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List of Plates | |
Maps and Plans | |
Introduction | |
Translator's Preface | |
November Night | |
The Guard is Born | |
The Ancestors | p. 3 |
The Guard of the Consuls | p. 7 |
Marengo | p. 13 |
The Guides of Bonaparte | p. 20 |
'The Guard' | p. 24 |
Savages and Sailors | p. 30 |
The Fledglings | p. 35 |
The Guard Keeps Watch | |
The Imperial Guard | p. 41 |
Coronation | p. 46 |
The March to Vienna | p. 52 |
Austerlitz | p. 60 |
A Packful of Glory | p. 67 |
Precarious Peace | p. 71 |
Jena | p. 76 |
Berlin | p. 80 |
Eylau | p. 84 |
The Household Troop | p. 90 |
Friedland | p. 97 |
Paris | p. 103 |
The Guard Suffers | |
South by Stealth | p. 111 |
Madrid | p. 117 |
The Marines at Baylen | p. 123 |
The Poles at Somosierra | p. 130 |
Benavente | p. 139 |
The Young Guard | p. 144 |
The Long Road Back | p. 148 |
Essling | p. 153 |
Wagram | p. 158 |
Schonbrunn | p. 165 |
The Guard in Splendor | |
Imperial Bridegroom | p. 171 |
The Gilded Phalanx | p. 177 |
The Fetes of 1810 | p. 183 |
Days of Anxiety | p. 188 |
The 'Baby Guard' | p. 194 |
The School of the Guard | p. 198 |
Cavaliers and Guns | p. 204 |
The Music of the Guard | p. 209 |
The Guard in Action | |
The 'Majestic Migration' | p. 217 |
Poland | p. 225 |
Smolensk | p. 231 |
Borodino | p. 237 |
Moscow | p. 241 |
The Retreat | p. 248 |
Krasny | p. 255 |
Crossing the Berezina | p. 261 |
The Remnants | p. 268 |
The Guard Takes Charge | |
Improvisation | p. 275 |
The New Guard | p. 281 |
Lutzen | p. 287 |
Bautzen | p. 295 |
The Armistice | p. 301 |
Dresden | p. 306 |
The Battle of Nations | p. 313 |
The Retreat | p. 320 |
Invasion Threatens | p. 325 |
The Guard at Bay | |
Alarm and Confusion | p. 333 |
Bar-sur-Aube | p. 338 |
Brienne | p. 343 |
Montmirail | p. 349 |
Chateau-Thierry | p. 356 |
Mind Over Matter | p. 361 |
Craonne | p. 368 |
Rheims | p. 377 |
Arcis-sur-Aube | p. 382 |
The Eleventh Hour | p. 387 |
The Guard Staggers | |
The Fall of Paris | p. 395 |
Fontainebleau | p. 400 |
Betrayal | p. 405 |
A Dynasty in Liquidation | p. 410 |
'Farewell, My Children' | p. 416 |
The Guard Falls | |
The Dissolution of the Guard | p. 425 |
The Royal Grumblers | p. 429 |
The Guard at Elba | p. 437 |
The Guard Dies | |
The Flight of the Eagle | p. 449 |
The Restoration of the Guard | p. 459 |
The Last Muster | p. 465 |
The Last Campaign | p. 473 |
Waterloo | p. 481 |
The Death of the Guard | p. 492 |
The Aftermath | p. 500 |
Chronological List of Guard Units | p. 506 |
Troop Levies 1800-1815 | p. 509 |
Dates of Principal Events | p. 510 |
Arms and Tactics of the Guard | p. 512 |
Napoleon's Coach at Waterloo | p. 517 |
Notes on Illustrations | p. 519 |
Notes on Artists | p. 522 |
Author's Bibliography | p. 532 |
Index of Names of Persons | p. 538 |
Acknowledgements | p. 563 |
Plates | |
Maps and Plans | |
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