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The War of Wars

Page 107

by Robert Harvey


  Battles of Quatre Bras and Ligny 878–9, 880–5, 899–900

  British ambassador to France 863–5

  character 600, 607, 695–6, 732–3, 735–7, 742, 873–4

  death 911

  early life 600–2

  in Flanders 603

  in France 755–6, 841, 842, 847

  Battle of the Nivelle 756–7

  Battle of Orthez 757

  Battle of Toulouse 758

  march on Paris 906

  in India 604–11

  and Lines of Torres Vedras 704–8, 709, 710

  made Duke of Wellington 704

  Portuguese expedition 599, 612–18

  Battle of Vimeiro 616–18, 631

  proconsul of France 907–8, 913

  relations with wife 602, 604, 612, 696, 864

  returns to Portugal 632–3, 654, 696–9

  Battle of Oporto 696–9

  in Spain 699, 715–20, 723–7, 730–3, 734–41, 742–8, 749–53

  Battle of Fuentes Onoro 715–17

  Battle of Salamanca 737–41

  Battle of Talavera 700–3

  Battle of Vitoria 750–1, 832

  fall of Badajoz 731–3

  siege of Burgos 743–4

  storms Ciudada Rodrigo 724–5

  takes and loses Madrid 740–1, 744–6

  Wesley, Garret, 1st Earl of Mornington 599–600

  Wesley, Richard, 1st Baron Mornington 599

  West Indies 142–5, 170, 197, 262, 263, 265, 375, 409, 425, 428, 433, 434–5, 436, 436–8, 439, 536, 538–9, 634, 925

  Westphalia 508–9, 529, 633

  Whitelocke, Lieutenant-General John 499, 502

  Whitworth, Lord Charles 170, 379–80, 408, 580

  Wickham, William 139

  Wilberforce, William 105, 106, 139, 419, 502

  Wilkes, John 94, 99

  William, Prince (later King William IV) 262, 265, 295

  Williams Wynn, Charles 378

  Williams Wynn, Frances 92

  Williams Wynn, Henry 511, 528

  Williams Wynn, Sir Watkin 101

  Williamstadt 34

  Wilson, Harriet 864

  Wilson, Robert 134–7

  Wilson, Sir Robert 803–4

  Windham, William 376, 383, 407, 493, 498, 570, 925

  Windward Islands 143, 144

  Wittgenstein, Field Marshal Ludwig 793, 809, 810, 816, 825, 830

  Wolfe, Captain 651

  Wolfe, Charles 631

  Wolfe, General James 140, 591

  women, in France 385–6

  Wordsworth, William 378, 397

  Wright, Commander John 210, 391, 394–5, 484, 577, 580, 581

  Wroxall 93

  Wurmser, General Dagobert 121, 168, 169, 176, 177

  Württemberg 482, 490, 839

  Wurzburg, Battle of 171

  Wyatt, James 101

  Yarmouth, Lord 502

  Yorck, General Johann David von 283, 817, 821, 852

  York, Frederick, Duke of 126, 128–9, 130, 133, 137, 139, 265, 333, 334, 421, 592, 603, 614

  Yorke, Charles 209, 727

  Yorktown, Battle of 141, 482

  Young, Admiral William 366, 565

  Zamoyski, Adam xii

  Zaragoza 587, 613, 619, 627, 631, 751

  Ziethen, General Hans von 891, 893, 894, 896

  Zoublow, Prince 352–3

  Zurich, Battle of 333, 346

  Louis XVI is seized by the mob, 1792

  The Royal Palace in Paris under siege, 1792

  Young man about to change the world: Napoleon at 16

  Conqueror of northern Italy: Napoleon’s most glorious campaign, 1797

  The Battle of Cape St Vincent: Britain’s first decisive naval victory, 1797

  French Pharaoh and the Sphinx: Napoleon in Egypt, 1798

  Battle of the Nile: Nelson strands the French in Egypt, 1798

  Brumaire: Napoleon seizes power, 1799

  Battle of Copenhagen: Nelson dares, and wins, 1801

  France prepares to invade Britain: boats, balloons and tunnels, in an imaginative contemporary engraving, 1804

  William Pitt the Younger

  Nelson dies as he learns of triumph at Trafalgar, 1805

  Austerlitz: Napoleon’s greates victory

  Napoleon and Alexander of Russia: imaginative depiction of the raft at Tilsit, 1807

  Archduke Charles at Aspern: Austria’s greatest general, 1809

  The French take Oporto, start of the Peninsula War, 1809

  Death of Sir John Moore at La Coruña, 1809: a magnificent career nipped in the bud

  Salamanca: Wellington’s finest battle, 1812

  The horrors of the Peninsula Wars as depicted by Goya

  Moscow burning: awesome Russian self-immolation, 1812

  Suffering beyond endurance: the retreat from Moscow, 1812

  Caged beast: caricature of Napoleon in Elba, 1814

  Blucher: bluff but great Prussian general

  Iron Duke: Wellington on horseback

  The Battle of Waterloo, 1815

 

 

 


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