faults at Eylau and Wagram, 173.
=Berthollet, C. L.=, plunders Italian scientific collections, i. 369;
accompanies _N._ on his return from Alexandria, ii. 81;
member of the senate, 151.
=Berton, L. S.=, i. 61.
=Bertrand, Gen. H. G.=, base conduct at Vienna, ii. 369;
in campaign of 1813, iii. 402;
in battle of Bautzen, 410;
beleaguers Schweidnitz, 413;
battle of Dennewitz, iv. 18;
driven by Bluecher to Bitterfeld, 22;
battle of Leipsic, 28, 29, 30, 32, 35;
takes Weissenfels, 35;
defends the Rhine at Kastel, 54;
begs _N._ to abandon Belgium and the left bank of the Rhine, 70;
at the abdication scene, 121;
accompanies _N._ to Elba, 134, 138;
sends positive instructions to Grouchy, 187, 191;
escorts _N._ from the field of Waterloo, 211;
accompanies _N._ to Rochefort, 219;
accompanies _N._ to St. Helena, 227.
=Bertrand, Mme.=, present at _N.'s_ death-bed, iv. 235.
=Bessarabia=, alleged concession of, to Russia, iii. 55.
=Bessieres, Gen. J. B.=, service in Egypt, ii. 53;
created marshal, 323;
in battle of Austerlitz, 387;
in Eylau campaign, iii. 15, 16;
created Duke of Istria, 86;
income, 87;
character, 93;
_N.'s_ opinion of, 93;
invades Spain, 132, 134, 143;
instructions to, concerning Spanish policy, 140;
ordered to arrest Ferdinand, 144;
besieges Santander, 156;
defeats the Spaniards at Medina de Rio Seco, 156;
occupies Old Castile and Aragon, 155;
ordered to connect with Junot, 157;
at Miranda, 183;
pursues Hiller, 209;
battle of Essling, 220;
commanding the Young Guard, 324;
killed at Rippach, 404, 406;
importance of his loss to _N._, 404.
=Bethencourt, Gen.=, crosses the Simplon, ii. 172;
near Domo d'Ossola, 172.
=Beugnot=, regent of Berg, iii. 421;
anecdote concerning, 421, 422.
=Beurnonville, Marquis de=, _N.'s_ envoy to Prussia, ii. 156;
royalist intrigues of, iv. 115, 140.
=Beys=, the Egyptian, ii. 58.
=Biberach=, battle of, ii. 167.
=Biberich=, anecdote of _N._ at the castle of, iii. 422.
=Bible=, _N.'s_ study of the, iv. 231.
=Bicetre, prison of=, imprisonment of a milliner in, iii. 92.
=Bielostok=, united to Russia, iii. 56, 62.
=Bilbao=, Lefebvre near, iii. 183.
=Bisamberg=, junction of Archduke Charles and Hiller at, iii. 212, 216;
military operations near, 228, 229.
=Biscay=, _N.'s_ contemplated movements in, iii. 184;
military government of, 279.
=Bismarck, Prince Otto von=, policy in, 1875, ii. 269.
=Bitterfeld=, Bertrand driven by Bluecher to, iv. 22.
=Biville=, landing of the Cadoudal conspirators at, ii. 298.
=Black Elster, River=, military movements on the, iv. 20.
=Black Forest, the=, Dessaix defeats the Austrians in, i. 440;
military operations in, ii. 166, 365.
=Black Legion, the=, organization of, iii. 234;
defeats Junot at Berneck, 234;
defeats the Saxons at Nossen, 234.