=Bennigsen, Gen. L. A. T.=, assassin of Paul I, ii. 380;
commanding Russian forces at Breslau, 380;
battle of Pultusk, iii. 4, 8;
general-in-chief of the Russian army, 8, 9;
position at Szuczyn, 8;
turns back Ney from Koenigsberg, 8;
attempts to reach Dantzic, 9;
attempts to destroy Ney, 10;
defeated at Mohrungen, 10;
military genius, 9, 27;
campaign of Eylau, 13 et seq.;
captures French courier at Eylau, 14;
retreats to Koenigsberg, 18;
hampered for men and funds, 20;
moves against Ney on the Passarge, 28;
retires behind the Alle, 29;
strength, summer of 1807, 28;
battle of Heilsberg, 29;
injurious delays by, 30;
battle of Friedland, 31;
abandons Heilsberg, 32;
confesses defeat, 32;
retreats across the Niemen, 31;
reinforcements for, 32;
proposes an armistice, 34, 36;
commanding in Poland, iv. 3;
reaches Teplitz, 22;
in battle of Leipsic, 32.
=Berchtesgaden=, apportioned to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, ii. 266;
ceded to Austria, 391;
embodied in the Confederation of the Rhine, iii. 239.
=Beresina=, battle of, compared with that of Friedland, iv. 37.
=Beresina, River=, the crossing of the, iii. 363, 366, 374.
=Berg, Grand Duchy of=, quota of men, ii. 404;
French seizure of lands near, 420;
vassalage to France recognized at Tilsit, iii. 54;
the Grand Duchess quarrels with Queen Hortense, 179;
scheme to incorporate it with France, 266;
Louis Napoleon created Grand Duke, 279;
the French regency of, 421;
French influence in, 423.
=Bergamo=, the revolutionary movement in, i. 428, 436, 437.
=Bergen=, battle of, ii. 93.
=Bergeres=, Bluecher retreats to, iv. 65.
=Berlier, M.=, assists in preparation of the Code, ii. 222.
=Berlin=, consternation in (1797-98), ii. 41;
Sieyes' mission to, 41;
French party in, 155;
the visits of Alexander I to, 376, 438;
war feeling in, ii. 417;
_N._ refuses to treat outside of, 435;
_N.'s_ entry into, 438;
_N._ receives Polish deputation in, 444;
French occupation of, iii. 12;
centralization in, 374;
Eugene at, 393;
the Prussian court removed to Breslau from, 396;
patriotism in the university, 398;
defense of, 399;
proposed allotment of, to Jerome, 409;
threatened by Oudinot, 413;
England's diplomacy in, 417;
French demonstrations against, iv. 2;
Buelow commanding at, 3;
overestimate of its strategical value, 5;
Bluecher's road to, blocked by Lauriston, 8;
failure of Oudinot and Macdonald in movements against, 13-20;
_N._ determines to march on, 17, 18;
possible movement toward, 26.
=Berlin Decree=, the, ii. 441; iii. 45, 48, 49, 101, 119, 273, 321.
=Berlin University=, iii. 103.