Russian front (!812), soo, 509-IO, sr6,
517-!8, 52!, 531, 532, 538; withdrawal
fr om, 547, 549-50
surrenders to Allies, 59 5
viceroy in Italy, 314, 371, 425, 436, 576,
577
Beauharnais, Hortense de (stepdaughter),
98, !02, 205, 243, 259, 301, 315, 371,
384, 465
bequest from Napoleon, (r8rs), 630
created princess, 297
death of son (Napoleon Charles), 372,
383
gives birth to Louis (Napoleon III), 385
marries Louis Bonaparte, 271-2;
breakdown, 385, 472
provides shelter for Napoleon at
Malmaison (r8rs), 630
Beauharnais, Josephine de, see Josephine,
Empress
Beauharnais, Stephanie de, 3r8--r9, 386
Beaulieu, General, IIO, r r r, II6, 121, 145
Bedoyere, General de Ia, 6r6, 628
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 297, s6r
Beker, General, 630
Belgium
campaign of r8rs, 613-27
popularity of Napoleon, 437-8
Belliard, General, 194, so8
surrenders Cairo to British, 199
Bennigsen, General, 36r, 362, 365-8, 370,
372, 373, 374 - s, 563, 567, 570, 571,
578
Beresford, General, 458
Berkeley, Admiral, 457
Berlin, 355, 547
occupation of, 358, 360
Bernadotte, Marshal Jean-Baptiste, 147,
154, 156, 169, 181, 2!0, 2! I, 2!2, 213,
214, 233, 243, 244, 253, 28o, 308, 309,
31 I, 319, 338, 341, 344, 346, 356, 357,
358, 369, 424, s64, s66, s67, 570, 571,
57 5, 578, 6oo, 664
ambassador to United States, 273
becomes King of Sweden, 471, 494;
allies Sweden to Russia (r8r2), sor,
547, s63
bitterest enemy of Napoleon, 13o-I, r89,
2ofrj
death, 663
envoy to Vienna, r6r, 172, 207
governor and commander-in-chief of
Hanover, 273
governor of Anspach and prince of
Pontecorvo, 346
humiliated by Napoleon, 220, 22 1, 273
intrigue against Napoleon, 294, 47 1-2,
50 I, 598, 666
marriage to Desiree, r89, 206
Marshal of France, 305
Bernhard, Prince of Saxe-Weimar, 614
Bernier, Bishop, 246, 248
Bernoyer, Fran<;ois, 177-8, 192
Berry, due de, murder of, 66r
Berthier, Marshal Louis, ro8, 131, 147,
rs8, !70, !76, r8r, r8s, !98, 214, 2!5,
279, 309, 340, 354, 373, 559, s66, s87,
666
Army of the Reserve, 227, 228
Chief of Staff Grand Army, 349
death, 6r2-13
incompetence, 412, 424
Marshal of France, 304
Minister of War, 223, 349
Prince of Neuchitel and Wagram, 306,
447
rules Neuchitel, 346, 425
Russian fr ont (r8r2), 509, s ro, sr8
Berthollet, Claude Louis, 171, 198
Berton, Jean-Baptiste, 17
Berton, Louis, 17
Bertrand, Comte Henri-Gratien (aide), 94,
sso, ssr, 553, 594, 598, 6ro, 633, 637,
638, 64o, 642, 646-7, 649, 6sr, 654-5,
6 s9-6o
legacy fr om Napoleon, 66o
Bertrand, Fanny, 637, 6 sr, 66o
Bessieres, Field Marshal, 198, 307, 399,
453, 457
closeness to Napoleon, 309
Guards commander, 309
killed at Weissenfeld, 551
Marshal of France, 305
Russian fr ont (r8r2), 525, 532
Bessieres, Adele, 309
Beugnot, 441
Minister of Police, 315
Bignon, ambassador in Warsaw, 441
Bingham, Colonel, 639
Blanchard, 2 5
Blucher, Field Marshal, 358, 550, 551, 553,
554, sss, 563, s64, s66, s67, s69,(^57) 8---9, 580, 581-2, 583, 584, 61 I, 612
Belgian campaign (r8rs), 613-27
occupies France (r8r8), 653
victory at Waterloo, 619-27
Bodin, Louis, 163, r64, 204
Bon, General, 170, 177, 179, 195
death at Acre, r 92
Bonaparte, Carlo (father), 2-4, 5, 6, 8,
2!-2, 49, 57, 66
audience with Louis XVI, 21
Corsican nobility conferred, 9
dies penniless from cancer, 2 5, 32
joins French overlords as assessor of the
Royal Jurisdiction in Ajaccio, 9
legal wrangle for Mite IIi estate, 9, 2 r
relations with Napoleon, 13, 14, 19