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2 Cited in P. de Ségur, Memoirs of an Aide-de-Camp of Napoleon, 1800-1812 (Stroud, 2005), p. 140.

3 R. de Montesquieu-Fézensac, Souvenirs Militaires de 1808 à 1814 (Paris, 1863), p. 33.

4 Ségur, Memoirs, p.146.

5 Cited in ibid., p.148.

6 J. Fouché, Memoirs of Joseph Fouché, Duke of Otranto, Minister of the General Police of France (London,1892), p.201.

7 Duc d’Audiffret-Pasquier (ed.), Mémoires du Chancelier Pasquier - Première Partie: Révolution, Consulat, Empire (Paris,1895-1914), vol. I, pp. 219-20.

8 E. de Saint-Hilaire, Souvenirs intimes du Temps de l’Empire (Paris,1860), vol. I, p. 263.

9 Hulot, Souvenirs Militaires, pp. 89-90.

10 Montesquieu-Fézensac, Souvenirs Militaires, p.32.

11 Ibid., pp.64-5.

12 Hulot, Souvenirs Militaires, p. ; Montesquieu-Fézensac, Souvenirs Militaires, p. 46; M. Barrès (ed.), Memoirs of a French Napoleonic Officer: Jean-Baptiste Barrès, Chasseur of the Imperial Guard (London,1955), p. 55.

13 P. Haythornthwaite (ed.), Life in Napoleon’s Army: the Memoirs of Captain Elzéar Blaze (London,1995), pp.2-3.

14 Cited in J. D. Markham, Imperial Glory: the Bulletins of Napoleon’s Grande Armée, 1805 - 1814 (London,2003), pp. 9-10.

15 B. T. Jones (ed.), Napoleon’s Army: the Military Memoirs of Charles Parquin (London, 1987), p. 185.

16 Cited in A. Forrest, Napoleon’s Men: the Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire (London, 202), p. 93.

17 A. J. M. de Rocca, Memoirs of the War of the French in Spain, ed. P. Haythornthwaite (London,1990), p. 21.

18 A. Bell (ed.), Memoirs of Baron Lejeune, Aide-de-Camp to Marshals Berthier, Davout and Oudinot (London,1897), vol. I, p.28.

19 J. Fortescue (ed.), The Note-books of Captain Coignet, Soldier of the Empire (London, 1928), p.122.

20 Cited in Forrest, Napoleon’s Men, pp.100-101.

21 Cited in ibid., p.103.

22 Cited in ibid., p.26.

23 Haythornthwaite, Life in Napoleon’s Army, p.177

24 Cited in Earl of Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington, 1831 - 1851 (London,1888), p.9.

25 H. d’Ideville (ed.), Memoirs of Colonel Bugeaud from his Private Correspondence and Original Documents, 1784 - 1814 (Worley Publications facsimile edition,1998), p.54.

26 Cited in M. de Klinkowstrom (ed.), Memoirs of Prince Metternich, 1733 - 1815 (London, 1880), vol. I, p.56.

27 Cited in Third Earl of Malmesbury (ed.), Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury (London,1844), vol. IV, p.340.

28 Cited in L. Strakhovsky, Alexander I of Russia: the Man who Defeated Napoleon (London,1949), p.68.

29 C. de Mazade (ed.), Mémoires du Prince Adam Czartoryski et Correspondance avec l’Empereur Alexandre Ier (Paris,1887), vol. I, p.410.

30 Whether he actually said this is a moot point - Ehrman, who is Pitt’s leading modern biographer, admits that no definite reference can be found for anything of the sort. Cf. J. Ehrman, The Younger Pitt, II: the Consuming Struggle (Stanford, California,1997), p.822.

31 Cited in R. Eden (ed.), The Journal and Correspondence of William, Lord Auckland (London,1860-62), vol. IV, p.260.

32 Cited in A. Palmer, Metternich, Councillor of Europe (London, 1972), p.48.

33 C. M. de Talleyrand-Périgord, Memoirs of the Prince de Talleyrand, ed. by Duc de Broglie (London, 1891), vol. I, p.225

34 Ibid., p.228.

35 Cited in J. M. Thompson, Napoleon Bonaparte (Oxford,1988), p.286.

36 Cited in Correspondance de Napoléon I publiée par ordre de l’Empereur Napoléon III (Paris,1858; hereafter CN), vol. XI, p.509.

37 Cited in ibid., vol. IX, p.345.

38 A. F. L. de Viesse de Marmont, Mémoires du Maréchal Marmont, Duc de Raguse, de 1792 à 1841 (Paris,1857), vol. II, p.228.

39 Cited in CN, vol. XII, p.509.

40 Cited in ibid., p.291.

41 Cited in ibid., vol. XVI, p.161.

42 Cited in ibid., p.474.

43 Sir John Moore to J. W. Gordon, October , British Library, Additional Manuscript 49487, ff.39-43 .

44 Cited in P. K. Grimsted, The Foreign Ministers of Alexander I: Political Attitudes and the Conduct of Russian Diplomacy, 1801-1825