Minto, Lord. _See_ Elliott, Sir Gilbert Miranda de Douro, 230 Mitchell, Col. H. H., 51st, 164, 165, 227, 242, 259, 261, 275, 279, 280, 281, 283, 284, 290, 292, 293, 297; commands 4th British Brigade at Waterloo, 277; death of, 304 Moita, 146 Monasterio, 215, 218 Mondego R., 277; first expeditionary force to the Peninsula lands near the mouth of the, 124 Mons, 277, 278 Mont Aya. _See_ Peña de Haya Mont de Marsan, 269 Mont St Jean, 282, 285 Moore, Gen. Sir John, Lt.-Col. commanding 51st Regt., 19, 35, 64, 141, 309; character of, 35; his treatment of young officers, 39, 59; interviews Adm. Ld. Hood, 40; his special mission to Corsica, 41, 42, 43; in attack on St Fiorenzo, 44-46; at siege of Bastia, 47; at capture of Calvi, 50-52; wounded, 50; his care of sick, 54; on staff work in Corsica, 56, 63, 71; opinion of Corsican troops, 65 _n._, 111; rupture with Sir G. Elliott, 73, 80; ordered home, 74; influence over officers, 90; military reform, 101, chap. vi. _passim_; commanding at Canterbury, 103; selection of officers, 103, 104; trains a brigade for war, 105-120; his camp at Shorncliffe, 114-119, 250; views on tactics and discipline, 105, 106, 113-120, 200; in command of British forces in Portugal, 126; marches to meet Baird, 128-130; his plans for harassing Napoleon, 130; decides to attack Soult, 131; retreat to Corunna, 132-138; death of, 139; general order relating to death of, 39 _n._; his decorations, 262 Morillas Mountains, 232, 233 Mortier, Gen. (Fr.), 151 Moscow, Napoleon's retreat from, 228 _Moselle_, the, 33, 59 Mounted Infantry compared with Light Infantry, 109 Moustaches, introduction of, 6; worn by French at Waterloo, 300 Mules as baggage animals, 258 Musket, flintlock (the "Brown Bess" in use throughout the War, 1793-1815), 112, 136, 208, 235, 284, 285, 287, 288, 294, 300 _n._ Mysore, conquest of, 92, 93, 96 Namur, 277, 296 Nanclares, 233, 234 Napier, Sir C., his opinion on flogging, 23; in Ionian Isles, 309 Napier, Sir G. T., 248 Napier, Sir W. F. P., the historian, 151, 153 _n._, 154, 192 _n._, 217, 220, 228, 243, 248, 249, 255, 261, 271; his advocacy of flogging, 203, 204 Naples, Joseph Bonaparte King of, 124 Napoleon. _See_ Bonaparte, Napoleon Nava de Avel (Nava d'Aver), 154 Navy, British, 42, 43, 49, 67, 87, 88, 100, 262 Nelson, Adm. Lord, 33, 43, 49, 50, 69, 78, 79, 80, 83, 87, 100 Netherlands, 91, 275, 285, 286 Ney, Marshal, Duc d'Elchingen, Prince de la Moskowa, 145, 146, 270, 285, 286; attacks Wellington at Quatre Bras, 279, 280; at Waterloo, 289 Nile, battle of the, 87 Nive R., 258; battles of the, 265-267 Nivelle R., 258, 259, 260; battle of the, 248, 259-261, 265, 292, 299