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    Cauvery rivers 53, 54
    Chandler, David 220
    Charles II, of England 5
    Charles IV, of Spain 103–4
    Charles X, of France 20, 281
    Charlotte, Queen 96
    Chartist demonstrations 291, 292
    Cintra, Convention of (1808) 121, 122, 122–3
    enquiry into 123–4, 125
    Ciudad Rodrigo 146, 148, 154, 163, 183–4
    storming of (1812) xv, 155–7, 290
    Clarke, General Sir Alured 48, 68
    Clarke, Mary Anne 126
    Clarkson, Thomas 205
    Clausel, General 167, 170, 185, 198
    Clausewitz, Karl von 217, 300
    Clinton, Sir Henry: Division 209, 210, 221
    Clive, Lord Robert 38, 44–5
    Close, Lt Colonel Barry 46, 47, 61, 62, 69
    Wellington to 65, 69
    Coburg, Prince of 30
    Cocks, Major the Hon Edward Somers 170–1
    Codrington, Admiral Sir Edward 270
    Coimbra, Portugal 147
    Colborne, Colonel Sir John (
later
Field Marshal Lord Seaton) 191, 200, 249, 298–9
    Cole, Colonel the Hon Galbraith Lowry 95, 151, 175, 181, 183, 221
    Collins, Colonel John 70, 71, 73, 74
    Colville 209, 210
    Coningham, Lady 261
    Constant-Rebecq, Major General 227
    Cooper, Duff 203
    Cooper, Private John Spencer 154, 161, 199, 280
    Copenhagen (Wellington’s horse) 101–2, 238, 250, 271
    Copenhagen, siege of (1807) 100–1, 119
    Corn Laws 215, 272, 292
    Cornwallis, Lord 42, 45, 51, 84
    Corrigan, Gordon:
Wellington: A Military Life
xix
    Coruña, La, battle of (1809) 124, 129
    Costello, Sergeant Edward 161, 252
    Cotton, Admiral Sir Charles 108
    Cotton, Lt General Sir Stapleton (
later
Lord Combermere) 139, 167, 211
    Cradock, Sir John 84, 125, 130
    Crane, Tom 183
    Craufurd, Major General Robert 144, 146, 148, 155, 156–7
    Creevey, Thomas 175, 215, 251
    Wellington to 259
    Crocodile
, HMS 107–8
    Croker, John Wilson 22, 106, 271, 300
    Wellington to xvi, 61–2, 97, 106–7, 268, 288
    Cromwell, Oliver 5
    Cuesta, Don Gregorio de la 132–3, 134–6
    Cumberland, Duke of 278, 280–1
    Dalrymple, Sir Hew 109, 118–19, 120, 121, 124
    Dangan Castle, County Meath 6, 7, 10, 24
    Danish expedition (1807) 100–1, 102, 103
    Danvers, Charles 38–9
    Delaborde, General 112, 113
    De Lancey, Lady Madeleine 223
    De Lancey, Colonel Sir William 211, 216, 222, 223, 229, 238, 248
    d’Erlon, General 147, 240, 241
    Dhoondiah Waugh 64–5, 118
    Dickson (Royal Artillery commander) 179, 180
    Diomed (Wellington’s horse) 47, 53, 78, 80
    Disraeli, Benjamin 289–90, 299
    Donegal
, HMS 107
    Donnellan, Lt Colonel Charles 139
    Dörnberg, Major General Sir William 219, 226
    Douro, Arthur Richard Wellesley, Lord 98, 202, 262, 266, 267, 278, 297–8
    Douro, Lady 291, 297, 301
    Drewe, Lieutenant 238
    Dublin 7, 22, 98, 102, 124–5
    Dulong, Major 131
    Dundas, General Sir David 123
    Dungannon, Lady 8, 21
    Durrani, Ahmad Shah 68
    Duthilt, Captain 241–2
    Dyas, Ensign 27, 154
    East India Company 37–8, 42, 64, 67, 68–9
    Edgeworth, Maria 96
    Elers, Captain George 58, 67, 86, 201
    Ellenborough, Lord 272
    Enniskillen, Lord: Wellington to 125
    Erskine, Lt General Sir William 150, 169
    España, General Don Carlos de 157, 168
    Eton College 8
    executions 10–11
    Falmouth, Lord 275
    Ferdinand, King of Spain 187, 198–9, 265
    Ferrers, Earl 11
    Ferrey 167
    Filoze, Colonel Baptiste 71
    Fingall, Lord: Wellington to 99
    Fitz William
(Indiaman) 44
    Fitzgerald, Lord Edward 26
    Fitzgerald, Lieutenant 57
    Fitzgerald, Vesey 273
    Fitzherbert, Maria 280, 290
    Fletcher, Ian:
Galloping at Everything
164, 174
    Fletcher, Colonel Richard 158, 179, 180
    Wellington to 142, 143
    flintlock muskets 13–14
    Fortescue, Sir John 28, 29, 209–10
    Fox, Charles James 94, 98
    Foy, General Maximilien 146, 168, 205, 239
    Francis, Sir Philip 38
    Franco, General Francisco 162
    Frederick William III, of Prussia 20
    Freese, Captain John William 86
    Freire, Major General Bernadino 109, 112
    French Revolution 22, 300
    Freneida, Spain 173, 175, 177, 184
    Frere, John Hookham: Wellington to 133, 141
    Fuentes de Oñoro, battle of (1811) xvii, 131, 141, 148–50, 153, 154, 170
    Gaikwar of Baroda 68
    Garth, Thomas 280–1
    Gawilghur, storming of (1803)