to give up the entertainment. The next day the ignorant part of the audience was so curious to know the secrets which these East India Gentlemen had been thus industrious to conceal, that the bookseller (as he told me himself) sold infinitely more copies of the play that day than all he had sold the whole of the preceding six months, and had he ten times more, they would not have answered the numerous demands.’ Career with Napoleon Getting into trouble again he became a diplomat in St Petersburg (1802–1805) and Vienna, Berlin and Madrid. In between he was the secretary of war in Holland (1807) under Louis Bonaparte. In 1810 he was appointed as general in the Grande Armée and aide-de-camp of Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon's invasion of Russia On 1 July 1812 he was appointed as governor of East Prussia and Lithuania organizing hospitals for the wounded in Vilnius and supplies for the army. In early December 1812, Louis Henri Loison was sent with a reserve division of 10,000 newly drafted German and Italian boys to help extricate the remains of the Grand Army in its retreat. Either Van Hogendorp or Joachim Murat stupidly ordered him to defend the road to Smurgainys. At night-time, the soldiers were camping on the ground and the temperature dropped to minus 35 degrees Celsius, which proved catastrophic for them. Within a few days, a division of 15,000 soldiers was wiped out without a fight. After the Napoleonic Wars After the Battle of Waterloo Van Hogendorp was mentioned in Napoleon's last will. Van Hogendorp, not allowed to return to Holland, moved in 1816 to Brazil, then part of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves. Van Hogendorp lived his last years on a small plantation operated by enslaved people owned by van Hogendorp, growing coffee and oranges. References Notes Bibliography Bastin, J. Indonesië, jaargang 7, 1953/1954, blz. 80. External links http://www.parlement.com/9291000/biof/17104 NAPOLEON'S LITHUANIAN FORCES by HENRY L. GAIDIS 1761 births 1822 deaths Members of the Dutch Patriots faction Dutch nobility Dutch slave owners People from Bernisse Dutch military commanders of the Napoleonic Wars Dirk People of the Kingdom of Holland Dutch emigrants to Brazil