402, 428;
question of a constitution for the, ii. 10.
=Trasimenus=, creation of the department of, iii. 262, 263.
=Traun, River=, military movements on the, iii. 211.
=Treaties=, the value of, iv. 263.
For specific treaties see the names of parties signatory
(countries or rulers) and of the places at which signed.
=Trebbia, River=, French disasters on the, ii. 83, 92.
=Treilhard, M.=, member of the Directory, ii. 92.
=Trent=, military operations near, i. 384, 409, 414;
abandoned by Vaubois, 387;
Brune advances to, ii. 192;
apportioned to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, 266;
ceded to Bavaria, 391.
=Treuenbrietzen=, Prussian pursuit of Oudinot to, iv. 14.
=Treviso=, creation of hereditary duchy of, ii. 396;
Mortier created Duke of, iii. 86 (_see also_ =Mortier=);
the Buonaparte family princes of, iv. 44.
=Trianon=, _N._ retires to, after the divorce, iii, 257;
the imperial court at, 301.
=Trianon Decree, the=, iii. 279.
=Tribunate, the=, ii. 126, 150-153;
constitution of, 241;
opposition to _N._ in, 242, 243;
secret sessions of, 247;
new method of electing to, 247;
form of addressing the First Consul in, 293;
Carnot remonstrates in, against adulation of _N._, 295;
independence of, 320;
initiates the imperial movement, 321;
condition under the imperial constitution of 1804, 322;
destruction of, iii. 82;
compared with the English Parliament, 83;
its functions, 83.
=Tricolor=, Louis XVI, adopts the, i. 109;
_N.'s_ scheme to unfurl, in Corsica, 122;
insult to, in Naples, 192.
=Triest=, _N._ threatens to seize, i. 404;
seized by _N._, 434;
reoccupied by Austria, 435;
rise of, 447;
importations of English goods at, iii. 165;
ceded to France, 239;
England's loss of trade with, 272;
basis of possible Oriental operations, 331;
French occupation of, 423;
_N._ offers the city to Austria, 424.
=Trinidad=, retained by England, ii. 211, 262;
ceded to England, 332.
=Triple Alliance, the=, iv. 21, 76, 295.
=Triumphal Arch, Paris=, erection of the, iii. 74.
=Tronchet=, on committee to draft the Code, ii. 222.
=Troyes=, recall of the Parliament to Paris from, i. 106;
battle of, iv. 60;
military movements near, 60, 68, 72-76, 86, 88-91, 95, 104, 105.
=Truchsess-Waldburg, Count=, Prussian commissioner at Fontainebleau,
iv. 134;
_N.'s_ attitude toward, 134;
allegations concerning _N.'s_ physical ailments, 139, 168.
=Tudela=, French success at, iii. 156;
scheme of operations at, 158;
Spanish forces near, 184, 185.
=Tuileries, the=, the mob at, i. 176;
the carnage at, 178;
Robespierre orders the destruction of, 251;
storming of, Aug. 10, 1702, 273;
defense of, 299-303;
_N._ at, on the 18th Brumaire, ii. 105, 106;
Lannes's guard at, 108;
decoration of, 147;
rechristened "the palace of the government," 147;
_N._ takes possession of, 148;
residence of the Buonapartes at, 195, 196;
social functions at, 255, 256, 279, 327-328, 406;
consular levee of March 13, 1803, 280;
_N.'s_ interview with Lord Whitworth at, Feb. 17, 1803, 280-282;
scene between Whitworth and _N._, March 13, 1803, 281, 282;
the imperial court at, 324, 326-328;
refurnishing the, iii, 25;
social vices at, 92;
_N._ at, 110;
the divorce scandal in, 180;
the divorce decree pronounced in, 247;
imperial family life at, 323, 381;
depository of the Emperor's funds, 366, 389; iv. 50, 141;
the officers of the National Guard summoned to, 53;
flight of the Empress from, 109;
changes in the court at, 148;
_N._ reenters, 158;
struggle between royalists and imperialists at, 158;
loneliness of, 159.
=Turas=, military operations near, ii. 385.
=Turenne, Marshal=, military genius, i. 348;
_N._ compared with, 348, 349;
_N.'s_ analysis of the wars of, iv. 232, 266.
=Turin=, military operations around, i. 353, 354;
_N.'s_ influence in, 448;
Gen. Clarke's mission to, 452;
_N._ in, ii. 27;
revolutionary movements in, 39;
Bonapartist agency in, 89;
Charles Emmanuel IV invited to return to, 141;
Melas hastens to, 170, 174;
topography of country near, 178;
sends deputation to Paris, iii. 380.
=Turkey=, _N._ studies the history of, i. 95;
seeks to organize its armies, 292;
France seeks alliance with, 293;
_N.'s_ plans for service in, 292, 296-298;
Austria's gaze on, 325;
_N.'s_ eye on, 424;
France's influence on, 424;
disaffection in, ii. 17;
schemes for the dismemberment of, 16, 18, 33, 42, 44, 382, 405;
iii. 37, 51, 55, 99, 105-114, 165, 169, 176, 245, 311, 313, 316;
France's justification of Egyptian schemes to, ii. 47;
_N._ seeks alliance with, 48;
refuses alliance with France, 67;
negotiations and alliances with Russia, 67, 72; iii. 51, 56, 99,
105, 322; 350;
alliance with Russia and Austria, 56;
military activity, 1799, 74;
joins the second coalition, ii. 90, 93;
checked by Franco-Russian treaty of peace (1800), 154;
defeat of, at Heliopolis, 181;
Egypt restored to, 211;
treaty between France and (1801), 211;
integrity of her boundaries, 262;
suzerainty over Ionia and Egypt, 262;
_N._ on her policy, 347;
source of discord between France and Russia, 417;
Oubril undertakes to guarantee her integrity, 417;
_N._ resolves to assert supremacy over, ii. 441;
military operations on the Dniester, 441;
_N.'s_ scheme of protectorate over, 441;
hostilities with Russia, iii. 1, 163, 236, 248, 310;
declares war against England, 20;
_N._ arranges a treaty between Persia and, 20, 21;
Austria espouses the cause of, 22;
overthrow of Selim III, 33, 51, 106, 163;
revolt of the Janizaries, 33;
alliance with France, 33;
end of Sebastiani's influence in, 33;
Russian acquisitions in, 64;
French influence in, 99;
_N._ intervenes between Russia and, 100;
terms of the agreement at Slobozia, 105;
Russia's ambition to acquire territory of, 108;
usurpation of Mustapha, iv, 162;
threatened anarchy in, 163;
reform in, 163;
threatened loss of French prestige in, 163;
accession of Mahmud II, 163;
Alexander's uncertain position in regard to, 166;
_N._ fears her alliance with Russia or England, 177;
England's trade under the flag of, 280;
Russian designs against, 309;
Austria seeks territorial aggrandizement at expense of, 316;
pivotal in European politics, 318;
_N._ endeavors to form alliance with, 322;
in grand coalition against _N._ (1813), 392;
European support of, iv. 295;
_N.'s_ influence on modern, 300.
=Turreau, Gen.=, at Mont Cenis Pass, ii. 170;
crosses Mont Cenis, 172.
=Turreau, Mme.=, _N.'s_ ghastly entertainment for, i. 256.
=Tuscany=, the Buonaparte family in, i. 27-29;
favors the French Revolution, 262;
peace between France and, 262;
withdraws from the coalition (1795), 324;
military operations against, 357-421;
French proposition to revolutionize, 373;
treaty with France, Jan. 11, 1797, 410;
plunder of, ii. 16;
involved in Italian quarrels, 87;
France acquires temporary possession of, 87;
_N.'s_ bad faith with, 144;
Austrian occupation of, 160, 170, 182;
reinforcements for Melas from, 170;
creation of kingdom of, 205;
British ships driven from harbors of, 287;
the situation in, iii. 118;
ecclesiastical reforms and confiscations in, 264;
Elisa created Grand Duchess of, 279.
_See also_ =Buonaparte, Marie-Anne-Elisa=.
=Tuscany, the Grand Duke of=, i. 345;
flees to Vienna, ii, 87;
loses his territory, 193;
territories acquired by, 266.
=Tutschkoff, Gen.=, in battle of Eylau, iii. 15.
=Twelfth Light Dragoons=, at the battle of Waterloo, iv. 211.
=Two-Cent Revolt, the=, i. 79.
=Two Sicilies, the=, i. 421.
=Tyrol, the=, the road to Vienna through, i. 342;
military operations in, 371-373, 383-387, 392, 414, 431, 433-436;
ii. 367, 380; iii. 201, 212, 213, 234;
_N.'s_ unsuccessful attempt to conciliate its people, i. 385;
loyalty to Austria, 409;
the insurrection in, 436;
Kray's retreat to, cut off, ii. 166;
Iller commanding in the, 188;
Soult cuts off the Austrian retreat to, 366;
Ney sweeps the Austrians from, 380;
_N._ threatens to seize, 389;
ceded by Austria to Bavaria, 391;
insurrection ripe in, iii. 195;
Archduke John to excite revolt in, 199;
rising against Bavarian rule, 201;
repression of priestly tyranny in, 201;
revolution against bondage in, 201;
characteristics of its people, 201;
Maximilian's reforms in, 201;
guerrilla warfare in, 210, 234;
abandoned by Archduke John, 211;
its people abused by _N._, 213;
French evacuation of, 225;
rising in, 234;
French invasion of, 241;
effects of the armistice of Znaim, 241;
reduced to submission, 241;
amnesty offered by Prince Eugene, 241;
opened to the allies, iv. 56.
U
=Ucciani=, _N.'s_ escape to, i. 203.
=Udine=, congress at, ii. 20.
=Ulm=, Austrian retreat to, ii. 168;
Austrian troops in sight of, 363;
the French at, 363-365;
the capitulation at, 366, 367;
concentration of troops in, iii. 203.
="Undaunted," the=, _N._ sails for Elba on, iv. 140.
=United Irishmen=, misunderstanding between the Directory and the,
ii. 67.
=United States, the=, constitutional government in, i. 152;
the French idea of the system of government in, 269;
Talleyrand's residence in, ii. 33;
Talleyrand's views on, 33, 34;
mission concerning protection of commerce, 34;
treaty of commerce with England, 1794, 212;
arrogance of the Directory toward, 211, 212;
imbroglio with France, 212;
suspension of diplomatic relations with France, 212;
commercial convention with France, 212;
neutrality declaration, 1793, 212;
Jerome Buonaparte's residence in, 257;
events leading to the war of 1812, 288, 289; iii. 274;
purchases Louisiana, ii. 289, 332; iv. 300;
_N.'s_ relations with, and influence on, ii. 289; iii. 101, 275;
iv. 300;
Carnot's comparison of France with, ii. 321;
Moreau's banishment to, 299;
commercial rivalry with England, iii. 46;
British claim of right of search, 47, 48;
effect of British "orders in council" upon, 47;
ocean commerce, 48;
authorizes reprisals, 48;
French attacks on commerce of, seizures of vessels, etc., 49, 273,
274, 296, 321, 322;
rising naval power, 49;
liberty of testamentary disposition in, 85;
English provisions concerning the carrying trade of, 100-102;
permitted to trade direct with Sweden, 100, 101;
_N._ attempts to force them into the French system, 101, 102;
decline of trade with England, 102;
Jefferson's administration, 101, 102;
agricultural policy of the Democrats, 101, 102;
the embargo, 102, 274, 275;
the war of 1812, 102, 322;
policy of the Federalists, 102;
the Non-intervention Act, 102;
indispensability of cotton in Europe, 266;
"neutralized" commerce of, 267;
proposal that Louis XVIII acquire a kingdom in, 271;
alleged seizure of French vessels by, 274;
the Non-intercourse Act of March 1, 1809, 274;
prohibition of commercial intercourse with England and France, 274;
seizure of ships by England, 275;
Lucien attempts to escape to, 277;
chafing under restrictions of commerce, 318;
crippled commerce of, 321;
declares war against England, 378;
naval successes of, 378;
Moreau summoned from, 407; iv. 2;
_N._ plans escape to, 219, 220;
Hamilton's treasury system, 259;
the independence of, 261;
the war for independence, 297;
wars with England, 300, 301;
popular interest in _N._ in, 300, 301;
expansion of constitutional law, 301;
growth of, 301;
_N.'s_ influence in, 301;
the slavery question in, 301.
_See also_ =America=.
=University of Berlin=, iii. 103.
=University of France=, ii. 228; iii. 89.
=Ural Mountains=, proposed Indian expeditions via, ii. 209.
=Urbino=, annexed to Italy, iii. 68, 118.
=Uscha, River=, military operations on the, iii. 340.
=Ussher, Capt.=, conveys _N._ to Elba in the "Undaunted," iv. 140, 141.
=Usury=, the curse and its cure in France, ii. 219; iii. 76, 77.
=Utizy=, military movements near, iii. 344.
V
=Valais=, declared an independent commonwealth, ii. 233;
Chateaubriand French representative in, 260;
scheme to incorporate it with France, iii. 266;
separated from Switzerland, 278;
independence of, 278;
annexed to the French empire, 278.
=Valeggio=, _N.'s_ narrow escape at, i. 393.
=Valencay=, the Spanish captives at, iii. 148, 168, 261.
=Valence=, _N._ joins his regiment at, i. 67;
_N.'s_ life at, and visits to, i. 66-82, 125, 134, 141, 145, 149,
150, 154-158, 184, 223;
the garrison at, and people of, 143;
obsequies of Mirabeau at, 153, 154;
friends of the Constitution in, 155;
reception of _N._ and Elisa at, 184;
occupied by Carteaux, 215;
death of Pius VI at, ii. 39;
burial of Pius VI at, 216;
meeting of _N._ and Augereau near, iv. 138.
=Valencia=, massacre of the French at, iii. 154;
Moncey advances on, 156;
French defeat before, 159;
captured by Suchet, 289;
temporary French government at, 377.
=Valenciennes=, evacuation of, i. 222.
=Valenza=, military operations near, i. 358.
=Valetta=, French plot to seize, ii. 18;
the sword of, given to Paul I, 154.
=Valjouan=, Victor drives the Austrians from, iv. 71.
=Valladolid=, captured by the French, iii. 132;
French success near, 156;
French communications at, 157;
_N._ at, Jan. 6, 1809, 189.
=Valmaseda=, Blake driven back to, iii. 184.
=Valmy=, defeat of the allies at, i. 194.
=Valtellina, the=, quarrel between the Grisons and, ii. 11;
incorporated in the Cisalpine Republic, 40.
=Vandamme, Gen.=, in battle of Austerlitz, ii. 386-388;
dread of _N._, iii. 93;
in battle of Eckmuehl, 209;
at Linz, 216, 225;
relieved by Lefebvre, 225;
strength of his corps, March, 1812, 324;
commanding division in Eugene's army, 393;
junction of Danish troops with, 407;
captures Hamburg, 407;
goes to Davout's assistance, 413;
in battle of Dresden, iv. 8-10;
at Pirna, 8-10;
pursues the allies, 10;
battle of Kulm, 15;
captured at Kulm, 15;
character, 15;
in the Waterloo campaign, 169-173;
advances toward Fleurus, 180;
battle of Ligny, 181.
=Vandeleur, Gen.=, in battle of Waterloo, iv. 210.
=Vanne, River=, iv. 105.
=Var, River=, military operations on the, ii. 160, 165, 170, 171, 174.
=Vatican=, relations of Paoli with the, i. 16.
=Vauban=, disgrace of, i. 332;
eulogized by Carnot, 333.
=Vaubois, Gen.=, service in the Alps, i. 347;
defeated by Davidowich, 387, 388, 392;
service in Egypt, ii. 53.
=Vauchamps=, battle of, iv. 64.
=Vaud=, revolutionary outbreak in, ii. 27, 40;
French intervention in, 40;
Alexander forbids the restoration of, iv. 68.
=Vaux=, submission of Carlo Buonaparte to, i. 31.
=Venaissin, the=, annexed to France, i. 422.
=Vendee, la=, civil war, massacres, and royalist plots in, i. 207,
213, 222, 234, 249, 276, 305, 325, 449; ii. 91, 143, 146, 240,
241; iv. 102, 166, 218;
reinforcements for the Army of Italy from, i. 387;
_N._ conciliates, ii. 146;
revulsion of feeling against the Bourbons in, iv. 146;
_N._ seeks to rouse imperial feeling in, 220.
=Vendemiaire=, the 13th of, 301-305; ii. 22.
=Vendetta, the=, i. 10-15.
=Vendome, Column of=, erection of the, iii. 74;
placard on the, iv. 158.
=Venetia=, neutrality violated by Beaulieu, i. 361;
jealousy between Venice and other towns of, 427;
coveted by Austria, 428;
the revolutionary movement in, 436;
the mainland ceded to Austria, 438;
the oligarchy of, 444;
French military operations in, ii. 13;
France's acquisitions in, 21;
incorporated in the Cisalpine Republic, 21;
plunder of, 38;
surrender to Austria, 38;
_N._ threatens to seize, 389;
incorporated with Italy, 395, 405;
admitted to the Concordat, iii. 118.
_See also_ =Venice=.
=Venetian Alps=, road to Vienna through the, i. 342.
=Venetian Republic=, political status in 1796, i. 345.
=Venice=, _N._ studies the history of, i. 95;
Austria's ambitions in, 325, 424; ii. 357, 363;
military operations against (1796), i. 357;
Beaulieu violates neutrality of, 371-373;
treaty with Austria, 371;
decadence and downfall of, 371, 451;
at _N.'s_ mercy, 373;
resents violations of territory, 401;
_N.'s_ violation of neutrality of, 427;
the humiliation of, 427-429;
the Golden Book of, 428, 429, 436;
pillage in, 427, 445; ii. 16;
Kilmaine's military watch on, i. 431;
revolution in, 435, 445-447;
concludes negotiations with _N._, 436-438;
acquires Bologna, Ferrara, and the Romagna, 438;
_N._ forbidden to interfere with, 441;
loss of independence, 441-446;
fires on French ship, 443;
_N._ "an Attila to," 443;
_N._ declares war against, 443;
the oligarchy of, 444;
attempts to bribe _N._, 445;
treaty between France and (1797), 446;
the new republic of, 446;
loses independence, 446, 447;
French occupation of, 445-447;
letter from _N._ to the provisional government, 447;
_N.'s_ characterization of the Venetians, 447;
_N._ offers the republic to Austria, 446;
_N._ reproached for the overthrow of, ii. 5;
Lallemant's propaganda in, 10, 11;
Junot's demands on the senate, 11;
dismemberment of, 16;
the Directory's ambition for the conquest of, 16;
ceded to Austria, 21;
the last doge of, 24;
destruction of the "Bucentaur" at, 24;
destruction of naval stores at, 24;
seeks to continue war with Austria, 24;
dragged into war by _N._, 144;
election of Pius VII at, 206;
_N._ threatens to seize, 361;
surrendered to France, 391;
Pius VII refuses to extend the Concordat to, iii. 68;
ceded to France, 109;
appropriations for the harbor, 109;
_N._ at, Nov., 1808, 128;
interview between Joseph and _N._ at, 129-132;
basis of possible Oriental operations, 332.
_See also_ =Venetia=; =Venetian Republic=.
=Ventimiglia=, seized by Massena, i. 243.
=Vercelli=, Melas proposes to attack _N._ via, ii. 174.
=Verdier=, success at Logrono, iii. 156;
occupies Aragon, 155.
=Verdun=, abandoned by the enemy, i. 186;
imperial troops at, iv. 102.
=Verhuel=, Dutch commissioner to Paris, ii. 397.
=Verona=, _N._ at, i. 399;
French occupation of, 372;
military operations near, 379, 380, 388-392, 410-414;
insurrection in, 436, 442, 443;
disarmament of, 442.
=Veronese Vespers, the=, i. 436, 442.
=Versailles=, meetings of the Estates at, i. 96, 107;
luxury in, 151;
the Parisian mob at, 151;
prison massacres in, 188;
Macdonald's guard at, ii. 108;
_N._ retires to, after his divorce, iii. 257;
Souham delivers his army prisoners at, iv. 126, 127.
=Vicenza=, military operations before, i. 387;
creation of hereditary duchy of, ii. 396.
=Victor, Gen. C. P.=, attacks Provera at La Favorita, i. 415;
watches Rome, 431;
reinforces Lannes at Casteggio, ii. 176;
commanding corps at Marengo, 176-182;
service in the Army of England, 291;
battle of Heilsberg, iii. 29;
battle of Friedland, 30-32;
created Duke of Belluno, 86;
yearly income, 87;
character, 93;
_N.'s_ opinion of, 93;
at Amurrio, 183;
defeated by Wellesley at Talavera, 236;
strength of his corps, March, 1812, 324;
ordered to advance east from the Niemen, 347;
in retreat from Moscow, 359 et seq.;
effects junction with Saint-Cyr, 361;
checks Wittgenstein, 361;
abandons Vitebsk, 361;
driven back, 366;
at the crossing of the Beresina, 366-372;
ordered to hold back Wittgenstein, 369;
defeated by Wittgenstein at Borrissoff, 369;
division commander under Eugene, 393;
in campaign of 1813, 402;
relieves Glogau, 413;
battle of Dresden, iv. 8-10;
guarding roads from Bohemia, 18;
battle of Leipsic, 28, 31, 32;
assigned to defense of the Rhine, 54;
ordered to Nogent, 62;
junction with Macdonald at Montereau, 64;
abandons Nogent, 64;
driven back to Nangis, 65;
drives the Austrians from Valjouan, 71;
fails to capture Montereau, 71-73;
moral exhaustion of, 71-73;
degraded, but restored to favor, 72;
commanding portion of the Young Guard, 72;
battle of Craonne, 78.
=Victor Amadeus=, king of Sardinia, i. 244, 352;
guards Lombardy, 342;
checkmated by _N._, 355;
death of, 336;
relationship to Louis XVIII, 355, 356.
="Victory," the=, at Trafalgar, ii. 373, 374.
=Vienna=, plans for French advance on, i. 385;
Austria opposes _N.'s_ advance to, 426;
combined movements on, 430 et seq.;
the peace party in, 437;
rejoicing in, at treaty of Leoben, 439;
Gen. Clarke's mission to, 451;
rejoicings in, over treaty of Campo Formio, ii. 22;
Gen. Clarke forbidden to enter, 42;
dread of revolutionary sentiment in, 42;
attack on the French embassy (1798), 43;
flight of Ferdinand III to, 87;
_N.'s_ plans to subdue, 163;
_N._ sends peace commissioner to, 186;
court intrigues at, 189;
Moreau advances toward, 192;
Stuart British envoy to, 302;
_N._ threatens, 361, 378;
French treachery at, 369;
the French enter, 367-369, 378;
Talleyrand at, 382;
Pozzo di Borgo's mission at, ii. 445;
Andreossy's mission at, 443;
French influence in, iii. 22;
decree of, May 17, 1809, 118;
belligerent tone at, 165, 178, 193, 195;
effect of _N.'s_ and Alexander's remonstrances at, 167, 168;
Metternich goes to, 193;
defensive measures for, 203;
_N.'s_ march on, after Eckmuehl, 212;
capitulation of, 212;
_N.'s_ characterization of its inhabitants, 213;
Charles's plan to free, 216;
proposed French retreat toward, 222;
_N.'s_ army around, 226;
consternation at rumored Franco-Russian marriage, 251;
French soldiers nursed in, 254;
marriage of Maria Louisa at, 254-257;
pro-Russian party in, 313, 314;
characterization of _N._ in, 415;
England's diplomacy in, 417;
Francis fears a French invasion of, iv. 3;
Congress of, 144, 145, 162, 164;
news of _N.'s_ escape in, 162.
=Vienna Coalition, the=, iv. 164, 251.
=Vigo=, Villeneuve at, ii. 359.
=Villach=, _N._ enters Germany at, i, 434;
Eugene and Macdonald at, iii. 217.
=Villanova=, military operations at, i. 389.
=Villefranche=, expedition against Corsica from, i. 189.
=Villeneuve=, _N._ at, iv. 105.
=Villeneuve, Adm.=, in the battle of the Nile, ii. 63;
commanding at Toulon, 332;
proposed naval expedition for, 333;
escapes from Toulon, and returns, 333;
ordered to the West Indies, 334;
character, 333, 358, 371-375;
returns to European waters, 358;
his combined fleet at Ferrol and Corunna, 359;
at Vigo, 359;
disheartened, 359;
dissatisfied with his fleet, 359, 371, 372;
encounter with Calder, 359, 371;
ordered to relieve Rochefort and Brest, 359;
retreats to Cadiz, 359, 370, 371;
fails to appear in the Channel, 362;
chased by Nelson to the West Indies and back, 370;
retreat to Ferrol, 371;
orders for Mediterranean cruise, 372;
remonstrates against his orders, 372;
_N._ prepares to supersede, 372;
tries to evade disgrace, 372;
battle of Trafalgar, 373-375;
interview with _N._, 375;
his suicide, 375.
=Villetard=, French republican agent in Venice, i. 445.
=Vilna=, _N._ in, iii. 331-335;
Barclay de Tolly's army confronting, 335;
the French retreat through, 370, 372;
_N.'s_ incognito journey through, 375;
Kutusoff enters, 383;
Alexander goes to, 383.
=Vimeiro=, defeat of Junot at, iii. 157-159.
=Vincennes=, the trial and execution of the Duc d'Enghien at,
ii. 305, 306, 308-310; iii. 196.
=Vincent, Gen.=, Austrian representative at Erfurt, iii. 178, 193.
=Visconti=, "Greek Iconography," iv. 219.
=Vistula, River, the=, _N.'s_ conquests west of, ii. 437;
plan of campaign on, 441;
bridging of, iii. 2, 3;
French positions on, 7;
attempt to drive the French across, 28;
proposed boundary line on, 36;
military operations on, 117, 393, 396;
Alexander promises assistance to Prussia on, iii. 320;
the French army reaches, 330;
French advance to the Niemen from, 337;
Murat's position on, untenable, 385;
Schwarzenberg retreats across, 385;
threatened expulsion of the French from, 416;
French garrisons on, iv. 35;
_N._ entertains hopes of returning to, 63, 66, 69.
=Vitebsk=, its strategical position, iii. 338;
_N._ at, 338;
military movements near, 339, 364;
French garrison in, 341;
the French abandon, 361.
=Vitoria=, Dupont ordered to, iii. 128;
Ferdinand VII at, 143;
French forces at, 183;
battle of, 420.
=Vitrolles=, royalist intrigues of, iv. 98, 106, 108;
captured with Weissenberg at St. Dizier, 104.
=Vitry=, military movements near, iv. 58, 91, 93, 94;
Prussian occupation of, 95;
French troops at, 102.
=Vives, Gen.=, besieges Barcelona, iii. 184.
=Vivian, Gen.=, in battle of Waterloo, iv. 210.
=Volga, River, the=, proposed Indian expeditions via, ii. 209;
Cossacks of, iii. 9.
=Volhynia=, Austrian troops in, iii. 331, 338;
Bagration's position in, 335.
=Voelkermarkt=, Archduke John at, iii. 317.
=Volney, Constantin F. C.=, espouses the Corsican cause, i. 120, 121;
_N.'s_ friendship with, 163; ii. 97, 335;
member of the senate, 151.
=Voltaire=, on the character of Paoli, i. 18;
_N.'s_ study of, 78; ii. 256; iv. 231;
his "Essay on Manners," i. 150;
on the Hohenzollern territories, ii. 442;
performance of his "Oedipe" at Erfurt, iii. 172.
=Voltri=, military operations at, i. 353.
=Vorarlberg=, Kray's retreat via, cut off, ii. 166;
ceded to Bavaria, 391.
=Vosges Mountains, the=, proposed boundary for Germany, iii. 320;
the allies turn the line of, iv. 57, 58;
supposed retreat of Schwarzenberg to, 86;
reported rising in, 88;
_N._ urges guerrilla risings in, 90.
=Voss, Countess=, attendant on Queen Louisa, iii. 60.
W
=Wachau=, battle of, iv. 27-30.
=Wagram=, Charles's advance toward, iii. 218;
battle of, 225-232; iv. 173;
French demoralization after, iii. 231;
doubtful honors of, 231, 232;
_N.'s_ position after, 232;
position of Francis after, 232;
Berthier created Prince of, 256.
_See also_ =Berthier=.
=Walcheren=, the English expedition to, iii. 237, 253, 270, 272, 284.
=Walewska, Countess=, _N.'s_ amours with, iii. 11;
visits _N._ at Elba, iv. 142.
=Walhain=, Gerard at, iv. 192;
Grouchy at, 192, 213.
=Wallachia=, dismissal of the Turkish viceroy of, ii. 440, 441;
alleged concession of, to Russia, iii. 55;
Russian evacuation of, 64;
Russian ambition to possess, 98, 115, 116, 176, 310;
Russian occupation of, 99, 105;
Alexander demands possession of, 105;
_N._ offers to offset Moldavia and, against Silesia, 106, 108, 113;
proposed evacuation of Prussia for that of, 108;
Alexander's fear of losing, 248;
Russia threatened with the loss of, 314.
=Wallenstein=, scene of his overthrow by Gustavus Adolphus, iii. 404.
=War=, _N.'s_ aphorisms, theories, and plans of, i. 346-349;
ii. 268; iii. 202;
barbarity in, ii. 70;
thirst for, in France, 93;
the art of, 180.
=Warens, Mme. de=, memoirs of, i. 76.
=Warfare=, progress in methods of, i. 394, 395;
in Napoleonic times, ii. 178-180.
=Warsaw= (city), Louis XVIII living in, ii. 239;
Polish national movement in, ii. 444;
the Russians driven from, iii. 1, 2;
French occupation of, 6-11;
frivolity in, 10;
_N.'s_ amours in, 11;
_N._ offers to evacuate, 167;
proposition that Russia occupy, 177, 178;
Archduke Ferdinand to march against, 199;
captured by Archduke Ferdinand, 201;
Polish troops at, 203;
reoccupied by Poniatowski, 212;
offered to Prussia, 225;
attitude of the Poles in, 313;
Jesuit influence in, 31;
proposition to make it capital of a Saxon province, 328;
_N._ in, 331;
the Diet begs the restoration of Poland, 331;
Schwarzenberg evacuates, 385;
Russian occupation of, 385;
proposed new capital for Prussia, 409.
=Warsaw, Grand Duchy of=, creation of, iii. 56, 64, 73;
acquires Prussian territory, 62;
new constitution for, 67;
_N._ seeks to add Silesia to, 106, 108, 113;
Alexander's jealousy of, 108;
_N._ promises to evacuate, 113;
fortification of, 117, 165;
acquires New Galicia, 239;
territorial acquisitions, 244, 310;
pro-Russian party in, 311;
Alexander proposes to accept the crown of, 311;
military operations in, 322;
open to invasion, 329;
_N.'s_ incognito journey through, 375;
interview between _N._ and De Pradt at, 375, 382;
Russian invasion of, 385;
_N._ refuses to give up, 392;
reft from Saxony, 394;
in Russian possession, 399;
threatened dismemberment of, 409, 423;
proposed extinction of, 415;
_N.'s_ scheme in, 298.
=Washington, George=, comparison of Paoli with, i. 18;
death of, ii. 147;
admiration of France for, 147;
statue at the Tuileries, 147;
festival in honor of, 147, 148;
compared with _N._, 148;
declares the neutrality of the United States (1793), 212.
=Waterloo=, the advantage of position at, ii. 179;
the Prussian pursuit after, iii. 210;
_N.'s_ attempt at suicide after, iv. 131;
_N.'s_ reminiscences of, 175;
Wellington indicates the battle-ground, 178;
the controversial literature of, 186;
the battle-field, 189 et seq.;
character of the French troops at, 196;
Wellington's headquarters at, 195;
the plans of battle, 197;
the battle, 199 et seq.;
application of the name to the battle, 212;
review of the battle, 212 et seq.;
political spoils, 214;
moral effect on the Emperor, 216;
the news in Paris, 216;
_N.'s_ monograph on, 232;
_N.'s_ delay at, 267;
epic character of, 288;
effect on the world, 289.
=Waterloo Campaign=, parallel between campaign in Piedmont and, iv. 170.
=Wavre=, military operations at, iv. 182, 184, 187, 191-195, 214.
=Wealth=, _N._ on, i. 137.
=Weapons of war in 1796=, i. 349.
=Wehlau=, military movements near, iii. 30.
=Weimar=, dissension in the Prussian camp at, ii. 429;
fighting at, 431;
meetings of _N._ with Goethe and Wieland at, iii. 72, 73, 176.
=Weimar, Grand Duchess of=, entertains _N._, iii. 174.
=Weirother, Col.=, at Austerlitz, ii. 381.
=Weissenberg, Gen.=, captured near St. Dizier, iv. 104.
=Weissenburg=, battle of, i. 273;
the French position at, ii. 365.
=Weissenfels=, taken by Bertrand, iv. 35.
=Weissensee=, narrow escape of Frederick William III at, ii. 436.
=Wellenburg=, acquired by Wuertemberg, ii. 391.
=Wellesley, Sir Arthur=, takes command of operations in Portugal,
iii. 122;
enters Portugal, 157;
defeats Junot at Vimeiro, 157;
recalled to England and vindicated, 186;
expels the French from Portugal, 236;
prepares for invasion of Spain, 236;
battle of Talavera, 236;
withdraws before Soult, 237;
created Duke of Wellington, 265;
_See also_ =Wellington, Duke of=.
=Wellesley, Lord=, succeeds Canning as prime minister, iii. 272;
Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 284;
reinforces the army in Portugal, 284;
succeeded by Castlereagh, 378.
=Wellington, Duke of= (_see also_ =Wellesley, Sir Arthur=), effect
of Moore's spirit on, iii. 189;
holds Portugal, 283;
reinforced by Lord Hill, 283;
battle of Talavera, 284, 287;
battle of Busaco, 284;
retreat down the Mondego, 284;
constructs the lines of Torres Vedras, 285, 286;
battle of Ocana, 287, 288;
difficult position at Lisbon, 288;
character, 288, 289;
summons famine to his aid, 289;
advances into Spain, 289;
battles of Albuera and Fuentes de Onoro, 289;
retreats to Portugal, 289;
recaptures Almeida, 289;
attacked by Lord Liverpool, 288;
on Massena's stand, 289;
battle of Salamanca, 290;
storming of Badajoz, 290, 319;
captures Ciudad Rodrigo, 290, 319;
advances on the Duero, 290;
period of inactivity, 290;
returns to Portugal, 290;
resumes the offensive, 290;
between two fires, 290;
demoralization of his army, 291;
moves against Madrid, 290;
defeats Marmont at Salamanca, 377;
withdraws to the Portuguese frontier, 377;
hampered by English political situation, 377, 378;
reverses in the Peninsula, 392;
battle of Vitoria, 420;
threatens France, 420;
successes in Spain, 420, 423;
Spain rises to support, iv. 40;
on the war in Spain, 52;
signs conditions with _N._, 52;
succeeds Castlereagh at Congress of Vienna, 145, 169;
proposes to deport _N._ to St. Helena, 145;
recalled by Lord Liverpool, 149;
desires to take the field, 169;
military genius, 169;
plan of campaign of the Hundred Days, 169;
dissatisfaction with his troops, 169;
_N.'s_ position with regard to Bluecher and, 171;
influence over troops, 172;
relative strength in Waterloo campaign, 172;
awaits developments, 172;
reminiscences of Waterloo, 173, 178;
relations with Bluecher, 176;
interview between the Duke of Richmond and, at the ball, 178;
indicates the battle-ground at Waterloo, 178;
concentration of his troops, 178, 179;
criticizes Bluecher's tactics, 181;
meeting with Bluecher at Bry, 180;
battle of Quatre Bras, 181-188;
conversation with Col. Bowles, 184;
retreat to Mont St. Jean, 185, 189;
_N._ determines to attack, 185;
apprehended junction of Bluecher and, 187, 190;
his choice of position, 189 et seq., 193, 196, 213;
proposes to fall back to Brussels, 190;
strength at Waterloo, 190;
Bluecher promises support, 190;
Grouchy aims to prevent union between Bluecher and, 192;
his resolution to give battle in front of Soignes, 192;
his center at Mont St. Jean, 195;
Gneisenau's doubt of his standing at Waterloo, 194;
lack of confidence in the Dutch-Belgian troops, 195;
headquarters at Waterloo, 195;
lines of retreat, 195, 214;
the plan of Waterloo, 197;
battle of Waterloo, 199 et seq.;
repeated calls for Bluecher, 204;
stories of his anxiety, 207;
his conduct of the Waterloo campaign, 213;
faint-hearted cooeperation with Bluecher, 213;
restores Louis XVIII, 220;
danger of _N.'s_ surrender to, 323;
share in the reconstruction of France, 225;
alleged attempt to assassinate, 234.
=Wels=, Russian troops at, ii. 367.
=Wereja=, capture of the French garrison of, iii. 350.
=Werneck, Gen.=, capture of his division at Noerdlingen, ii. 367.
=Werther=, _N._ compared to, i. 81.
=Wesel=, ceded to France, ii. 390;
French garrison at, 404, 416, 424;
demand for its restoration to Prussia, 422.
=Weser, River=, French occupation of the coast near, iii. 266;
territory on, offered to Sweden, 399.
=Western Empire=, accomplishment of _N.'s_ dream of, iii. 73;
an end to the dreams of, 422.
=West Indies, the=, scheme for populating, ii. 236;
English blockade of the French fleet in, 257;
Jerome Buonaparte in, 257;
England watches French policy concerning, 267;
France looks to her power in, 280;
_N.'s_ ambitions in, 289;
French squadrons ordered to, 333;
Nelson enticed to, 358;
_N.'s_ ambitions in, iii. 308.
=Westphalia=, military movements in, ii. 425;
organization of the kingdom of, iii. 56, 62;
Jerome king of, 73, 279;
war indemnity exacted from, 78;
levy of troops in, 132, 322-324;
sequestration of Frederick William's estates in, 162;
insurrection in, 225;
Schill's failure in, 233;
scheme to incorporate part with France, 266;
French occupation of, 307;
French influence in, 423;
flight of Jerome to France, iv. 40.
=West Prussia=, Lestocq's retreat through, ii. 435.
=Whitbread, Samuel=, on the French Revolution, ii. 144.
="White Terror," the=, i. 277; iv. 222.
=Whitworth, Lord=, character, ii. 267;
ambassador to Paris, 266, 276;
evades declaration of England's Maltese policy, 273;
summoned to the Tuileries, Feb. 17, 1803, 280-282;
at consular levee of March 13, 1803, 280-282;
his attitude, 284, 285;
on _N.'s_ reception of April 4, 284;
reports on France's naval preparations, 284;
publication of his despatches in England, 284;
_N.'s_ declarations to, on subject of invading England, 290;
a diplomatic method of, iii. 418.
=Wiazma=, battle of, iii. 350.
=Wieland, C. M.=, interview with _N._ at Wiemar, iii. 174;
decorated at Erfurt, 176;
estimate of _N.'s_ influence, 322.
=Wilberforce, William=, deprecates war with France, ii. 285.
=Willach= (Carinthia), ceded to France, iii. 239.
=Willenberg=, military movements near, iii. 13.
=William, Prince= (of Prussia), mission to Paris, iii. 178;
in battle of Waterloo, iv. 205.
="William the Conqueror," by Duval=, ii. 350.
=Willot, Gen.=, proposes to destroy the Directory, ii. 78;
suspected of plotting against _N._, 303.
=Wilson, Sir Robert=, endeavors to reorganize the Russian army, iii. 351.
=Wintzengerode=, captures Soissons, iv. 77;
defeated near St. Dizier, 95.
=Wischau=, junction of Austrian and Russian troops at, ii. 379.
=Wittau=, military operations near, iii. 227.
=Wittenberg=, captured by Davout, ii. 436;
French forces at, iii. 393;
French occupation of, iv. 2;
military movements near, 14.
=Wittgenstein, Gen.=, in the Russian campaign, iii. 341;
menaces the French left, 350;
resumes offensive against Saint-Cyr, 359;
checked by Victor and Saint-Cyr, 361;
pursuit of the French army, 366, 383;
Victor ordered to hold back, 368;
at the passage of the Beresina, 370;
defeats Victor at Borrissoff, 370;
bad generalship of, 374, 383, 384;
losses in the Russian campaign, 383;
fails to cut off Macdonald's retreat, 384;
commanding the allied army, 403;
the battle of Luetzen, 405;
loses his command, 411;
commanding Army of the East, iv. 3;
battle of Leipsic, 29;
driven from Nangis, 72.
=Wkra, River=, bridging of the, iii. 2.
=Wolkousky, Prince P. M.=, in military council with Alexander I, iv. 98.
=Women=, _N.'s_ attitude toward, and ideas concerning, i. 138, 143,
256, 311, 317, 448; ii. 197, 198, 255; iii. 326, 327;
education of, ii. 225, 226;
demands of German social custom on, iii. 259, 260.
=Wrede, Gen.=, in campaign of Eckmuehl, iii. 206;
movements before Ratisbon, 209;
defeated by Hiller at Erding, 212;
battle of Wagram, 229;
reaches Vilna, 373;
commanding Bavarian troops, iv. 35.
=Wright, Capt.=, lands the Cadoudal conspirators in France, ii. 297, 298;
Savary suspected of complicity in death of, 412.
=Wurmser, Gen.=, _N.'s_ operations against, i. 350;
sent to reinforce Beaulieu, 357;
military genius, 378;
marches to relief of Mantua, 378 et seq.;
operations on Lake Garda, 381-383;
attempts to succor Mantua, 383, 384;
operations on the Brenta, 384;
advance-guard captured at Primolano, 384;
defeated at Bassano, 384;
demoralization of his army, 384;
makes ineffectual sally from Mantua, 392;
besieged in Mantua, his defense and surrender, 406-418;
_N.'s_ generosity to, 417, 418.
=Wuertemberg=, makes peace with France (1796), i. 385, 450;
grants to the Grand Duke of, ii. 265;
relations with Russia, 266;
French march through, 363;
friendly relations with and subservience to France, 377, 402; iii. 279;
created an independent kingdom, ii. 391, 398;
acquires territory after Austerlitz, 391;
member of the Confederation of the Rhine, 402, 403;
supplies contingents to _N.'s_ armies, ii. 404; iii. 3, 322, 324, 394;
Maria Louisa's progress through, iii. 256;
allotment of Austrian lands to, 266;
turns from _N._ to the allies, iv. 40;
position in Germany, 298.
=Wuertemberg, Princess Catherine of=, marries Jerome Napoleon,
iii. 93, 94.
=Wuerzburg=, seized by Jourdan, i. 385;
reported French occupation of, ii. 420;
_N.'s_ base, 424;
French forces at, iii. 393.
Y
="Yamacks," the=, iii. 162.
=Yarmouth, Lord=, negotiates for peace, ii. 400, 401, 404.
=Yelin=, author of "Germany in her Deepest Humiliation," ii. 417.
=Yermoloff, Gen.=, pursuit of the French army by, iii. 383.
=Yonne, River=, military operations on the, iv. 116, 157.
=York, Duke of=, besieges Dunkirk, i. 222;
defeated by Brune at Bergen, ii. 93, 323;
capitulates at Alkmaar, 93.
=York, Gen.=, in correspondence with Alexander I, iii. 384;
concludes convention of Tauroggen, 385, 392, 395;
nominally degraded, 385;
desertion of the French cause, 393;
his action approved by the Estates of eastern Prussia, 397;
battle of Bautzen, 410;
battle of Leipsic, iv. 30;
reinforces Bluecher at Montmirail, 63;
held by Mortier, 74;
routs Marmont at Athies, 79;
quits Bluecher's army, but returns, 80.
="Young Guard,"= the, iii. 222;
battle of Luetzen, 405;
battle of Dresden, iv. 9;
ordered to Bautzen, 18;
at Dresden, 21;
under command of Ney, 72;
Victor commanding portion of, 72;
"melts like snow," 78;
_N._ reviews, 117;
battle of Waterloo, 205.
Z
=Zaborowski=, _N._ seeks service with, i. 217.
=Zach, Gen.=, in battle of Marengo, ii. 180.
=Zacharias, Pope=, on kingly power, ii. 325.
=Zamosc=, held by the French, iii. 402.
=Zampaglini=, Corsican patriot brigand, i. 139.
=Zante=, France's jealous care of, ii. 32.
=Zealand=, French occupation of, iii. 270;
_N.'s_ offer to exchange it for Hanseatic towns, 270.
=Zembin=, the Emperor's retreat through, iii. 370.
=Ziethen, Gen. J. J.=, in Waterloo campaign, iv. 172;
at Charleroi, 173;
at Fleurus, 173, 174;
battle of Waterloo, 204, 205.
=Zittau=, French advance from Dresden to, iv. 6;
Bluecher's road to, blocked by Lauriston, 8.
=Znaim=, military operations near, ii. 367;
Kutusoff's retreat to, 379;
Charles withdraws toward, iii. 230;
fighting at, 230;
French repulse at, 235;
the armistice of, 241, 251.
=Zorndorf=, battle of, iv. 267.
=Zuerich=, the plundering of, ii. 40;
battles of, 93, 141;
Army of the Reserve ordered to, 164, 169;
Massena's victory at, 323.