The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 4 (of 4)

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military ability, iv. 14, 59, 183; spurs up Bernadotte at Leipsic, 31; aims to annihilate _N._, 57; warns Bluecher against over-confidence, 62; in Waterloo campaign, 172, 177; orders the Prussian retreat to Wavre, 183, 184; his title to fame, 182, 183; holds Bluecher's troops, 194; doubts Wellington's ability to stand at Waterloo, 194; in battle of Waterloo, 211, 212.

=Godoy, Manuel de=, prime minister of Spain, ii. 204, 289; relations with Queen Louisa, 204, 289, 332; iii. 71, 124, 144, 150; the "Prince of the Peace," ii. 289; iii. 124; proposed kingdom for, in Portugal, 67, 120; Spanish revolt against, 71; treachery to _N._, 71; ill-gotten wealth, 124; relations with _N._, 124, 131; waning power and downfall of, 124, 128, 134, 135, 146; causes arrest of Ferdinand, 126; Ferdinand's charges against, 126; becomes aware of _N.'s_ policy, 132; skill in diplomacy, 131; refuses to assent to French seizure of Portugal, 133; appalled at the French invasion, 133; contemplates a Bourbon monarchy in America, 134; clamor for his death, 135; capture of, 135; seeks protection of Ferdinand, 136; destruction of his property, 135; proposed trial of, 135, 136, 144; hinted order that he come to France, 140, 141; summoned to Bayonne, 145; popular hatred of, 146; at Compiegne, 148; infamy of, 150.

=Goethe, Johann W. von=, meetings with _N._, iii. 172; decorated at Erfurt, 176; on _N._, 319, 322; the idealist among thinkers, iv. 242.

=Gohier, M.=, member of the Directory, ii. 92; represents Jacobin element in the Directory, 94; falls under Josephine's influence, 97; president of the Directory, 97; joins the Bonapartist ranks, 97; proposed resignation of, 101; seeks counsel with Barras, 106; refuses to resign, 108; imprisonment of, 108, 115.

=Gohlis=, military operations near, iv. 29-32.

=Goldbach, River=, military operations on the, ii. 385-388, 392.

=Golden Book, the=. _See_ =Venice=.

=Goltz=, at Tilsit, iii. 49, 57; interview with _N._, 60.

=Golynim=, military operations near, iii. 4.

=Goerz=, ceded to France, iii. 239.

=Goess=, castle of, treaty of Leoben signed in, i. 437.

=Gosselies=, military operations near, iv. 175, 176.

=Gotha=, imprisonment of St. Aignan at, iv. 42.

=Goettingen=, Bernadotte ordered to, ii. 362; patriotism in the university, iii. 398.

=Gourgaud, Gen.=, accompanies _N._ to Paris, iv. 105; advises a return to Lorraine, 116; requests interview with Souham, 126; accompanies _N._ to Rochefort, 219; goes to London to seek English asylum for _N._, 223; accompanies _N._ to St. Helena, 227; mission to secure _N.'s_ release, 231; assists _N._ on his history, 232.

=Government=, Rousseau's views on, i. 8; the centralization of, ii. 218; the mystery of, iii. 389.

=Gradisca=, storming of, i. 433.

=Graham, Gen.=, commanding English troops in the Netherlands, iv. 57.

=Grain=, monopoly of trade in, i. 105.

=Grand army, the=, _N.'s_ distrust of, iii. 45; passes from Prussia to Spain, 182; Murat commanding the remnants of, 373; demoralization of, 373; crosses the Niemen, 384.

=Grandmaison=, charges plots among the Five Hundred, ii. 115.

=Granville, Lord=, on affairs in France, i. 297.

=Grasse=, _N.'s_ march through, on return from Elba, iv. 154.

=Graudenz=, precarious situation of the garrison of, iii. 10; Bennigsen attempts to succor, 10; demanded by _N._ as a pledge, 36.

=Gravina, Adm.=, escapes from Trafalgar, ii. 374.

=Great Britain=, the modern empire of, ii. 55. _See also_ =England=.

="Great Elector,"= the office of, ii. 126, 322.

=Great Goerschen=, fighting at, iii. 405.

=Great Raigern=, military operations near, ii. 382.

=Great St. Bernard Pass=, the passage of the, ii. 169-171.

="Great Terror," the=, i. 250.

=Greece= (=ancient=), influence on French art, iii. 88; effects of ambition in, iv. 261; the history of, 293.

=Greece=, Nelson seeks the French fleet at, ii. 61; proposal that France take, iii. 50; _N._ plans the liberation of, 51; the national awakening of, iv. 300.

=Gregoire, Henri=, influence on the Consulate, ii. 195; royalist intrigues of, 195.

=Gregorian calendar=, restoration of the, ii. 346.

=Gregory VII=, ii. 340.

=Grenadier Guards=, in battle of Waterloo, iv. 201.

=Grenier, Gen.=, in battle of Hohenlinden, ii. 191; division commander under Eugene, iii. 393.

=Grenoble=, Pius VII a prisoner at, iii. 119, 242; _N.'s_ march to, on return from Elba, iv. 154; imperial proclamation at, 156; obeys _N.'s_ summons to surrender, 156; _N.'s_ welcome at, 156; _N._ at, 165.

=Grenville, Lord=, letter to Talleyrand from, ii. 143; on _N.'s_ wickedness, 144.

=Grisons, the=, quarrel between the Valtellina and, ii. 11; Austrian violation of neutrality in, 72; Kray's communications via, to be cut, 164.

=Grodno=, Jerome at, iii. 336.

=Gros, A. J.=, painter, ii. 351; created a baron, 354.

=Grosbois=, residence of Barras, ii. 119.

=Grossbeeren=, battle of, iv. 14, 16, 19.

=Gross-Ebersdorf=, military operations near, iii. 217.

=Grouchy, Gen. E.=, in battle of Hohenlinden, ii. 191; at Tilsit, iii. 52; commanding cavalry in Russian campaign of 1812, 324; in battle of Vauchamps, iv. 64; recreated marshal, 167; movements and orders in the Waterloo campaign, 170 et seq., 179, 186, 191-194, 200, 213, 267; letter to _N._, June 17, 1815, 187, 191; suspected unwillingness of, 187; Gerard to cooeperate with, 190; uneasy conscience of, 191; garbled account of Waterloo by, 191; at Walhain, 192, 213; criticism of, 192; at Wavre, 194; _N.'s_ reliance on, 207, 213; ordered to retire on Namur, 211, 214; responsibility for disaster at Waterloo, 213; victory at Wavre, 214; leads his army back to France, 214.

=Guadarrama Mountains=, _N._ crosses the, iii. 186-188.

=Guadeloupe=, French plans to strengthen, ii. 333.

"=Guardian Angel, The=," near Craonne, the Emperor's night at, iv. 78, 79.

"=Guard of honor=," the proposed, iii. 390.

=Guards= (=English=), in battle of Waterloo, iv. 209.

=Guastalla=, given to Pauline (Buonaparte), ii. 395; granted to Maria Louisa, iv. 133.

=Guastalla, Duchess of=, Pauline created, iii. 279.

=Gudin, Gen.=, in battle of Pultusk, iii. 4; in the Eckmuehl campaign, 208.

=Guerin, Pierre N.=, created baron, iii. 297.

=Guernsey=, Russian soldiers transported to, ii. 141.

=Guiana=, Pichegru escapes from, ii. 161.

=Guidai=, engaged in Malet's conspiracy, iii. 376.

=Guieu, Gen.=, in the Rivoli campaign, i. 410, 414.

=Guilleminot, Gen.=, mediator between Russia and Turkey, iii. 105; in battle of Waterloo, iv. 199.

=Guillotine, the=, work of, i. 251.

=Gueldengossa=, military operations near, iv. 28.

=Guenzburg=, Mack essays to cross the Danube at, ii. 366.

=Gustavus Adolphus=, scene of his defeat of Wallenstein, iii. 404.

=Gustavus IV=, king of Sweden, hated by his subjects, iii. 35; in Pomerania, 36; weakness of, 36; gives place to Charles XIII, 280.

=Guyot=, battle of Waterloo, iv. 203.

=Gyulaei=, Austrian diplomatic agent, ii. 381.

=Gyulay, Gen.=, battle of Leipsic, iv. 28, 32.

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=Hadrian I=, Charles the Great's donation to, revoked by _N._, iii. 215.

=Hague, The=, removal of the capital to Amsterdam from, iii. 277.

=Hal=, Wellington's troops at, iv. 190, 195.

=Halberstadt=, the Black Legion's escape through, iii. 234.

=Halkett, Hugh=, in battle of Waterloo, iv. 210.

=Halle=, Bernadotte's victory at, ii. 436; the Black Legion's escape through, iii. 234; patriotism in the university, 398; Bluecher's advance to, iv. 26, 27.

=Hamburg=, negotiations between France and Prussia concerning, ii. 154; laid under contribution, 286, 287; closed to British commerce, 287; seizure of Rumbold at, 330; proposal to give it to Prussia, 400; French occupation of, 443; Spanish troops in, iii. 159; Bernadotte's force in, 202; smuggled commerce of, 265; scheme to incorporate with France, 266; position in the French Empire 279; sends deputation to Paris, 380; rising against the French garrison, 402; captured by Vandamme, 407; Danish troops sent to, 407; occupied by Davout, 413; the status quo to be maintained in, 414; _N._ offers the city to Austria, 424; end of _N.'s_ defensive line, iv. 1; Davout besieged at, 55.

=Hameln=, attempt to besiege, ii. 416; capitulation of, 436.

=Hamilton, Alexander=, U. S. treasury system, iv. 259.

=Hanau=, Oudinot's command in, iii. 203; battle of, iv. 35; compared to Krasnoi, 36.

=Hannibal=, _N.'s_ allusion to, i. 357; his passage of the Alps, ii. 169, 186.

=Hanover=, _N._ threatens to seize, ii. 282; George III, Elector of, 287; French occupations of, 287, 331, 418, 443, iii. 202, 266; Prussia negotiates with France for, ii. 356, 362; the French garrison replaced by Prussians, 362; ceded to Prussia, 390, 400, 405; negotiations for its return to George III, 400, 418, 420; attempt to drive the French from, 416; troops in Pomerania, iii. 36; allotted to Jerome, 266; Jerome deprived of part of, 278; excepted from the scheme of Prussian aggrandizement, 398; England abandons scheme for extension of, 399; Prussia promises to cede part of Saxony to, 417; proposed cession of Hildesheim to, 417; restored to its former ruler, iv. 40; campaign of the Hundred Days, 170 et seq.

=Hanover, the House of=, ii. 317.

=Hanseatic towns=, free cities, ii. 405; Joachim I's aspirations concerning, 416; proposal to include in North German Confederation, 418; hesitate to reply to Prussia, 420; neutrality of, iii. 46; virtual dependence on France, 66; smuggled commerce of, 265; scheme to incorporate them with France, 266; _N._ offers to evacuate, 272; offered to Louis for Brabant and Zealand, 270; England threatened with loss of trade with, 272; _N._ refuses to cede points concerning, 392; proposal that France evacuate the, 407; proposed independence of the, 415; iv. 30.

=Happiness=, _N._ on, i. 137.

=Hapsburg, House of=, end of its policy of territorial expansion, ii, 193; effect of the Bayonne negotiations on, iii. 163 et seq.; seeks indemnity for lost domains, 195; hopes of regaining lost territory, 199; demoralization in, 215; matrimonial alliance with _N._, 249, 251; iv. 43; democratic blows at the dignity of, iii. 256; iv. 37; withdraws from the leadership of Germany, iii. 330.

=Harcourt=, on affairs in France, i. 297.

=Hardenberg, Prince K. A. von=, aims at consolidation of Prussia,