After Moscow: "Advance or Retreat?" V. Werestchagin 280 Marshal Ney defending the Rear-Guard Adolphe Yvon 288 1814 J. L. E. Meissonier 302 The Flight from Waterloo A. C. Gow, R.A. 308 Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon Sir W. Q. Orchardson, R.A. 312 "1812" NAPOLEON I IN RUSSIA By Vassili Verestchagin Illustrated from Sketches and Paintings by the Author CONTENTS Page Introduction 1 On Progress in Art 16 Realism 24 I Napoleon 53 II The Burning of Moscow 180 III The Cossacks 220 IV The Grande Armée 227 V The Marshals 256 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS Page Vassili Verestchagin Frontispiece A Dispatch 72 Russian Grenadiers 78 At Borodino 92 Looking towards Moscow 108 Disillusion 128 On the Way Home 145 Bivouac 155 Despair 162 At a Council of War 176 Armed Peasant 186 In a Russian Church 197 Ney and the Staff 252 ENGLAND AND NAPOLEON (1801-1815) Compiled By S. E. Winbolt CONTENTS DATE TITLE PAGE Introduction v 1801. Battle of the Baltic Campbell 1 1801. State of Ireland "Diary of Lord Colchester" 3 1801. Golf and Football Strutt 8 1802. Party Speeches of Sheridan and Canning Stanhope 9 1803-1815. Typical Vessels of the Royal Navy Clowes 13 1803. Desire for Pitt's Return to Office Stanhope 15 1803. Canning on Addington Stanhope 17 1803. Notes by Pitt on the War, Germany, and Napoleon Stanhope 18 1803. Gun-boats for Defence "Diaries of George Rose" 20 1804. The Poor in Manufacturing Towns "Gentleman's Magazine" 21 1804. Wheat, Flour, and Bread "Gentleman's Magazine" 24 1805. England and the Mediterranean (I.) Pitt 25 England and the Mediterranean (II.) Nelson 26 1805. The Blow that Killed Pitt (I.) Pitt 27 The Blow that Killed Pitt (II.) Canning 28 1805. Routine on a British Man-of-War Clowes 29 1805. Nelson's Plan for Trafalgar Clowes 32 1805. Trafalgar Southey{viii} 34 1806. The Younger Pitt Scott 43 1806. Ministry of All the Talents Earl of Malmesbury 44 1806. Military Plans Lord Colchester 46 1807. Catholic Emancipation (I.) Lord Colchester 47 Catholic Emancipation (II.) Malmesbury 50 1807. Party Politics Leigh Hunt 52 1807. Berlin Decrees Colchester 53 1809. Corunna (I.) Colchester 55 Corunna (II.) Charles Wolfe 55 1809. Public Economy "Diaries of George Rose" 57 1809. Resignation of Portland Colchester 58 1809. Duel of Canning and Castlereagh Colchester 59 1806-1809. Military Expenses Colchester 60 1809. Talavera: Protest by Lords Protests of the Lords 61 1810. Walcheren Expedition Colchester 62 1810. Wellington's Difficulties in Spain Wellington's Despatches 65 1811. The Regency Colchester 71 1811. Fête at Carlton House Colchester 73 1812. Weaving Machines Byron's Letters 76 1812. Badajoz Wellington's Despatches 79 1812. Murder of Perceval Colchester 84 1812. Sheridan's Last Utterances in the House Moore 85 1813. Sir Stapleton Cotton's Military Services Colchester 86 1813. Vittoria Wellington's Despatches 87 1814. Deposition of Napoleon Byron's Letters 95 1814.