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amalgamates with Second 359

at Borodino 255

cut off from Second Army by French advance 158

links up with Second 207–8

poor morale of 207

retreats 152, 170, 176

role of 117, 125

Second Army 117–19, 174

amalgamates with First 359

at Borodino 256

French attempt to encircle 158, 170

links up with First 207–8

morale 207

retreats 152, 166

role of 117, 125

unable to assist First 180

Third Army 117–19, 140

role of 117

3rd Corps 256

4th Corps 177, 270

7th Corps 214

27th Division (Neverovsky’s) 212, 254

Astrakhan grenadiers 494

2nd Cavalry Corps 270

Choglokov’s division 387

Grenadier division 269

Hussars 148, 327, 473

50th Jaeger Regiment 288

Konovnitsin division 178

Life Guards 268

3rd Militia Regiment 549

Odessa Regiment 288

Paskievich’s division 387

Semyonovsky Life Guards 494

Shirvansk Regiment 288

Simbirsk Regiment 217

Tarnopol Regiment 288

Vorontsov’s division 288

GENERAL:

artillery 119, 192, 260, 419, 495, 518

bivouacs 183–4

casualties in battle 287–8, 480, 569–70n, 582n

cavalry 236, 256, 260, 494, 518

commanders 119–22, 317, 494

cossacks 166, 381–3, 404–5, 419, 440, 443–6, 491, 510, 515, 518, 529–33, 535

degeneration of 494–5

deserters 164, 171, 211, 239, 251, 295, 331, 550, 566n

dispositions, July 1812 140–5, map 141

flying detachments 359

food shortages 236, 434

foreigners in 122–3, 125, 237–8

indiscipline 207, 211, 237, 316–17, 331

looting 199, 211, 293, 316, 332, 363, 443–5, 529

losses 536, 594–5n

military strategy 123–5, 152, 563n

militia 26, 243, 259, 327, 330, 359, 404, 444, 549

morale and mood of troops 27, 211, 237, 285, 314, 316, 331, 434–5

mutiny 470, 549

officers 122–3, 127, 211, 237–8, 335

partisan operations 327–9

prisoners of 402–4, 443–6, 456, 480, 484, 530–3, 536, 541–2, 586n, 594n

profiteering 320

propaganda 152, 153

provisioning and foraging 236, 320, 434

public attitude towards 323

pursuit of French takes toll on 433–5

refusal of soldiers to surrender 231–2

regroups in
Smolensk 207–8

reinforcements 243, 251, 334, 359, 434

reserve corps 119, 270

retreats 169–72, 180, 202–3, 236, 240, 251, 286, 289, 292, 332, 358, 376

scorched-earth policy 233, 234

spring campaign 545

treason suspected 169, 237–9, 295, 317, 361

troop numbers 117–19, 208, 259, 434, 494, 495, 522, 588–9n

volunteers 319

withdrawal from Vilna 152

Russian army 114–17

artillery 116–17, 119

command structure 117

commander-in-chief 25, 26

conscripts 114, 116

desertion 115

German Legion 83, 153, 542

Imperial Guard 120

officers 63–4, 115–16

plots against Alexander 31

quality of troops 115–16

troop numbers 116, 117

uniforms 114

see also
Russian Armies of the West

Russian Orthodox Church 27, 65, 198, 202

Russkii Viestnikh
64

Saint-Chamans, Col. Alfred de 88, 101

St Cyr, Marshal Laurent Gouvion, Comte de: Corps of,
see
Grande Armée: 6th Corps;

takes command of 2nd Corps 406, 407, 412

St Petersburg 53, 93, 202–3, 245, 247, 305, 312–15, 354, 431

militia 318–19

Saint-Priest, Gen. Emmanuel de 70fn, 122

Salamanca 235, 261

Saltanovka 180

Sanguszko, Prince Eustachy 176, 195, 346

Saratov 530, 541

Sauvage, Lt 156

Savary, Gen. Anne Jean Marie, Duc de Rovigo 10, 25

Savin, Lt Nicolas 541

Saxony 11, 45, 86, 100, 524

King of,
see
Frederick Augustus

Schaken, Marie-François 339

Scharnhorst, Gen. Gerhard Johann 47, 50, 52

Scheler, Gen. von 185

Schill, Major 50–1, 52

Schlegel, August Wilhelm 240

Schlegel, Friedrich 49, 50

Schleiermacher, Friedrich Daniel 49

Schreckenstein, Roth von 276

Schroder, Sgt-Major 540

Schubert, Friedrich von 168

Schwarzenberg, Prince Karl von 437, 458, 461, 495, 589n

Austrian ambassador in Paris 57

Austrian troops under 87, 104, 312

avoids battle 309, 537

defeated in 1813 campaign 546

heads for Austria 535

pitted against Tormasov’s Third Army 140, 194, 412

in Poland 502

on role played by weather 523

Scott, Sir Walter 328, 556

Sébastiani, Gen. Horace François, Comte 209, 237, 362

Ségur, Capt. Octave de 542

Ségur, Comte Philippe de xxiii

on attitude of troops towards Napoleon 456

on Berezina 589n

on birth of King of Rome 2

on Borodino 281

on departure from Moscow 366

on icy cold 497

letter to wife 350

on Napoleon’s departure 507

on resourcefulness of French soldier 233

on Smolensk 221

Ségur, Comtesse de 542–3

Seruzier, Col. 265, 297, 531

Seslavin (partisan officer) 328, 387, 440

Shcherbatov, Gen. 472, 473

Shcherbinin, A.A. 249

Shishkov, Admiral Aleksandr

Semionovich: anti-French sentiments 64, 113

appointed State Secretary 113

at military headquarters 121, 127

persuades Alexander to leave army 172, 198

proclamations written and translated by 152, 201–2, 315

Shuvalov, Prince P.A. 72

Shvedov, S.V. xxi

Shvienchiany 152

Simansky, Lt Luka Aleksandrovich 211, 237

Sirotkin, V.G. xxi

Skallon, Gen. 216

Skrawdzen 146

Slavophiles xvi, xviii

Smolensk 213, 227, 305, 309, 523

aftermath of battle 311

Alexander visits 204

battle for 214–20, 235, 408, 536

fall of 220–1, 223,

240, 246, 247

fire 218, 220–1, 230, 237

French base at 352–4, 408–9

French abandon 419, 426

French retreat to 374, 375, 377, 380–1, 406–8, 411

maps 210, 215,
413

Napoleon in 408–9, 411, 412

Napoleon’s intention to halt at 131, 180, 227

Napoleon plans to give battle at 194, 196

Napoleon’s manoeuvre 209–13

refugees from spread panic 242

retreating French army in 412–18, 439

rumours of Russian victory 241

Russian retreat to 207–8

Virgin of 262, 334

Smorgonie 496, 502, 504, 505, 530

Sniadecki, Jan 164

Sniadecki, Jedrzej 165

Sokolov, Oleg xxi

Sokolovo 329

Sohyk, Lt Count Roman 161, 298, 484

Spain 5, 11, 41, 52

British armies in 11, 15, 32

French units in 80, 96

guerrillas 327

insurrection in 35

Napoleon in 38

Riego rising (1820) 542

see also
Peninsular War

Speransky, Mikhail Mikhailovich 67–8, 112–13, 204

Stadion, Count Philip 49, 50

Staël, Germaine de 53–4, 240

Corinne
54

De l’Allemagne
54

Stalin, Joseph xx, xxi

Stein, Baron Heinrich vom 47, 48, 50, 52, 121, 159, 331, 528.545.553

Steinheil, Gen. V.I. 359

Steininger, J. 142fn

Stendhal 337, 341, 353, 386, 408, 552, 556

Stroganov, Gen. 178

Strzyzewski, Major 346

Studzienka 461–4, 466, 493

Suckow, Lt Carl von 187, 190, 451, 475, 483

Sukhanin, Capt. Nikolai N. 239, 293

Surrugues, Abbé Adrien 347

Suvorov, Count Aleksandr Vasilevich 105

Sverbeev, D.I. 201

Sweden 20, 37, 65–7, 103–4, 119, 131, 196, 247, 545

Switzerland 40, 41, 125

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de 38, 55, 112, 132

Tarle, Evgenii Viktorovich xx–xxi

Tarquinio, Signor, 347

Tarutino 332–3, 348, 359–61, 369, 370–1, 523, 526

Tascher, Maurice de 488

Tatarinovo 252

Tauroggen, Convention of 535

Thielmann, Gen. 349, 417

Thirion, Sgt Auguste 89, 216, 266, 277, 475, 509

Tiesenhausen, Countess 163, 165, 528, 529

Tilsit 140

Treaty of 27–32, 43, 53, 53, 64, 65, 70, 104, 124, 147.306, 553

Tippoo Sahib, Sultan of Mysore 33

Toll, Col. Karl Friedrich von 122, 127, 370

accused of insulting Bennigsen 317

appointed Barclay’s quartermaster 169

at Borodino 251–3, 273, 274, 275, 286

relations with fellow officers 238

secret mission to Poniatowski 126

urges offensive 375, 388, 422

Tolochin 458

Tolstoy, Count (Russian ambassador to France) 33

Tolstoy, Count Leo Nikolaevich: xviii

War and Peace
xv, xviii, 63, 328

Tormasov, Gen. Aleksandr Petrovich 117, 140, 194, 203, 359, 412, 437

Torun 83, 135, 535, 540

Trafalgar, Battle of 15

Traversay, Marquis de 122

Troitsky, N.A. xxi

Tsarevo-Zaimishche 240, 249, 251

Tuchkov, Gen. Nikolai Alekseievich 256, 268, 273, 287

Tuchkov, Gen. Pavel Alekseievich 223–5, 228, 241

Tugendbund
48, 53

Tula 305, 333, 549

Turgeniev, A.I. 528

Turkey 28, 102, 119, 126

alliance with France 20, 103, 104

relations with Poland 195

Russian ambitions in 32, 37, 77

treaty with Russia 29, 104, 119, 195, 203, 205, 246

wars against Russia 25, 75, 103

see also
Constantinople

Tutolmin, Gen. Ivan Akinfevich 306

Tyndal, Col. 423

Tyrol 51

Ukraine 195, 305

Ula river 406

Ulm, Battle of 25, 42

Union of Welfare 551–2

United States of America 66–7, 196, 339, 524

Uspenskoie 380

Usviate 238

Utitsa 268, 280

maps 253, 269, 279

Uvarov, Gen. Fyodor Petrovich 178, 256, 275–6, 291, 387

Uxküll, Lt Boris von, Baron 183–4, 218, 236, 295, 324, 325, 332, 434, 485

Valutina Gora 223–5, 228, 408

map 224

Vandamme, Gen. 106, 133, 168, 546

Varlaam, Archbishop of Mogilev 198

Vassilchikov, Prince 236

Venturini, Giuseppe 137, 184, 530

Verdier, Gen. 185

Vereia 373, 377

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