besieges Ingolstadt, 430, 444, 456, 465, 474;
death, 490
Badges. _See_ Arms and Armour
Bahadur, Shah (Mogul Emperor, 1707), ii. 174
Bannerets, i. 26
Bar, Duke of, i. 69
Barbados, Cromwell's expedition to, i. 261; ii. 40, 347.
_See also_ West Indies
Baroney, General, ii. 158
Barracks, dislike to, in England, ii. 22;
at Hampton Court and Windsor, 36;
in colonies, 41
Barret, a military pamphleteer, i. 139
Barrington, Lord, ii. 288
Barrington, Colonel John, ii. 347;
commands in West Indies, 353, 367
Basalut Jung (1759), ii. 457
Basque Roads, the, ii. 308
Basseterre, Fort of, ii. 350
Battalion, origin of word, i. 182
Batthyany, General, ii. 150
_Battles:_--
Agincourt, i. 54-63
Aire (siege), i. 557
Albuquerque (siege), i. 459
_Algesiras_, i. 32
Alicante (siege), i. 528
_Aljubarotta_, i. 53
Almanza, i. 485-487, 566
Almenara, i. 531
Amöneburg, ii. 556
Arcot (siege), ii. 200
Arinez, i. 45
_Arsouf_, i. 13
Athlone, i. 349
Aughrim, i. 349
Auldearn, i. 223, 229
_Auray_, i. 43
Badajoz (siege), i. 459
Bahoor, ii. 217
Bannockburn, i. 18
Barcelona (siege), i. 459
Barnet, i. 76
Beaujé, i. 62
Beaumont, i. 10
Bergen, ii. 480
Bethune (siege), i. 537
_Bicocca_, i. 99
Blenheim, i. 433
_Bois-le-Duc_ (siege), i. 169
Bosworth, i. 77
Bouchain (siege), i. 548
Bouvines, i. 15
Boyne, the, i. 349
_Breda_ (siege), i. 168
_Breitenfeld_, i. 184-188
Brihuega, i. 532
Brückemühle, ii. 555
Brussels (siege), i. 509
Calais (siege), i. 37, 126
Cassel (siege), ii. 557
_Castagnaro_, i. 52
Caya, the, i. 529
_Cerignola_, i. 97
Chatillon, i. 71
_Chotusitz_, ii. 84
Clifton Moor, ii. 137
_Cocherel_, i. 42, 267
Condore, ii. 443
Cork (siege), i. 350
Covelong (siege), ii. 218
Covrepauk, ii. 204-208
Crecy, i. 4, 22, 33-37
_Creveld_, ii. 341
Cuddalore, ii. 187
Culloden, ii. 144-148
Derry (siege), i. 342
Dettingen, ii. 93-102
Douay (siege), i. 537
Drogheda, i. 238
Dunbar, i. 242; ii. 38
Dunkeld, i. 340
Dunkirk, i. 271
_Durazzo_, i. 8
Edgehill, i. 200
Emsdorff, ii. 504
Falkirk, i. 4, 17
Flodden, i. 115
_Flushing_ (siege), i. 142
Fontenoy, i. 513, ii. 110-121
Fourmigny, i. 71
_Fribourg_, i. 270
_Fulda_, ii. 498
_Gemblours_, i. 143
_Gerberoy_, i. 69
Gibraltar (siege), i. 448
Gohfeld, ii. 494
Golden Rock, ii. 224, 230
_Granson_, i. 83
Grantham, i. 203
Grünberg, ii. 523
Halidon Hill, i. 19
Harfleur (siege), i. 55
_Hastenbeck_, ii. 307
Havana (siege), ii. 542
Havre (siege), i. 132
Herrings, the. _See_ Roveray
_Hochkirch_, ii. 10
_Hochstädt_, i. 415
Huy (siege), i. 370
Isandlwana, ii. 141
Killiecrankie, i. 339
Kinsale (siege), i. 350
Kloster Kampen, ii. 514
_Krotzka_, ii. 50
_Kunersdorf_, ii. 498
La Hogue, i. 368
Landau (siege), i. 444
Landen, i. 371-376
_Langensalza_, ii. 523
Lauffeld, ii. 159-162
_Lens_, i. 270
Leuse, i. 358
_Leuthen_, ii. 313
_Liegnitz_, ii. 518
Lille (siege), i. 504-511
Limoges (siege), i. 47
Louisburg, ii. 258, 321
Lowestoft, i. 294
_Lutter_, i. 174
_Lutternberg_, ii. 552
_Lützen_, i. 189
Madras (siege), ii. 181
Malplaquet, i. 517-527
Manila (siege), ii. 497
Marburg (siege), ii. 497
_Marignano_, ii. 184
Marston Moor, i. 205
Maseyk (siege), i. 405
Menin (siege), i. 474
Minden, ii. 268, 485-497
Minorca, capture of, i. 511;
(siege), ii. 291-295
_Mollwitz_, ii. 80
Monongahela, ii. 274-279
Mons (siege), i. 358
_Morat_, i. 83
Mortimer's Cross, i. 74
Namur (sieges), i. 360; ii. 151
_Nancy_, i. 83
Naseby, i. 224
Navarete, i. 46
Newburn, i. 184, 198
Newbury, i. 208
Newton Butler, i. 342
_Nieuport_, i. 161-165
_Nürnberg_, i. 189
Ostend (siege), i. 160
Oudenarde, i. 497-501
Patay, i. 69
_Pavia_, i. 98, 184
Philipshaugh, i. 228
Pinkie, i. 124
Plassey, ii. 418
Poictiers, i. 38-41
Pondicherry (siege), ii. 189;
(capture), 473
Porto Bello (siege), ii. 58
Preston, i. 234; ii. 7
Prestonpans, ii. 129, 131
Quebec, ii. 364-383
Quesnoy (siege), i. 32
Ramillies, i. 466-473
_Ravenna_, i. 197
_Renty_, i. 103
Rochelle, i. 48
_Rocroi_, i. 190, 200
_Rossbach_, ii. 313
Roucoux, ii. 153
Rouen (siege), i. 131
Roundway Down, i. 203
Roveray, i. 167
Ruremond (siege), i. 405
_Rymenant_, i. 143
Sainte Foy, ii. 392
_St. Jacob-en-Birs_, i. 83
St. Quentin, i. 105, 126
St. Venant (siege), i. 337
_Sandacourt_, i. 69
_Saverne_ (siege), i. 190
Schellenberg, the, i. 423
_Sempach_, i. 50
Sheriffmuir, ii. 7
_Sluys_ (siege), i. 115
_Spires_, i. 415
Spurs, the, i. 115
Stamford Bridge, i. 6
Standard, the, i. 10
Steenkirk, i. 361-367
Stevenswaert (siege), i. 405
Tenchbrai, i. 9
Terouenne (siege), i. 115
Ticonderoga, ii. 328
_Torgau_, ii. 519
Tournay (siege), i. 115, 380, 514
Towton, i. 74
Trarbach (siege), i. 444
Trichinopoly, ii. 209. _See_ Golden Rock
Valenza (siege), i. 459
Vellinghausen, ii. 527-530
Venloo (siege), i. 405
Verneuil, i. 65, 270
Villa Viciosa, i. 534
Walcourt, i. 338
Wandewash, ii. 463-470
Warburg, ii. 510
Weycondah, i. 232
Wilhelmsthal, ii. 549
Winceby, i. 204
Worcester, ii. 247
Wynendale, i. 507, 585
York (siege), i. 205
Ypres (siege), i. 273
_Zenta_, i. 416
Ziegenhain (siege), ii. 513
Zutphen, i. 147-150
Bauer, General, i. 187
Bavaria, Elector of, i. 406, 412, 418, 422, 427, 432, 443, 446, 471,
493;
at siege of Brussels, 509; ii. 80, 86
Bayard, Chevalier, i. 22
Bayonet. _See_ Arms and Armour
Bayreuth, Margrave of, i. 470
Beaujeu, Captain, i. 274
Beckwith, Colonel, ii. 510
Bedford, John, Duke of, i. 64
Bedmar, Marquis of, i. 412
Bellasys, Brigadier, at Landen, i. 375
Belleisle, Marshal, ii. 81, 103
Belleisle, Expedition against, ii. 521
Bennett, Captain Joseph, i. 448
Bermuda, British troops in, i. 560
Berry, Duke of, i. 493
Bertrand du Guesclin, i. 43, 46
Berwick, James, Duke of, i. 304, 344;
at Landen, 373, 446;
commands French in Spain, 482;
his Memoirs, 489;
defeats Allies at Almanza, 485;
at Douay, 504
Best, Captain, ii. 170
Bevere. _See_ Oudenarde (under Battles)
Bills. _See_ Arms and Armour
Birch, Colonel, i. 334
Biron, commands under Vendôme, i. 497
Black Prince, at Crecy, i. 34;
in Guienne, 37;
line of march into Spain, 45;
defeats Henry of Trastamare, 46;
siege of Limoges, 47;
his death, 48;
influence on European warfare, 50-53
Black Hole of Calcutta, ii. 299
Blair Castle, ii. 143
Blake, Admiral Robert, i. 249; ii. 170
Blakeney, General, ii. 68, 139, 292, 295
Blathwayt, William, i. 410
Bligh, General, ii. 342, 345
Bohemia, John, King of, i. 36
Bolingbroke. _See_ St. John
Bolton, Duke of, ii. 20
Bombards. _See_ Arms and Armour
Bombay given to Charles II., i. 292;
made over to East Indian Company, ii. 171
Bonn, capitulates to Allies, i. 412
Borgard, Colonel Albert, i. 560;
first Colonel of Royal Artillery, ii. 49
Boscawen, Admiral, ii. 187, 272, 315
Boswell, _Life of Johnson_ quoted, ii. 23
Bothmar, General, at Blenheim, i. 439
Boufflers, Marshal, i. 369, 401, 411;
out-generalled by Marlborough, 402-405;
defence of Lille, 504, 516, 522, 529
Bougainville, French officer at Quebec, ii. 368, 376, 397
Bouquet, Colonel, ii. 323, 333, 338
Bourlamaque, French commander in Canada, ii. 371, 397
Bouvines, Marlborough's army marches over field of, i. 513
Bow. _See_ Arms and Armour
Brabant, Duke of, i. 61
Braddock, General Edward, ii. 268-273;
his action at Monongahela, 274-278;
his death, 279;
and character, 280
Bradstreet, John, ii. 331, 338
Braine l'Alleud, Marlborough encamps near, i. 456
Brayne, Colonel Richard, i. 252
Brennier, French commander in India, ii. 226
Brereton, Major, ii. 438, 454, 468
Breslau, Treaty of, ii. 85
Brest, Expedition against, i. 377
Brétigny, Peace of, i. 42, 73
Bringfield, Colonel, killed at Ramillies, i. 470
Brissac, Duke of, ii. 487
Broglie, Marshal, ii. 84, 480, 495, 502, 507, 514, 523;
defeat at Vellinghausen, 530;
recalled to France, 547
Browne, Thomas (trooper 3rd Dragoons), ii. 98
Bruce, Robert, i. 18
Brunswick, Hereditary Prince of, ii. 495;
at Fulda, 498, 503;
action at Emsdorff, 506, 509, 517, 523, 525, 528;
repulsed by Condé, 553
Buchan, Earl of, i. 62
Buckingham, George, Duke of, i. 192;
assassinated, 193
Buckler. _See_ Arms and Armour
Buller, Colonel, i. 262
Burgoyne, General John, ii. 546
Burgundy, Duke of, i. 64, 66, 70
Burgundy, Duke of, commands French army in 1708, i. 493
Burnet (Governor of New York, 1727), ii. 257
Burnet, Bishop Gilbert, i. 393
Burton, Lieut.-Colonel, at Monongahela, ii. 277
Burton, Colonel, ii. 373, 543
Bussy, De, his work in India, ii. 408;
recalled from Deccan by Lally, 436, 457;
at Wandewash, 468
Bute, John Earl of, ii. 534;
hurries on peace, 557
Butler, Gregory, i. 260
Byng, Admiral, i. 529; ii. 8, 291;
retreat from Minorca, 264;
shot, 295
Cabot, Sebastian, ii. 241
Cadiz, expeditions to, i. 191, 407
Cadogan, General, i. 326;
Marlborough's Q.M.G., 423, 466, 495;
at Wynendale, 508, 515, 542, 552; ii. 11;
death, 53
Caillaud, Captain, ii. 234, 426, 434
Calais, i. 30, 37, 72
Caliver. _See_ Arms and Armour
Callender, Captain, ii. 449
Cameron of Lochiel, ii. 126
Camoys, Lord, i. 58
Campbell, Sir Duncan, ii. 49
Campbell, John, ii. 49
Campbell, General, ii. 112
Canada, growth of our sovereignty in, ii. 241 _et seq._
_See also_ North America
Cannon. _See_ Arms and Armour.
Canute, army of, i. 5
Cape Breton, ii. 206, 321
Captain, origin of title, i. 94
Carbine. _See_ Arms and Armour
Carbiniers, i. 442. _See_ under Regiments, 6th Dragoon Guards
Cardonnel, Adam, Marlborough's Secretary, i. 538, 552
Carlisle, capitulation of to Charles Edward, ii. 135
Carolina, British troops in, ii. 43, 60, 62
Carpenter, General, i. 531, 537
Carteret, Lord, ii. 82, 85, 103
Carthagena, the expedition against, ii. 59, 64, 79
Cartridges. _See_ Arms and Armour
Castries, Marquis of, ii. 515, 548
Catalonia, operations of 1705 in, i. 459
Cathcart, Lord, ii. 59;
letters to Newcastle, 60, 62;
death, 62
Cavalry, early lancers and carbiniers, i. 155;
of Gustavus Adolphus, 182-184;
Royalist cavalry in Civil War, 201;
contrast between it and Parliamentary, 206;
the growth of shock action, 215, 586;
how armed in New Model, 215;
and in 18th century, ii. 585.
_See also_ Regiments.
Cavendish, Brigadier, at Vellinghausen, ii. 528
Cecil, Sir Edward, i. 160, 168, 191, 193
Chain-mail. _See_ Arms and Armour
Champlain, Samuel, ii. 241
Chandos, Sir John, i. 41, 44, 47
Chaplet. _See_ Arms and Armour
Charlemont, Lord, i. 460
Charles I., recalls English soldiers from Holland, i. 192;
methods of raising men, 194;
unfurls standard at Nottingham, 199;
relations with Montrose, 222;
gallantry at Naseby, 226;
reverses of, 228;
throws himself on Scots, 233;
army request his trial, 235;
execution, 236;
Indian Empire under, ii. 170
Charles II., i. 3;
treats with Scots, 238, 247;
restoration of, 277;
colonial enterprise under, 293, ii. 170;
alliance with Louis XIV., i. 295;
death, 298
Charles Edward, Prince, ii. 124;
raises standard at Glenfinnan, 126;
enters Edinburgh, 129;
Prestonpans, 130;
marches south, 134;
his retreat, 137;
siege of Stirling, 139;
Culloden, 144-148
Charles V. (of France), i. 42
Charles VI. (of France), i. 50, 55
Charles VII. (of France), reforms French army, i. 70, 94
Charles VIII. (of France), i. 92
Charles V. (Emperor), i. 99, 121
Charles, Archduke of Austria (afterwards Charles III. of Spain,
afterwards Emperor), i. 447, 462, 485, 534, 540; ii. 80
Charles of Blois, i. 42
Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, i. 83
Charles, Prince of Lorraine, ii. 105, 150
Chartres, Colonel, i. 573
Chatham, William Pitt, Earl of, cornet in King's Dragoon Guards,
ii. 20, 54;
denounces Spanish convention, 56;
Paymaster of Forces, 62;
refuses to serve under Newcastle, 287;
return to power, 299;
his Militia Bill, 302;
dismissed from office, 303;
but recalled, 304;
campaign of 1757, 309;
American schemes of, 315-338;
management of war in Europe, 339-346;
African policy, 347, 359;
Canada again, 350, 395;
European campaigns only to divert French, 477;
support of Ferdinand of Brunswick, 501, 521;
fall from power, 534;
what he achieved for army, ii. 568
Cherbourg, bombardment of, ii. 342
Chinglapet, ii. 218
Chittagong, ii. 172
Christian IV. (of Denmark), i. 174
Chunda Sahib (Nabob of Arcot 1749), ii. 176, 193, 197, 200, 214
Churchill, General Charles, i. 407, 417, 422, 430, 441, 457
Chuttamuttee, ii. 172
Civil War, the, i. 199-286.
_See also_ Charles I.
Clarence, Duke of, i. 62
Clarke, Sir William, first Secretary-at-War, i. 311;
killed at sea, 312
Claverhouse, James Graham of, i. 297;
victory at Killicrankie, 339
Clavering, Brigadier, ii. 354
Cleland, Colonel, killed at Dunkeld, i. 341
Clermont, Prince of, ii. 152
Clive, Robert, ii. 180, 184;
distinguished at siege of Pondicherry, 190, 198;
Arcot, 200;
further successes of, 203;
Covrepauk, 204-208;
his presence of mind, 211, 213;
takes Covelong, 219;
his power as a leader, 220;
expedition against Surajah Dowlah, 411;
attacked at Budge Budge, 412;
treaty with Meer Jaffier, 415;
Plassey, 416-425;
Deccan policy of, 441;
and the Dutch, 460
Closterzeven, capitulation of Cumberland at, ii. 307
Clothing, origin of uniform, i. 14, 44;
red coats in 15th century, 56;
coat money, 110;
white coats under Tudors, 111, 114;
gunners' uniform, 123;
dress of king's body-guard, 124;
of landsknechts, 128;
poor equipment of English troops under Elizabeth, 131;
the cassock, 135;
description of in military pamphlets, 137;
scarves worn by English in Dutch army, 169;
Highland dress, 174;
royal colours first worn by Parliamentary troops, 213;
tawny coats of artillery, 217;
clothing of Cromwell's Irish army, 237;
of English in French army, 271;
scarlet coats adopted, 283;
blue of William the Third's infantry, 337;
grenadiers' plumes, 325;
colonels have to provide for clothing of men, 391;
uniforms at Blenheim, 439;
white coats of French, 469;
reforms due to Marlborough, 571;
of colonial troops, 563, ii. 41;
Frederick William's influence on, 51;
regulations of George II. as to, 52;
regimental numbers first appear on buttons, 583
Cobham, Lord, ii. 10.
_See_ Temple, Richard
Cochrane, Lord, ii. 345
Cohorn (engineer), i. 413
Coignies, Count of, i. 415
Colbert, ii. 172
Coligny, The Admiral, i. 143
Colonel, origin of, i. 93
Colours. _See_ Arms and Armour
Commissioners of Public Accounts, i. 381
Commissions of Array, i. 16, 197
Condé, Prince of (the Great Condé), i. 200, 270, 296
Condé, Prince of, ii. 109 (1762), 539, 553
Condottieri, the, i. 22
Conflans, French commander in India, ii. 442;
defeated at Condore, 445
Contades, Marshal, successful against Ferdinand of Brunswick,
ii. 481-485;
defeated at Minden, 487-497
Conti, Prince of, ii. 150
Contrecoeur, Monsieur, ii. 274
Controllers of Accounts, i. 410
Conway, Lord, i. 196
Conway, Colonel Henry, ii. 301, 307, 573
Cook, Captain James (navigator), ii. 387
Coote, Colonel Eyre, ii. 358, 413, 424, 455, 459;
victory at Wandewash, 463-470;
reduction of French posts in India, 471
Cope, General John, ii. 125;
defeat at Prestonpans, 129-131;
removed from command, 133
Cornbury, Lord, i. 306
Cornet, origin of, i. 118
Cornish, Admiral, ii. 544
Cornwallis, Colonel, ii. 263, 308
Corporal, origin of, i. 95, 136
Corselet. _See_ Arms and Armour
Craggs, James, Secretary-at-War, ii. 25
Craigie, Lord Advocate, ii. 125
Craven, William, Lord, i. 169, 307
Crawford, John, Earl of, ii. 50
Crillon, French officer in India, ii. 458
Croft, William, composes service for Marlborough's funeral, ii. 13
Cromwell, John, i. 169
Cromwell, Henry, i. 255, 274
Cromwell, Oliver, i. 200;
defeats Royalists at Marston Moor, 206;
first called Ironside, 207;
Lieutenant-General, 223;
Naseby, 227;
ingratitude of Parliament to, 231;
short methods with Commons, 233;
Commander-in-Chief, 239;
Scottish campaigns, 240-247;
Lord Protector, 251;
army under, 251;
Irish Settlement, 256;
colonial policy of, 258-266;
alliance with France, 266-274;
his death, 274;
his system summed up, 280;
fine character of his army, 282;
his work, 286
Cromwell, Richard, succeeds Oliver, i. 274;
death, 552
Crown Point, ii. 242, 257, 282, 315
Crump, Colonel, ii. 353, 356
Crusades, effect of on army, i. 13
Cuba, taken from Spain, ii. 543.
_See_ Havana
Cuirass. _See_ Arms and Armour
Cuirassiers, i. 183
Culverin. _See_ Arms and Armour
Cumberland, Prince William, Duke of, ii. 53;
at Dettingen, 101;
Commander-in-Chief, 109;
Fontenoy, 110;
criticisms of his generalship at, 120;
position after the battle, 122;
recalled to England, 132;
command in Scotland, 141;
Culloden, 144-148;
returns to Low Countries, 156;
defeat at Lauffeld, 159-163, 268;
his errors as a leader, 279, 287, 303;
Hastenbeck and Closterzeven, 307;
effect of his reforms on army, 566
Cunningham, Colonel of the 9th Foot, i. 342
Cunningham, Major of Engineers, ii. 293
Cutts, Colonel John, Lord (the Salamander), at Venloo, i. 405;
at Blenheim, 434; ii. 70
Dacca, ii. 172
Dagger. _See_ Arms and Armour
Dalrymple, Governor of Guadeloupe, ii. 538
Dalton, Captain, ii. 213, 220
Dapfheim, occupied by Marlborough, i. 432
Darcy, Lord, in favour of English gunners, i. 122
Darts. _See_ Arms and Armour
Das Minas, General, i. 482
Daulhatt's Grenadiers, ii. 510
Daun, Count, ii. 157
D'Aché, Admiral, ii. 428-434, 457
D'Alençon, Duke, i. 35
D'Arco, Count, i. 422
D'Arenberg, ii. 90, 106
D'Armentières, Count, ii. 481, 497
D'Asfeld, General, i. 528
D'Assas, Chevalier, ii. 516
D'Auteuil, French general in India, ii. 211, 427
De Bay, Marquis, i. 529, 531
De Corsana, General, i. 458
D'Espréménil, French commander at Madras, ii. 182
D'Estaing, Count, ii. 430
D'Estrées, Count, ii. 160, 497, 547
De la Galissonière, Admiral, ii. 291
D'Humières, Marshal, i. 338
De la Marck, Count, i. 141
De Leyrit, Governor of Pondicherry, ii. 407
De Monts, colonises Acadia, ii. 241
De Muy, Chevalier, ii. 507
De Noailles, Marshal, ii. 481
D'Oyley, Colonel, i. 264
De Soupire, French commander in India, ii. 430
De Stainville, French officer, ii. 551
De Tavannes, Gaspard, i. 103, 152
De Witt, i. 294
Deane, Private John, i. 572
Denis of Harfleur, ii. 241
Denmark, Prince George of, i. 402
Desertion, causes of, i. 569; ii. 32
Devonshire, Duke of, ii. 298
Diaz, Bartholomew, ii. 168
Diemel, River, Ferdinand of Brunswick's passage of, ii. 509
Dieskau, Count, ii. 281, 283
Digby, Lord, i. 290
Dinwiddie, Governor of Virginia (1753), ii. 264
Dominica, captured from French, ii. 538
Doncaster, Lord, i. 169
Douglas, Earl of, i. 65
Douglas, Sir James, ii. 538
Douglas, Sir Robert, i. 365
Douglas, Colonel, ii. 58
Dragoons, originally mounted infantry, i. 216;
character of, 323.
_See_ Regiments
Draper, Colonel, ii, 438, 544;
conducts siege of Manila, 545
Dreve, General, ii. 486
_Drill and Exercises_:--
Wedge formation at Hastings, i. 6, 7;
Byzantine line of battle, 9, 10;
English line of battle, 13th century, 17;
mediæval cavalry formation, 27;
English line at Agincourt, 58;
formation _en haye_ established, 77;
Swiss formation, 83;
drill of landsknechts, 91;
sergeants connected with drill, 94, 135;
shock action by cavalry, 103, 586;
squadron, 104, 106;
Evolutions of Ælian, 107, 152;
wings first added, 113;
manœuvres in Elizabeth's reign, 129;
Garrard's description of marching, 137;
pike exercise, 138, 170, 179, 213;
adapted to bayonet, 586.
(_See also_ Pike);
Maurice of Nassau's tactics, 152;
regiments and companies, 153;
formation in 16th century, 158;
musket exercise, 170, 213.
(_See also_ Musket);
_Feu de joie_ first fired, 171;
Gustavus Adolphus's reforms, 179;
platoon established, 181;
the drum march, 191;
Kelly's _Pallas Armata_, 194;
New Model formation, 214;
Vernon's "drill-book," 215;
after the Restoration, 323-327;
order of battle in 1703, 414;
platoons at Blenheim, 438;
order of battle at Blenheim and Ramillies, 458, 471, 495;
at Almanza, 485;
firing by platoons, 585;
reforms of Amherst, ii. 370, 403;
excellence of British fire-discipline, 590
Drucour, M., ii. 321
Drury, General, ii. 344
Dumas, Governor of Pondicherry, ii. 176, 274
Dunbar, Major, i. 175
Dunbar, Colonel, ii. 273
Duncombe, Ensign, ii. 170;
Dunkirk, operations against, in 1600, i. 159;
Stair's proposed attack on, ii. 86
Dunmore, Lord, ii. 149
Dupleix, Joseph François, ii. 175;
made Nabob, 178, 181, 194;
fortifies Pondicherry, 189, 198, 215, 221;
fall of, 236;
character and work, 237
Durazzo, i. 8
Durell, Admiral, ii. 361
Durham, Bishop of, i. 17, 30
Du Rocher, French Commander in India, ii. 446
Dutch, English volunteers serve with, i. 141;
war with English, 295;
hamper Marlborough, 402, 412-15, 455, 517;
practically responsible for his fall, 533;
reluctant to co-operate with English in Seven Years' War, ii. 83;
their colonial defeat in India, 456, 460
East India Company, first established, ii. 169;
their settlements in 1701, 172;
military negligence of, 180
Edgcumbe, Commodore, ii. 292
Edinburgh, surrender of to Cromwell, i. 245
Edmunds, Sir William, i. 160
Edward I., i. 16
Edward II., i. 21
Edward III., i. 19, 21;
first campaign in France, 33;
growth of army under, 44
Edward IV., military talent of, i. 74;
at Barnet, 76
Elizabeth, Queen, army under, i. 4, 127-168
Elizabeth, Princess, i. 168
Elliott, Colonel George Augustus, ii. 476
Engineers, first British Engineer, i. 32;
in New Model, i. 219;
slow development of, ii. 589
Ensign, the, i. 94, 135
Erie, Lake, ii. 247
Erie, General, i. 503, 507
Ernest of Nassau, i. 161
Erpingham, Sir W., i. 59
Essex, Lord, at Zutphen, i. 148
Essex, Lord (Parliamentary General), i. 202, 204;
capitulation of his army, 208
Eugene of Savoy, Prince, i. 416, 420, 424, 429;
his attack at Blenheim, 439;
his modesty, 446;
commands right at Oudenarde, 499;
besieges Lille, 504-511;
marches on Tournay, 513;
differs with Marlborough before Malplaquet, 517;
his part in the action, 520;
wounded, 523;
prevents Marlborough from resigning, 539
Fagel, General, i. 446, 458
Fairfax, Sir Charles, i. 160
Fairfax, Sir Thomas, Lord, i. 206;
as a disciplinarian, 223;
ingratitude of Parliament to, 231;
opposes king's execution, 235;
resigns command, 239
Falconbridge, Lord, i. 74
Falstolfe, Sir John, i. 67;
disgraced by Bedford, 69
Family Compact, the, ii. 536
Farokshir (Mogul Emperor, 1712), ii. 174
Felton, irregular cavalry of, i. 45
Felton, assassinates Buckingham, i. 193
Fenton, Edward, ii. 169
Ferdinand of Brunswick, Prince, ii. 339, 477;
defeated at Bergen, 480;
campaign of 1759, 481-485;
Minden, 486-497;
Pitt's support of, ii. 501;
campaign of 1760, 502;
Kloster Kampen, 514-519;
campaign of 1761, 522;
victory at Vellinghausen, 527;
skilful campaign afterwards, 531;
campaign of 1762, 547;
victory at Wilhelmsthal, 549-552;
action at Amöneburg, 555;
fall of Cassel, 557;
estimate of his military ability, 558
Ferguson, Brigadier, at Blenheim, i. 438
Feudal system, as a military organisation, i. 11, 14, 21;
decay of, 109
Feuquières, Marquis of, i. 375
Feversham, Lord, i. 306
Fieffé (historian), i. 190
Fielding, Lord, i. 169
Flanders, Count of, i. 36
Flanders, as a battleground, i. 351-355;
William the Third's campaigns in, 358-380;
Spanish Succession War in, 398;
Marlborough's campaigns in, 412;
French lines in, 451;
campaigns of 1742-1747, ii. 80-123, 149-164
Fleetwood, Charles, i. 239, 255, 274
Fletcher, Andrew, ii. 125
Fleuranges, quoted, i. 115
Fleury, Cardinal, ii. 124
Forbes, Captain Duncan, ii. 125
Forbes, General, ii. 315, 323, 333-336;
death, 337
Forde, Colonel (of 39th), ii. 427, 442;
action at Condore, 445;
storming of Masulipatam, 449;
actions of Chandernagore and Badara, 460-462
Fort Beauséjour, ii. 270
Fort Cumberland, ii. 272
Fort Duquêsne (Pittsburgh), ii. 267, 273, 333
Fort Frontenac, ii. 336, 338
Fort Philip (Minorca), ii. 292
Fort Louis (Guadeloupe), ii. 351
Fort St. David, ii. 186, 222;
taken by French, 431
Fort St. George (Madras), ii. 170
Fort William (Calcutta), ii. 173
Fort William (Highlands), ii. 143
Fort, William Henry, ii. 305
Fortescue, Sir Faithful, i. 169
Fortescue, Colonel Richard, i. 264
Fowke, General, ii. 293
Fox, Henry, ii. 287, 299
Fox, Sir Stephen, first Paymaster-General, i. 310
Francis I., King of France, i. 95, 106
Francis, Duke of Lorraine, ii. 81
Franklin, Benjamin, ii. 268
Frederick William I. of Prussia, ii. 51
Frederick II. (the Great), ii. 80;
Silesia, 84, 106, 164, 291;
European League against, 298, 313, 339, 477, 498, 557;
Pitt's work for, 571
Frederick, Elector Palatine, i. 169
French, our European war with, 1339-1487, i. 32-78;
1691-1713, 351-553;
the Seven Years' War, ii. 80-164;
our struggle with, in India, 172-260, 406-474;
in West Africa, 346;
in West Indies, 349;
in Canada, 246, 263-285, 314, 358-402
_French Regiments:_--
Aubeterre, ii. 116
Auvergne, ii. 516
Bourbonnois, ii. 509
Champagne, i. 521
Couronne, ii. 116
Courtin, ii. 116
D'Hébron, i. 189
Gardes Suisses, i. 327, 374; ii. 115
Gendarmerie, i. 524
Lorraine, ii. 467
Picardie, i. 521
Soissonois, ii. 116
Frisians, in Dutch army, i. 159
Froissart, i. 46, 49
Frontenac, Count, ii. 251
Fronteria, Marquis, i. 529
Frontinus, i. 106
Frundsberg, Georg von, i. 328
Fürstenberg, General, i. 187
Fyrd, the, i. 5, 128
Gage, Colonel, ii. 274, 280, 370
Gage, Thomas, i. 258
Galway, Ruvigny, Earl of, i. 448, 459, 476, 483;
at Almanza, 486, 529
Garrard, military pamphlet of, i. 136
Garrisons, growth of, i. 123;
in Anne's reign, 561;
in colonies, ii. 42-48
Gascony, English in, i. 48
Gates, Captain Horatio, ii. 280
Gauvain, General, i. 519
Gentlemen Pensioners, rise of, i. 124
George I. commands in allied army, i. 490; ii. 4;
good influence of on army, 30;
introduces steel ramrod, 51
George II., i. 493;
at Oudenarde, 498; ii. 35;
courage at Dettingen, 94;
loyalty as an ally, 482;
death, 520
George III., i. 520;
correspondence with Lord North, 576
George of Denmark, Prince, i. 512
Georgia, troops in, ii. 43
Ghent, retaken by French, i. 494
Gibraltar, garrison at, i. 561; ii. 42-44, 46, 565
Gilbert, Sir Humphry, i. 142
Gingee, Bussy's capture of, ii. 196, 216
Ginkell, i. 335;
campaign of 1691, 349, 401;
his jealousy of Marlborough, 402, 406;
death, 412
Giustiniani, describes English army in 1519, i. 117
Glaubitz, General, ii. 504
Gloves, iron. _See_ Arms and Armour
Goa, centre of Portuguese power in India, ii. 168
Godeheu, Mons., succeeds Dupleix, ii. 236;
leaves India, 406
Godolphin, Sidney, i. 358, 382, 512, 538
Goëthe, story of taking of Frankfurt, ii. 479
Gonsalvo of Cordova, i. 97
Gooch, Colonel, ii. 62
Goor, General, i. 425
Goree, capture of, ii. 499
Goring, George, i. 169, 205
Grafton, Henry Duke of, i. 306
Grammont, Count of, at Dettingen, ii. 93;
at Fontenoy, 113
Granby, John, Marquis of, at Minden, ii. 493;
letters to Holdernesse, 507;
at Warburg, 511;
at Vellinghausen, 527;
at Wilhelmsthal, 549;
at Amöneberg, 555
Grant, Major, ii. 49, 69, 335
Gray, James (Hannah Snell), ii. 574
Gray, Thomas, ii. 136
Grenade. _See_ Arms and Armour
Grenadiers, added to regiments, i. 324;
horse grenadiers, 388;
the Louisburg, ii. 361;
Maxwell's at Vellinghausen, 530.
_See also_ Regiments
Griffin, Admiral, ii. 186
Guadeloupe, ii. 349;
taken by English, 356
Guest, General, ii. 131
Guienne, i. 48
Guiscard, Robert, i. 8
Guise, General, ii. 71
Gun. _See_ Arms and Armour
Gunstone. _See_ Arms and Armour
Gustavus Adolphus, i. 3, 17;
Scots in his army, 173, 179;
surgeons in his army, 182, 325;
Breitenfeld, 186;
his march to the Maine, 188;
death, 189;
authorities on, 190;
his tactics adopted at Almanza, 486
Habergeon. _See_ Arms and Armour
Halberd. _See_ Arms and Armour
Hale, Colonel John, raises 17th Lancers, ii. 500
Halifax, military settlement in Nova Scotia, ii. 263
Halket, Colonel Sir Peter, ii. 276
Halket, Major, ii. 337
Hampden, John, i. 200
Handasyde, General, ii. 133
Hanoverian soldiers, ii. 119;
imported into England by George II., 290
Harbord, William, i. 346
Harley, Robert, Earl of Oxford, i. 384;
opposed to war, 536, 538;
miserable administration of army under, 571;
opposes Mutiny Act, ii. 19
Harold, army of, i. 6
Harquebus. _See_ Arms and Armour
Harquebusiers, Italian, i. 24, 137, 143
Harrison, Lieutenant, ii. 237
Harvey, General, ii. 527
Hatchet. _See_ Arms and Armour
Hauberk. _See_ Arms and Armour
Haviland, Brigadier, ii. 396, 540
Hawke, Sir Edward, Admiral, ii. 287, 308, 315, 340, 499
Hawkins, Captain, ii. 169
Hawkwood, Sir John, i. 42, 51;
compared with Marlborough, 52
Hay, Lord Charles, at Fontenoy, ii. 115
Hazelrigg, Sir Arthur, i. 203
Helmet. _See_ Arms and Armour
Henry I., i. 9
Henry V., aggression against France, i. 54;
army under, 54-63;
success at Harfleur, 68;
crosses the Somme, 56;
Agincourt, 60-62;
death, 63
Henry VI, i. 72
Henry VII., army at his accession, i. 109
Henry VIII. and the army, i. 111, 118;
Acts against desertion, 113;
his light cavalry, 114;
encourages archers, 117;
war with France, 118, 120;
progress of army under, 121
Henry of Lancaster, our first engineer, i. 32, 37
Henry of Prussia, Prince, ii. 481
Henry of Trastamare, i. 45
Hepburn, Sir John, i. 173, 189;
killed at Saverne, 190
Herbert of Cherbury, Lord, i. 169
Heron, Colonel, ii. 407
Hesse-Darmstadt, Prince George of, i. 448-461
Hessians, their gallantry as soldiers, i. 437
Heukelom, General, i. 456
Highlanders, first enlisted, ii. 49;
Pitt's enlistment of, 300
Highlands, Monk's campaign in, i. 254
Hill, Colonel, appointed to command without reference to Marlborough,
i. 536, 541
Hill, General, ii. 255
Hobelars, i. 27
Hoby, Sir Edward, i. 139
Hodgson, General, ii. 521
Hogarth, and the '45, ii. 136
Holburne, Admiral, ii. 305
Holdernesse, Lord, ii. 501, 535
Holles, Captain, i. 160
Holmes, Admiral, ii. 372, 499
Holstein-Beck, Prince of, i. 439
Hompesch, General, i. 440, 542
Hopson, General Peregrine, i. 347
Horne, Marshal, i. 186
Horses, armour of, i. 25;
breeding of, for cavalry, 121
Houtmann, James, ii. 169
Howe, Lord, ii. 315, 325;
killed, 326
Howe, Commodore, ii. 340
Howe, Colonel William, ii. 375
Howitzer. _See_ Arms and Armour
Huguenots, in Allied Army, i. 484;
at Oudenarde, 501
Hundred Years' War, i. 22
Hyder Ali, ii. 471
Ilchester, Lord, ii. 290
Imhoff, General, ii. 502
India, French and English struggle for supremacy in, ii. 168-237,
406-474
Ingoldsby, Brigadier, at Fontenoy, ii. 112
Ireland, separate military establishment in, i. 283;
the establishment of 1698, 389;
Walpole denounces it as part of the Standing Army, ii. 18
(for differences of pay in Ireland _see_ Appendix).
Cromwell's campaign in, i. 237;
Schomberg's, 343;
Ginkell's, 349;
Marlborough's, 350
Ireton, Henry, i. 224
Irish, in Spanish army, i. 270;
in French army, 432, 533; ii. 118
Iroquois, the, ii. 248
Italy, the school of war, i. 94
Jacobites, officers favoured at close of Anne's reign, ii. 3;
rebellion of 1715, 5;
opposed to army, 15;
rebellion of 1745, 124-148;
effect of organisation of Highland regiments on, ii. 300
Jacqueline of Holland, i. 66
Jamaica, conquered under Cromwell, i. 264;
troops in, ii. 40, 76
James I., i. 167;
influence on army, 191
James II., his military education, i. 298;
concentrates army at Hounslow, 301;
disaffection of army to, 303;
Irish policy of, 304;
quits England, 307;
lands at Cork, 336;
death, 399; ii. 41;
North American policy of, 250
James Stuart (Old Pretender), in French army in 1708, i. 493; ii. 36
Jefferies, Colonel, ii. 294
Jeffreys, Judge, ii. 38
Jervis, Captain John, ii. 374
Joan of Arc, i. 68
John, King, army under, i. 14
John of Montfort, i. 42
John, Archduke of Austria, i. 143
John of Austria, Don, i. 270
Johnson, Sir William, ii. 260, 269, 282, 369
Joliet, ii. 247
Jones, Colonel, i. 477
Joppa, Richard the First's march from, i. 13
Joseph, Emperor of Austria, i. 540
Joyeuse, Marshal, i. 359
Kane, Colonel, i. 552
Keane, Lieutenant, ii. 206
Keith, James, ii. 10
Keppel, Commodore, ii. 271, 346, 521
Kerjean, ii. 217
Khevenhüller, ii. 89
Kielmannsegge, General, ii. 508, 550
Kilpatrick, Major, ii. 411, 424
Kingsley, General, ii. 521
Kinnear, Major, ii. 216
Kirke, Colonel, i. 306, 342
Klosterzeven, Convention of, ii. 339
Knife. _See_ Arms and Armour
Knight-service, i. 8
Knights, i. 10, 17, 24
Knox, Captain, ii. 449
Königseck, General, ii. 111
La Bassée, lines of, i. 513
La Bourdonnais, Bertrand, a great administrator, ii. 176;
naval action off Ceylon, 180;
quarrel with Dupleix, 181
La Noue, Huguenot Commander, i. 138, 143
Lally de Tollendal, Count, arrives in India, ii. 429;
first successes of, 430, 433;
treatment of Bussy, 437;
siege of Madras, 439, 454, 457;
defeated at Wandewash, 463, 470
Lambert, John, i. 239;
marches against Monk, 275
Lance. _See_ Arms and Armour.
Landsknechts, i. 4, 12, 85, 87, 104;
in Henry VIII.'s army, 114, 121;
their influence, 135
Landwehr, the, i. 5
Langdale, Sir Marmaduke, i. 225
Las Torres, General, i. 476, 481
Lasalle, Robert, ii. 246
Law, French commander, ii. 208
Lawrence, Major Stringer, ii. 157, 192, 195, 209, 217;
action at Golden Rock, 224-226, 315, 437
Leake, Admiral, i. 448, 459, 482
Leeward Islands, troops in, ii. 41
Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, commands British forces in Low
Countries, i. 146;
resigns, 150
Leopold, Emperor of Austria, treachery to Marlborough, i. 490
Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, ii. 51
Leslie, Sir Alexander (afterwards Earl of Leven), i. 173;
commands Scots at Stralsund, 178, 195;
and at Marston Moor, 206
Leslie, David, i. 206;
commands Scots at Dunbar, 240
Levellers, i. 235
Lévis, French commander in Canada, ii. 384, 390, 395, 400
Lieutenant, origin of, i. 94, 135
Ligonier, General, Lord, ii. 108, 123, 149, 153, 162, 288, 308, 585
Lippe-Bückeburg, Count of, ii. 496, 514, 546
Lisle, Lord, i. 72
Littler, Sergeant, brave exploit at Lille, i. 505, 572
Lock, Matthew, i. 312
Lockhart, General William, i. 269
Lord High Admiral, marines placed under, i. 581
L'Orient, descent upon, ii. 259
Los Arcos, Duke of, i. 481
Lottum, Count, i. 502, 507;
at Malplaquet, 519
Loudon, Lord, ii. 128, 143, 289, 296, 304, 314, 547
Louis VI., i. 10
Louis XI., i. 93
Louis XII., i. 93
Louis XIV., i. 295, 355;
war with allies, 358-380;
accepts Spanish crown for his grandson, 397;
recognises Pretender, 399;
effect of Blenheim, 450, 481;
tries to make peace, 512
Louis of Nassau, i. 152
Louisburg, ii. 256, 258, 266
Louvain taken by Marlborough, ii. 473
Louvois, i. 313, 366, 369
Lovat, Lord, ii. 49, 127
Lowestoft, naval action off, i. 294
Lowther, Colonel, ii. 58
Lückner, General, ii. 505, 549
Lumley, General, i. 426, 437
Luxemberg, Marshal, i. 296, 356, 360, 369;
at Landen, 372-377, 453, 467, 526
Macbean, Captain, at Minden, ii. 491
Macdonald, of Glengarry, ii. 126
Macdonald, of Keppoch, ii. 126
Macdonald, Sir John, ii. 125
Machiavelli's Treatise on War, i. 106
Mackay, Sir Donald, i. 174;
at Killiecrankie, 339;
killed at Steenkirk, 364
Macleane, Captain, ii. 449
Madagascar, French settle at, ii. 172
Madras, in 18th century, ii. 180;
siege of (1746), 181;
restored at Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, 191;
siege of (1758), 438
Maestricht, ii. 183
Mahmoud, Sultan, invades India, ii. 167
Mahrattas, ii. 168, 178;
as British allies, 202
Maillebois, Marshal, ii. 85
Maissin, French commander in India, ii. 408
Malines, i. 473
Mansfeld, Count Ernest, i. 174
Maphuze Khan (son of Nabob of Carnatic, 1746), ii. 182
Mardyck, captured by Turenne, i. 268
Margaret of Anjou, i. 73
Maria Theresa, ii. 80, 105, 156
Marines, first established, i. 387, 484, 511;
placed under Lord High Admiral, 581;
augmented in 1739, ii. 58;
and in 1757, 301
Marischal, Lord, ii. 9
Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of, i. 296:--
1672, Colonel of the Second Foot, i. 297
1688, swears fealty to James, i. 306
1690, 334;
capture of Cork and Kinsale, 350;
dismissed by William III., 359
1694, The Brest scandal, 377
1702, Captain-General, 402;
operations on the Meuse, 403-408
1703, campaign spoilt by Dutch, 409-414;
Marlborough and Eugene, 416
1704, march to Bonn, 419;
outwits the French, 420;
the Schellenberg, 423;
Donauwörth, 427;
junction with Eugene, 430;
decides to give battle, 432;
advance on Blenheim, 433;
the battle, 434-446
1705, faithlessness of his allies, 451;
passage of the Dyle, 455;
campaign again ruined by Dutch, 457
1706, preparations for campaign, 464-466;
Ramillies, 467-473;
capture of Menin and Dendermond, 474
1707, a tame campaign, 491
1708, concentrates at Hal, 493;
marches after French, 494;
attack of fever, 495;
Oudenarde, 497-500;
encamps on the Lys, 502;
plan of invading France, 503;
siege of Lille, 503;
Wynendale, 509;
invests Ghent, 510;
capture of Minorca due to him, 511
1709, beginning of opposition to him at home, 512;
accused of prolonging war, 513;
march on Tournay, 513;
dupes Villars, 515;
delayed by Dutch, 517;
Malplaquet, 519-526
1710, asks to be made permanent Commander-in-Chief, 536;
abuse of in England, 538;
threatens to resign, 539
1711, his last campaign, 540;
brilliancy of his tactics, 543;
penetrates French lines, 547;
charged with embezzlement and dismissed, 549;
Dutch deputies really responsible, 553;
his patience, 493;
and forethought, 589;
compared with Napoleon, 590;
and Wellington, 572;
his reforms, 557, 575;
upholds purchase, 579;
Master-General of Ordnance, 584;
a great artillerist, 587;
his character and work, 587-591;
return to England, ii. 4;
induced to resume his appointments, 5;
his death, 10;
his funeral, 11-13
Marlborough, Charles Churchill, 2nd Duke of, ii. 288, 295, 340
Marlborough, Duchess of, ii. 536, 538
Maroons, ii. 40
Marsin, General, i. 418, 429, 432
Martin, François, ii. 174
Martinique, taken from French, ii. 541
Mary, Queen, army legislation under, i. 125;
her kindness to soldiers, 329
Masham, Mrs., i. 536
Massachusetts, ii. 244, 252, 257, 441
Masulipatam, taken by French, ii. 169;
stormed by Forde, ii. 449
Maubeuge, i. 516
Maurice of Nassau, i. 3, 152, 153;
captures Oudenberg, 160;
Nieuport, 161, 165;
famous Englishmen in his army, 169;
a great engineer, 184; ii. 249
Maurice, Prince (brother of Rupert), i. 169, 202
Mauritius, French colonisation of, ii. 176
Mauvillon, opinion of British troops quoted, ii. 517, 588
Maximilian I., i. 85-92
Maxwell, Colonel, commands grenadiers at Warburg, ii. 512
Mazarin, Cardinal, i. 266
Men-at-Arms, i. 25, 37, 41;
decay of, 117, 125
Mendoza, i. 139
Menin, i. 513
Middleton, Earl of, ii. 252
Military Hospitals, Kilmainham, i. 328;
Chelsea, 329, 579
Military music, band copied from Saracens, i. 14;
the drum, 14;
trumpets, 14, 30;
trumpet calls, 105;
drum-beat of the landsknechts, 91;
bands encouraged by Henry VIII., 124;
duties of trumpeters and drummers, 153;
drum calls, 214;
Lillibulero, 305;
black drummers in India, ii. 450;
regimental bands in 18th century, 583
Military pamphlets, i. 136-139, 214
Military punishments, i. 250;
the wooden horse, 281;
flogging with the cat, ii. 32-34;
picketting, 569
Militia, developed from fyrd, i. 12, 123;
decay of under Stuarts, 194;
reorganised under Charles II., 292;
in colonies, ii. 39;
Militia Acts, 288, 299, 301;
increased under George III., 521
Milton, John, affected by military spirit of his time, i. 279
Minorca, taken by English, i. 511;
garrison at, 561;
question of governing, ii. 42;
loss of, 291
Miosson River, i. 40
Mitchelburne, Colonel, i. 410
Modyford, Colonel Thomas, i. 258
Moguls, Indian invasion of in 1193, ii. 167
Mohammed Ali (Nabob of Carnatic, 1752), ii. 196, 198, 215, 218
Molesworth, Captain, A.D.C. to Marlborough, i. 470
Monckton, Colonel, ii. 270, 282, 321, 360, 499;
commands troops in West Indies, 539, 570
Monk, George, Duke of Albemarle, volunteer in Low Countries, i. 169;
in Parliamentary Army, 211, 239;
as a sailor, 249;
his reduction of the Highlands, 252;
genius in mountain warfare, 254;
his policy after Cromwell's death, 275;
brings back Charles II., 277;
his scheme for disbandment of army, 290;
first Commander-in-Chief after Restoration, 308;
death, 309, 325
Monmouth, James, Duke of, serves under Turenne, i. 296;
insurrection of, 299; ii. 38
Monro, Colonel, ii. 306
Mons, ii. 121, 150
Monstrelet, i. 24, 63
Montcalm, Marquis of, ii. 297, 305, 327
Montecuculi, ii. 279
Montjuich, i. 460
Montrose, Marquis of, victory at Auldearn, i. 223;
other successes, 228
Moore, Commodore, ii. 347
Mordaunt, Lord, i. 425
Mordaunt, Sir Henry, ii. 307
Moreton, Colonel, ii. 58
Morgan, Sir Thomas, i. 141, 252, 267, 274, 353
Morpeth, Lord, ii. 20
Morse, Mr., ii. 180
Mortiz, Ali (Nabob of Carnatic, 1742), ii. 176, 179, 223
Mothe, Count de la, i. 412
Munden, Colonel, i. 425; ii. 11
Munro, Hector, i. 176
Munro, Robert, i. 174, 193, 304
Murray, Lord George, ii. 127, 133
Murray, James, Brigadier, under Wolf, ii. 361;
at Quebec, 385, 390;
defeated at Sainte Foy, 394;
advance on Montreal, 397;
vote of thanks to, 498, 570
Murzapha Jung (Viceroy of Deccan, 1743), ii. 193, 197
Musket. _See_ Arms and Armour
Mutiny Acts, first Act, i. 335;
under William III., 348;
not renewed in 1699, 387;
the Act of 1701, 400;
of 1703, 563, 570; ii. 5, 18;
inns only quarter allowed under, 22;
opposition to, 261;
new clause added to in 1741, 562
Nantes, Edict of, i. 307
Nasir Jung (claimant to Deccan, 1748), ii. 193, 195
Nassau, Prince of, i. 402
Natzmar, General, commands Prussian cavalry at Oudenarde, i. 499
Nebel, River, i. 433
Neipperg, Marshal, ii. 90, 99
Nell Gwynne founds Chelsea Hospital, i. 329
New Jersey, ii. 257
New Model, i. 3, 208, 214-223;
effects of first felt at Naseby, 227;
soldiers rebel against disbandment of, 232-235;
its work, 277
New Plymouth, ii. 243
New York, British troops in, i. 560; ii. 41, 245, 257
Newcastle, Duke of, ii. 21, 60;
letters to, 62;
responsible for Spanish Main disaster, 78, 136, 259, 268, 286;
indignation against, ii. 298;
resignation of, 299
Niagara, expedition against, ii. 284
Nicolls, Colonel, ii. 245
Nimeguen, i. 401
Nizam Ali, ii. 457
Nizam-ul-Mulk (Viceroy of the Deccan), ii. 176, 193
Noailles, Marshal, ii. 89;
commands French at Dettingen, 93
Norfolk, Duke of, Yorkist leader, i. 74
Normandy, lost to English, i. 70
Norris, Sir John, his volunteers, i. 143;
serves under Leicester, 147, 151
North America, our colonies in, ii. 254;
our struggle with France for:--
before Aix-la-Chapelle, 246-260;
after Aix-la-Chapelle, 263-288;
from 1756, 296 _et seq_;
reverts to British, 306;
Pitt's organisation of war in, 314;
expedition against Quebec, 329;
conquest of Canada, 360-405
North, Lord, i. 148
Nova Scotia, garrisons at, ii. 42, 243, 263
Noyelles, Count of, i. 453
Oberglau, i. 433
Ogle, Admiral, Sir Chaloner, ii. 64
Ogle, Sir John, i. 192
Okey, Colonel John, i. 256
Opdam, General, i. 404, 413
Orange, Prince of, i. 520;
at Malplaquet, 522, 526
Ordnance, Office of, i. 111, 309, 328;
Marlborough, Master-General of, 584, ii. 44, 563, 571
Orkney, Lord, i. 472, 515, 519, ii. 53
Ormonde, Duke of, i. 407;
appointed Commander-in-Chief in Marlborough's place, 549, 572,
ii. 8, 13
Osborne, Admiral, i. 315
Ostend, siege of, i. 165;
Marlborough's base (1708), 507;
Cumberland's (1745), ii. 123
Oswego, ii. 285, 297
Ottomond, tomb of, i. 470
Overkirk, General, i. 412, 419, 451;
besieges Ostend, 474;
at Oudenarde, 560
Overton, Colonel, Parliamentary leader, i. 256
Pappenheim, General, i. 187
Paradis, Lieutenant, ii. 183, 188, 190
Parke, Colonel, A.D.C. to Marlborough, i. 442, 552
Parliament and the Army:--
1640-1660, Commons levy soldiers, i. 199;
the Parliamentary army during Civil War, 201;
the New Model, 208-222;
crippling influence of Parliament on army, 223;
tries to disband it, 230;
victory of army over Rump, 250;
return of Rump after Cromwell's death, 274
1660-1701, Unwillingness of Parliament to recognise army,
i. 310-313;
attitude of under William III., 381-393
1702-1713, Parliament's attitude to Marlborough personally,
i. 408, 539, 549;
votes money for the wars, 450, 514;
recruiting Acts, 563;
impatience over increased expenditure, 580
1714-1739, attempts to disband army after Utrecht, ii. 3;
encroachments on war administration, 18-21;
meanness to soldiers, 45
1755-1763, adds to establishment, ii. 288, 299, 520;
Pitt's influence on Commons, 358;
objection of to Mutiny Act, 562;
efforts to establish short service, 572
Partab Singh (Rajah of Tanjore, 1749), ii. 195
Partisan. _See_ Arms and Armour
Passe-Volant, the, i. 319
Paston Letters, i. 73
Pauncenars, i. 27
Pay, William Rufus first misappropriates, i. 9;
contracts under Edward II. and III., 21;
pay of all ranks in 1346, 30, 31;
of archers, 54;
of gunners, 66;
of artillery, 77;
embezzlement by officers, 70, 86, 110, 124, 128, 157, 319, 337, 346;
stoppages of, 110;
pay raised under Mary, 126;
troops defrauded by Elizabeth, 130;
attempts at reform in, 153;
pay of privates under Elizabeth, 156;
coat and conduct money, 197;
unwillingness of Parliament to pay men, 230;
under Cromwell, 284;
poundage licence, 311;
under Charles II., 314-321;
peculations at pay office, 329;
corruptness of officials, 348;
arrears of under William III., 381-385;
petitions to Parliament on, 389;
embezzlement of Paymaster-General, 409;
Controllers of Accounts appointed, 410;
Marlborough's reforms in, 571;
frauds of regimental agents, 576;
regimental debts, 577;
of colonial troops in 18th century, 561;
George I. tries to stop illegal deductions, ii. 30;
mutinies owing to stoppages, 579;
table of pay, 1739-1763, 580;
of artillery, 587
Paymaster-General, i. 310, 408
Pedro the Cruel, i. 44
Pelham, Henry, ii. 262, 268
Pelham, Sir William, i. 149
Peninsular War, i. 447-456, 458-464
Penn, William, i. 260; ii. 57, 295
Pennsylvania, apathy of colonists in, ii. 270
Pepperrell, Sir William, ii. 258, 269
Pepys, Samuel, i. 312
Perth, James Drummond, Duke of, ii. 127
Pescayra, Marquis of, i. 97;
in command of Spaniards at Zutphen, 149, 179, 184
Peterborough, Earl of, character, i. 459;
Barcelona, 462;
methods of warfare, 477, 480, 488;
opens road to Madrid, 482;
different opinions of, 489
Petition of Rights, i. 198
Petronel. _See_ Arms and Armour
Peyton, Commodore, ii. 180
Philip of Anjou, i. 397, 447, 481;
King of Spain, 483, 531
Phipps, Sir William, ii. 252
Pigot, Mr., ii. 199
Pike. _See_ Arms and Armour
Pioneers, i. 219
Pistol. _See_ Arms and Armour
Pitt, Mr. Thomas, advocates short service, ii. 573
Pitt, William. _See_ Chatham
Placentia, troops in, ii. 44
Plasencia, i. 482
Pocock, Admiral, ii. 429;
defeats French, 434;
judgment of, 456, 541
Polier, Major, ii. 431
Pompadour, Madame de, i. 298, 339
Pondicherry, ii. 173;
surrender of to English, 473
Port l'Orient, expedition to, ii. 156
Porteous, Captain, ii. 31
Portland, Duke of, i. 390
Portugal, King of, joins Grand Alliance, i. 415
Portuguese first to gain a footing in India, ii. 168
Powder. _See_ Arms and Armour
Prideaux, Brigadier, ii. 369
Pulteney, William, ii. 5, 17
Purchase, i. 578; ii. 30
Quebec, ii. 242;
Wolfe's expedition, against, 359, 388
Queen's shilling, origin of, i. 9
Quesnoi, i. 548
Raja Sahib (Nabob, 1752), ii. 201, 203, 216
Rajahmundy captured by British, ii. 445
Ranelagh, Lord, ii. 469
Recruits, origin of Queen's shilling, i. 9;
fictitious recruits, 86;
Spanish system of recruits, 100;
English press-gangs, 145;
under Charles I., 194;
Cromwell's, 203;
kidnapping resorted to, 382;
discouragement to, 560;
abuses of recruiting, 565;
Recruiting Acts, 564, 566;
short service, 567;
maladministration of recruiting under Harley, 568;
mere boys enlisted, 572;
faggots, 573;
expense of obtaining, 574;
Secretary-at-War enforces recruiting, 583;
character of under George I., ii. 32;
fraudulent enlistment, 34;
abundance of in 1739, 57;
ill-faith of authorities to, 290;
Pitt's endeavours to obtain, 476;
Recruiting Acts, 1743, 1759, 573-579
Redoubt d'Eu, the, at Fontenoy, i. 113
Regiment, name comes into use, ii. 136
Regiments:--
Cavalry--
First Life Guards, i. 291, 324, 375; ii. 95
Second Life Guards, i. 291, 321
Royal Horse Guards (Blues), i. 291, 321, 388; ii. 95 (Dettingen),
119 (Fontenoy), 344, 511 (Warburg)
First Dragoon Guards (King's), i. 300, 388, 511, 525; ii. 22, 95
(Dettingen), 349, 501, 511 (Warburg), 527, 555
Second Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays or Bays), i. 300, 344, 447,
458, 482, 487 (Almanza), 530; ii. 7, 501, 511 (Warburg), 527
Third Dragoon Guards, i. 300, 388, 442, 471, 475, 511, 525;
ii. 340, 501, 511 (Warburg)
Fourth Dragoon Guards, i. 300, 388
Fifth Dragoon Guards, i. 300, 388, 455, 511, 525
Sixth Dragoon Guards (Carbiniers), i. 300, 388, 442, 471, 475,
511, 525; ii. 501, 511 (Warburg)
Seventh Dragoon Guards, i. 337, 388, 422, 511 (Oudenarde), 525;
ii. 95 (Dettingen), 511 (Warburg), 527
First Dragoons (Royals), i. 292, 298, 306, 375, 388, 417, 447,
477, 530; ii. 95 (Dettingen), 119 (Fontenoy), 501, 509, 514,
527, 555
Second Dragoons (Greys), i. 323, 388, 426, 441, 475, 511
(Oudenarde), 525 (Malplaquet), 563; ii. 7, 95, 133, 153, 161,
346, 511 (Warburg), 527
Third Dragoons (now Hussars), i. 375, 388, 487, 484, 503; ii. 7,
98 (Dettingen), 133
Fourth Dragoons (now Hussars), i. 366, 375, 388, 484, 487, 503;
ii. 7, 95, 162 (Lauffeld)
Fifth Dragoons (now Lancers), i. 342, 511 (Oudenarde), 563
Sixth Dragoons (Inniskillings), i. 342, 375, 563; ii. 7, 95
(Dettingen), 153, 162 (Lauffeld), 341, 511 (Warburg), 514, 521
Seventh Dragoons (now Hussars), i. 376, 388, 563; ii. 4, 7, 95,
153, 162 (Lauffeld), 501, 509, 527
Eighth Dragoons (now Hussars), i. 368, 388, 479, 530, 563, 575;
ii. 4, 133
Ninth Dragoons (now Lancers), ii. 6, 7, 140
Tenth Dragoons (now Hussars), ii. 6, 340, 511 (Warburg), 527
Eleventh Dragoons (now Hussars), ii. 6, 501, 511 (Warburg), 527
Twelfth Dragoons (now Lancers), ii. 6
Thirteenth Dragoons (now Hussars), ii. 6, 128, 140
Fourteenth Dragoons (now Hussars), ii. 6, 128, 140, 261
Fifteenth Light Dragoons (now Hussars), ii. 476, 501, 504
(Emsdorff), 514
Sixteenth Light Dragoons (now Lancers), ii. 500, 546
Seventeenth Light Dragoons (now Lancers), ii. 500
Royal Artillery, ii. 49, 188, 236, 300, 321
_Foot Guards_--
Grenadiers (First), i. 291, 373, 388, 437 (Blenheim), 427, 443,
449, 459, 511 (Oudenarde), 525; ii. 113 (Fontenoy), 162
(Lauffeld), 251
Coldstream, i. 3, 240;
origin of name, 276, 291, 307, 324, 374 (Landen), 388, 449, 459,
511 (Oudenarde), 525 (Malplaquet); ii. 113 (Fontenoy), 251
Scots Guards, i. 302, 373, 388, 530, 534, 563; ii. 115 (Fontenoy),
556
_Infantry_--
First Foot (Royals), origin, i. 63, 189, 262, 302, 335, 364
(Steenkirk), 371-376 (Landen), 388, 399, 453, 459, 469, 499,
511, 514, 525, 556, 563; ii. 75, 114 (Fontenoy), 125, 140, 156,
300, 316, 396, 424, 427
Second Foot (Queen's), i. 292, 327, 342, 417, 447, 458, 486
Third Foot (Buffs), i. 295, 297, 302, 306 (Steenkirk), 371, 453,
471, 499, 511, 514, 521, 525 (Malplaquet); ii. 95 (Dettingen),
114 (Fontenoy), 140, 307, 356, 521, 546
Fourth Foot, i. 372, 449; ii. 125, 140, 292, 354, 541
Fifth Foot, i. 300, 388, 529; ii. 307, 340, 501, 527, 549
(Wilhelmsthal)
Sixth Foot, i. 300, 367, 388, 459, 487 (Almanza), 511 (Oudenarde),
530; ii. 4, 75, 125, 143
Seventh Foot (Fusiliers), i. 300, 375, 388; ii. 293, 527
Eighth Foot, i. 300, 388, 390, 475, 496 (Oudenarde), 511, 514, 525;
ii. 95 (Dettingen), 114 (Fontenoy), 153, 307, 340, 501, 521
Ninth Foot, i. 300, 342, 388, 399, 417, 447, 458, 487 (Almanza)
Tenth Foot, i. 300, 366, 369, 388, 437 (Blenheim), 453, 469, 475,
511, 514, 525
Eleventh Foot, i. 300, 388, 417, 447, 487, 541; ii. 95 (Dettingen),
114 (Fontenoy), 341, 486 (Minden), 501, 524
Twelfth Foot, i. 300, 303, 388, 398, 503; ii. 42, 95 (Dettingen),
112 (Fontenoy), 491 (Minden)
Thirteenth Foot, i. 300, 339, 388, 399, 417, 447, 449, 459, 477,
529; ii. 95 (Dettingen), 112 (Fontenoy), 133
Fourteenth Foot, i. 300, 388; ii. 4
Fifteenth Foot, i. 300, 388, 399, 442, 511, 514; ii. 60, 69, 71
(Carthagena), 75, 156, 307, 316, 361, 374, 541
Sixteenth Foot, i. 305, 388, 399, 442, 504, 511, 514, 521, 525;
ii. 7
Seventeenth Foot, i. 305, 342, 388, 399, 447, 458, 487; ii. 300,
316, 541
Eighteenth Foot (Royal Irish), i. 336, 379 (Namur), 388, 399, 469,
475, 496, 504, 511 (Oudenarde), 523 (Malplaquet), 563
Nineteenth Foot, i. 388, 492, 525; ii. 114 (Fontenoy), 153, 521
Twentieth Foot, i. 337, 388, 484, 529; ii. 95 (Dettingen), 114
(Fontenoy), 307, 340, 359, 486, 491 (Minden), 524, 527
Twenty-First Foot (Scots Fusiliers), i. 364 (Steenkirk), 371, 388,
437 (Blenheim), 442, 471, 504, 511, 525, 563; ii. 7, 25, 107,
115 (Fontenoy), 161 (Lauffeld)
Twenty-Second Foot, i. 337, 388, 398; ii. 4, 42, 304, 316, 361
Twenty-Third Foot (Royal Welsh Fusiliers), i. 337, 388, 399, 424,
427, 437 (Blenheim), 443, 496 (Oudenarde), 504, 511, 525;
ii. 7, 95 (Dettingen), 114 (Fontenoy), 161 (Lauffeld), 292,
340, 491 (Minden), 514, 528, 541
Twenty-Fourth Foot, i. 337, 388, 437 (Blenheim), 399, 469, 509,
511, 525; ii. 60, 69, 75, 292, 307, 340, 501, 527
Twenty-Fifth Foot, i. 339, 363, 371, 388, 563; ii. 7, 114
(Fontenoy), 296, 307, 340, 491 (Minden), 514, 527
Twenty-Sixth Foot (Cameronians), i. 340, 363, 371, 388, 442, 511,
525, 563
Twenty-Seventh (Enniskillens), i. 342, 388, 398, 424, 563; ii. 7,
42, 75, 125, 133, 300, 325, 541
Twenty-Eighth Foot, i. 400, 487; ii. 4, 114 (Fontenoy), 156, 300,
316, 361, 374 (Quebec), 541, 575
Twenty-Ninth Foot, i. 400, 469, 484, 503; ii. 4, 114, 259
Thirtieth Foot, i. 400, 450, 479; ii. 4, 42, 156, 259, 307, 340,
521
Thirty-First Foot, i. 400, 448; ii. 95 (Dettingen), 114 (Fontenoy)
Thirty-Second Foot, i. 400, 448; ii. 4, 95 (Dettingen), 114
(Fontenoy)
Thirty-Third Foot, i. 400, 447, 459, 487 (Almanza), 530; ii. 4,
95 (Dettingen), 153, 340, 501, 514
Thirty-Fourth Foot, i. 400, 459, 479, 481 (Barcelona); ii. 4, 60,
64, 69, 114 (Fontenoy), 133, 340, 521, 541
Thirty-Fifth Foot, i. 398, 459, 477, 487; ii. 306, 316, 361, 374,
541
Thirty-Sixth Foot, i. 398, 459, 487; ii. 7, 60, 64, 69, 340, 521
Thirty-Seventh Foot, i. 400, 469, 496 (Oudenarde), 511, 514, 525,
541; ii. 95 (Dettingen), 341, 327, 491 (Minden)
Thirty-Eighth Foot, ii. 356, 538, 541, 565
Thirty-Ninth Foot, i. 400, 529; ii. 156, 236, 419
Fortieth Foot, ii. 42, 316, 541
Forty-First Foot, ii. 6
Forty-Second Highlanders (Black Watch), ii. 50, 112 (Fontenoy),
156, 296, 325, 354, 541
Forty-Third Foot, ii. 83, 153, 155 (Roucoux), 300, 361, 379
(Quebec), 541
Forty-Fourth Foot, ii. 83, 125, 268, 273, 297, 325
Forty-Fifth Foot, ii. 43, 83, 259, 316
Forty-Sixth Foot, ii. 83, 125, 300, 325
Forty-Seventh Foot, ii. 83, 125, 316, 361, 374 (Quebec)
Forty-Eighth Foot, ii. 83, 140, 268, 273, 277, 316, 361, 541
Forty-Ninth Foot, ii. 43, 260, 300
Fiftieth Foot, ii. 289, 307, 501, 527
Fifty-First Foot, ii. 259, 357, 341, 491 (Minden), 501, 514, 521
Fifty-Second Foot, ii. 259
Fifty-Third Foot, ii. 289, 293
Fifty-Fourth Foot, ii. 289, 293
Fifty-Fifth Foot, ii. 289, 300, 325
Fifty-Sixth Foot, ii. 219, 541
Fifty-Seventh Foot, ii. 289, 293
Fifty-Eighth Foot, ii. 289, 316, 361, 374, 543
Fifty-Ninth Foot, ii. 289
Sixtieth Foot, ii. 289, 316, 325, 334, 361, 374, 578, 591
Sixty-First Foot, ii. 299, 356
Sixty-Second Foot, ii. 299, 384, 385
Sixty-Third Foot, ii. 299, 351, 356
Sixty-Fourth Foot, ii. 300, 356
Sixty-Fifth Foot, ii. 300, 356, 541
Sixty-Sixth Foot, ii. 300, 346
Sixty-Seventh Foot, ii. 300, 521, 546
Sixty-Eighth Foot, ii. 300
Sixty-Ninth Foot, ii. 300, 385, 521, 541
Seventieth Foot, ii. 300
_Regiments since Disbanded._--
72nd (Richmond's), ii. 541
75th (Boscawen's), ii. 321
80th (Gage's), ii. 324
83rd (Sebright's), ii. 358
84th (Coote's) ii. 358
85th (Crawford's), ii. 500, 521
86th (Worge's), ii. 500
87th (Keith's Highlanders), ii. 500
88th (Campbell's), ii. 500
89th (Morris's), ii. 472, 500
90th (Morgan's) ii. 500
91st (Blayney's), ii. 500
92nd (Gore's) ii. 500
93rd (Bagshawe's), ii. 500
94th (Vaughan's), ii. 500, 521, 538
95th (Burton's), ii. 520
96th (Monson's), ii. 520
97th (James Stuart's), ii. 520, 521
98th (Gray's), ii. 520, 521
99th (Byng's), ii. 520
100th (Colin Campbell's), ii. 520
101st (Johnston's), ii. 443, 536
102nd (Wedderburn's), ii. 443, 536
103rd (Oswald's), ii. 537
104th (Tonyn's), ii. 537
105th (Graeme's), ii. 537
106th (Barré's), ii. 537
107th (Beauclerk's), ii. 537
108th (Macdougall's), ii. 537
109th (Nairn's), ii. 537
110th (Deakin's), ii. 537
111th (Markham's), ii. 537
112th (Hamilton's), ii. 537
113th (M'Lean's), ii. 537
114th (Crawford's), ii. 537
115th (Ogle's), ii. 537
_Regiments not numbered but known by Colonels' Names_--
Aberdour's (Light Dragoons), ii. 500
Argyll's (foot), i. 369
Barrymore's (foot). _See_ Pearce's dragoons
Bolton's (foot), i. 337
Bowles's (dragoons), i. 487, 530; ii. 5
Bradshaw's (foot), i. 464
Brazier's (foot), i. 492
Bretton's (foot), i. 450, 487
Brudenell's (foot), i. 398, 458
Caldwell's (light dragoons), ii. 501
Carles's (foot), i. 492
Castletown's (foot), i. 369
Caulfield's (foot), i. 459, 503
Churchill's (dragoons), ii. 6
Clayton's (foot), i. 541
Collier's (foot), i. 334, 388
Cutts's (foot), i. 363, 367
Dalzell's (foot), i. 530, 536
De Grangue's (foot), ii. 82
Delaune's (foot), i. 492
Deloraine's (foot), i. 417
Dormer's (foot), i. 503, 530; ii. 6
Draper's (foot), ii. 314, 469
Drogheda's (light dragoons), ii. 501
Dubourgay's (foot), ii. 6
Dungannon's (foot), i. 417
Elliot's (foot), i. 411, 459
Erle's (dragoons), i. 417
Evans's (foot), i. 411, 475, 496, 514, 525
Fenwick's (foot), i. 239
Fitzpatrick's (foot), i. 334, 364
Fraser's (foot), ii. 300, 316
Goff's (foot), i. 249
Gore's (foot), i. 530; ii. 5
Gorges's (foot), i. 411, 459
Granby's (light dragoons), ii. 501
Grant's (foot), ii. 7
Hamilton's (foot), i. 388, 503
Hazelrigg's (foot), i. 239
Hill's (foot), i. 484
Honeywood's (horse), ii. 5
Hotham's (foot), i. 450; ii. 6
Ikerryn's (foot), i. 417
Inchiquin's (foot), i. 417
Ingoldsby's (foot), i. 337
Johnson's (foot), i. 503
Jones's (foot), i. 492
Kane's (foot), i. 541
Kerr's (foot), i. 464, 484, 487
Kingston's (foot), i. 337
Kingston's (later Cumberland's) light dragoons, ii. 162
Lauder's (foot), i. 363
Leigh's (foot), i. 390
Lepell's (foot), i. 450
Lisburn's (foot), i. 337
Lovelace's (foot), i. 464
Lucas's (foot), ii. 6
Macartney's (foot), i. 484, 487
Macclesfield's (horse), i. 368, 388
Mackay's (foot), i. 363, 371
Mohun's (foot), i. 400
Molesworth's (dragoons), ii. 6
Moore's (foot), i. 503
Montgomery's (foot), ii. 300, 400
Mordaunt's (foot), i. 400
Mountjoy's (foot), i. 398, 459, 477, 487
Munden's (dragoons), i. 530; ii. 5
Nassau's (dragoons), i. 530
Newton's (foot), ii. 6
Orrery's (foot), i. 417, 492, 496, 525
Paston's (foot), i. 417, 529
Pearce's (dragoons), i. 411, 480, 487
Pepperrell's (foot), ii. 284, 296
Peterborough's (dragoons), i. 464, 487
Pocock's (foot), ii. 6
Prendergast's (foot), i. 514
Price's (foot), i. 464
Rich's (foot), ii. 6
Rochford's (dragoons), i. 530
Rooke's (foot), i. 417
Roscommon's (foot), i. 337
Shannon's (foot), i. 400
Shirley's (foot), ii. 296
Slane's (foot), i. 492
Soames's (foot), i. 450
Stanhope's (foot), ii. 6
Stanwix's (foot), i. 464, 529; ii. 6
Strathnaver's (foot), i. 388
Stringer's (foot), i. 400
Sutherland's (foot), ii. 500
Sybourg's (foot) i. 464
Temple's (foot), i. 400, 514, 521
Townsend's (foot), i. 464, 503
Tunbridge's (foot), i. 464
Tyrell's (foot), ii. 6
Wolfe's (foot), ii. 58, 75
Wynne's (foot), i. 450, 503; ii. 5
Reiters, i. 102, 138;
superseded by cuirassiers, 183
Renaissance, the, and the art of war, i. 106
Reynolds, John, i. 255;
commands Cromwell's force in French army, 267;
lost on Goodwin Sands, 269
Rhode Island, ii. 250
Rich, Barnaby, i. 138
Richard I., army under, i. 13
Richard II., i. 50, 52
Richards, Colonel John, i. 342, 528
Richelieu, Duke of, ii. 292
Richmond, Duke of, ii. 136
Riedesel, Colonel, ii. 549
Ripon, Treaty of, i. 198
Robinson, Colonel, ii. 58
Robinson, Sir T. (Secretary of State 1754), ii. 268
Rochelle, expedition to, i. 193
Rodney, Captain George, R.N., ii. 316
Rollo, Lord, ii. 321, 397, 536
Ronçevalles, Pass of, i. 45
Rooke, Admiral Sir George, i. 407, 448
Roquemaure, French officer in Canada, ii. 398
Roses, Wars of the, i. 5;
changes in warfare during, 76
Ross, Christian (the female dragoon), i. 572
Ross, Ensign David, i. 176
Rottmeister, i. 181
Row, Brigadier, at Blenheim, i. 437
Rumsdorf. _See_ Landen
Rupert, Prince, i. 169, 199;
at Edgehill, 200;
at Marston Moor, 205;
influence on cavalry, 215;
at Naseby, 225, 228
Rushworth, John, i. 311
Russell, Sir William, i. 148
Russia, Treaty of George the Second with, ii. 291
Ruvigny. _See_ Galway
Ryswick, Peace of, i. 379, 399, 563; ii. 181, 253
Sabine, Brigadier, at Oudenarde, i. 496-498
Sackville, Lord George, ii. 290, 307, 341, 345, 481;
at Minden, 488-493;
dismissed from army, 496
St. Clair, General, ii. 156
St. Germain, Count of, ii. 502
St. Ghislain, i. 515; ii. 150
St. John, Henry (Bolingbroke), i. 416, 551, 582, 538, 571, 591;
tampers with army after Utrecht, ii. 3, 255
St. Helena, ii. 171, 188
St. Kitts, ii. 62
St. Lazare, ii. 67
St. Lucia, ii. 347
St. Pierre, ii. 349
St. Ruth, General, i. 349
St. Thomé, ii. 194
Salabat Jung (Viceroy of Deccan 1759), ii. 197, 408, 448, 457
Salières, Marquis of, ii. 160
Samiaveram, ii. 211
Sandford, Brigadier, i. 527
Sauhojee (Ruler of Tanjore 1749) ii. 192
Sankey, Brigadier, i. 530
Santiago di Cuba, British attack on, ii. 74-79
Saunders, Admiral, ii. 385, 499
Saunders, Mr., Governor of Madras, ii. 202, 405
Saxe, Maurice, Maréchal de, i. 503; ii. 105, 106;
at Fontenoy, 110-121, 150;
action at Roucoux, 153;
notable march from Louvain, 158;
Lauffeld, 159-163
Schellenberg, the, Marlborough's march on, i. 423
Schomberg, Mainhard, Duke of, i. 447
Schomberg, Marshal, i. 268;
Colonel of Royal Scots, 334, 338;
commands expedition to Ireland, 343;
his complaints of administration, 345;
Irish campaign of 1690, 348;
killed at the Boyne, 349, 381, 573
Schulemberg, General, at Malplaquet, i. 519
Schwartz, Martin, i. 77
Scots, in French army, i. 65, 67, 70;
defeated at Flodden, 117;
in Dutch army, 43, 160, 295;
in Danish army, 173;
bravery of, 176, 186;
under Gustavus Adolphus, 179;
capture of Rügenwalde, 185;
heavy losses at Nuremberg, 189;
rebellion of 1639, 194;
allies of Parliament, 204;
fight for Charles, 234;
defeated at Dunbar, 244;
and Worcester, 247;
army establishment of 1693, 385;
amalgamated with English at Union, 580
Scott, Major, ii. 316
Seaforth, Lord, ii. 9
Secretary-at-War. _See_ War Office
Secretary of State, responsibility of, for army, ii. 21
Sedgwicke, Major, i. 264; ii. 243
Segur, Count of, ii. 160
Sepoy Army, ii. 177
Sergeants, origin of, i. 24, 94
Seringham, ii. 210
Sevajee (Mahratta leader), ii. 168
Seven Years' War, i. 326; ii. 31, 80 _et seq._
(_See also_ French.)
Sexby, i. 256
Seymour, Edward, i. 301
Shahab-ud-Din (1023), ii. 167
Shah Jehan (Mogul Emperor), ii. 168, 170
Shakespeare, as historian of army, i. 140
Shales, Commissary, corruptness of, i. 348
Shell. _See_ Arms and Armour.
Shield. _See_ Arms and Armour
Shipman, Sir Abraham, ii. 171
Shippen, "Downright," ii. 15, 58
Shirley, William (Governor of Massachusetts 1744), ii. 255, 269, 282,
285
Short Service, first tried in India, i. 566; ii. 172, 572
Shrewsbury, Earl of, i. 71
Shrimpton, General, i. 487; ii. 296
Sidney, Sir Philip, i. 147
Skelton, Brigadier, at Fontenoy, ii. 119
Skippon, Philip, i. 168;
Parliamentary Chief of Staff, 212
Slingsby, Sir Charles, i. 169
Smith, Captain Joseph, ii. 237, 427, 435
Smyth, Sir John, defends bows and arrows, i. 138
Soldier, origin of word, i. 8
Sollerets. _See_ Arms and Armour
Solmes, Count, i. 364;
killed at Landen, 376
Somers, Lord, pleads for standing army, i. 384, 536
Soubise, Prince of, ii. 480, 524;
feebleness of, 530, 547, 553
Southwell, Sir Robert, i. 349
Spaar (Dutch General), i. 413
Spain, medieval army of, i. 96;
campaigns of Allies in, 407, 447, 459, 476, 528;
reasons of success of Bourbons in, 535
Spaniards, in Low Countries, i. 140;
opposed to French and English under Turenne, 270;
defeated at Dunkirk, 273
Spanish Succession, War of, i. 397-480;
authorities on, 553
Spear. _See_ Arms and Armour
Spörcke, General von, ii. 491, 504, 509;
victory at Langensalza, 523, 530, 549
Spottiswoode (Governor of Virginia), ii. 59
Spynie, Lord, i. 178
Stair, John, Earl of, i. 552; ii. 53, 83;
a clever diplomatist, 85;
hampered by Home Government, 88;
not responsible for our position before Dettingen, 90-92, 102;
his force badly equipped, 563;
his plan for recruiting, 576
Standish, Miles, ii. 249
Stanhope, General James, i. 460;
captures Minorca, 511, 529, 532-534; ii. 4
Stanley, Edward, daring courage at Zutphen, i. 150
Stanley, Sir William, i. 147
Staremberg, General, commands in Peninsula, i. 511;
defeats Spanish, 530
Statute of Winchester, i. 4, 16-23, 112, 125, 191, 199, 292
Stevens, Commodore, ii. 429
Stephen, King, army under, i. 11
Stollhofen, lines of, i. 418, 421
Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, i. 199; ii. 19
Strozzi, Filippo, i. 101
Strozzi, Piero, i. 102
Sufder Ali (son of Nabob of Carnatic 1732), ii. 176, 179
Surajah Dowlah (ruler of Bengal 1756), ii. 409;
Plassey, 416-425
Surat, first French factory in India, ii. 173
Surrey, Thomas, Earl of, at Flodden, i. 115
Swabian infantry, i. 85-92
Swedes, in Royalist army, i. 206
Swiss, medieval army of, i. 83-85
Sword. _See_ Arms and Armour
Symonds, Ensign, ii. 206
Taisnières, Forest of, i. 518
Talbot, John, i. 66, 71
Tallard, Marshal, i. 403, 412, 415, 419, 429;
encamps at Blenheim, 431;
his formation, 434;
defeated and taken prisoner, 440-445
Tangier, i. 297
Tanjore, British in, ii. 192
Tassets. _See_ Arms and Armour
Taviers, i. 468
Temple, Lord, story of Wolfe told by, ii. 360, 536
Tencin, Cardinal, ii. 124
Terheyden, ii. 150
Tessé, Marshal, i. 449, 481
Thackeray's _Esmond_, i. 569
Thanes, i. 5
Thirty Years' War, i. 3, 168;
English and Scots fight in, 173 _et seq._
Thurloe, John, i. 312
Thurot (French privateer), descent on Ireland, ii. 501
Tilbury, camp at, i. 150
Tilly, victory at Lutter, i. 174;
defeat at Breitenfeld, 186
Tilly, Count Tscerclaes de, i. 412, 469
Tolmach, General, at Landen, i. 375;
expedition to Brest, 377
Tolpatches, ii. 147
Tongres, ii. 152
"Tories," ii. 38
Tournament, its military uses, i. 11
Tournay, Marlborough's siege of, i. 513; ii. 121
Townley, Francis, ii. 135
Townsend, Brigadier George, ii. 301, 361;
at Quebec, ii. 382;
at Vellinghausen, 527
Train-bands, i. 119, 128, 135, 195
Transport vessels, horrors of, i. 560, 570
Trelawny, Colonel, i. 306
Trelawny, Governor of Jamaica, ii. 76
Trichinopoly, ii. 208;
French and English contest for, 198, 221
Trichinopoly, Rajah of, ii. 176
Trincomalee, ii. 180
Tullibardine, Lord, ii. 9
Turenne, i. 266;
commends English soldiers, 270, 274, 296, 406; ii. 279
Tyrawley, Lord, ii. 564
Tyrconnel, Richard, Earl of, i. 303, 336
Underhill, Captain John, ii. 249
Unterglau, i. 433
Utrecht, Peace of, army disbanded after, ii. 3, 32;
North America and, 256
Valencia, taken by Peterborough, i. 481
Vasco da Gama, ii. 168
Vauban, i. 359, 474;
fortresses of, 513; ii. 292
Vaudreuil (Governor of Quebec), ii. 322, 378
Vegetius, quoted, i. 32
Velasco, i. 460
Venables, General Robert, i. 255, 260
Vendôme, Marshal, i. 475, 491;
sends detachment to Oudenarde, 495;
but out-marched by Marlborough, 496;
differences with Burgundy, 497;
at Oudenarde, 500;
campaign in Spain, 522
Vere, Francis, i. 147;
his ancestors great soldiers, 155;
siege of Ostend, 156;
exposes corruption in army, 157, 159;
at Nieuport, 161-165;
death, 167
Vere, Horace, i. 156, 164, 166
Vere, Robert, i. 156
Vergor, French commander at Quebec, ii. 374
Vernon, Admiral, capture of Porto Bello, ii. 58;
Carthagena expedition, 64, 79
Vezon, ii. 111
Villadarias, Marquis, i. 530
Villars, Marshal, i. 406, 412;
successes in 1703, 415;
replaced by Marsin, 418, 465;
recalled from the Rhine, 474;
commands again in 1709, 513;
wounded at Malplaquet, 532, 536;
campaign of 1711, 541;
out-generalled by Marlborough, 546
Villeroy, Marshal, i. 411, 413, 418, 421, 429;
captures Huy, 451;
errors at Ramillies, 466, 473;
superseded by Vendôme, 475, 491
Villiers, Elizabeth, i. 390
Virginians, clever irregular troops, ii. 281
Vlytingen, ii. 160
Von Imhoff, General, ii. 481
Wade, General, ii. 20, 26;
roads in Highlands, 49, 83, 87, 102, 104, 107, 132, 137
Waldeck, Prince of, i. 338
Waldegrave, Brigadier, at Minden, ii. 491;
at Warburg, 510;
at Wesel, 518
Wallace, William, i. 17
Wallenstein, i. 178, 188
Waller, Sir William, i. 205
Walpole, Sir Robert, Paymaster of Forces, ii. 5;
and army, 16, 18;
Excise Bill, 20, 48, 55;
against war, 57, 80, 567
Walpole, Horace, appreciation of Cumberland, ii. 567
Walsh, Brigadier, ii. 539
Wambais. _See_ Arms and Armour
Wandewash, Brereton's attack on, ii. 457;
Coote's victory at, 464
Wangenheim, General, at Minden, ii. 485-490, 555
_War Office and Army Organisation_--
In its early stages, i. 219;
defects in organisation, 556;
its want of consideration for soldiers, 562;
laziness of Board of Generals, ii. 31;
bad provision for Colonial troops, 43;
civilian element strong at, 561;
faulty records of, 562;
becomes more military in 18th century, 567
_Secretary-at-War_--
First appointed, i. 311;
accompanies Commander-in-Chief on active service, 359, 392;
change in his functions, 409;
under Anne, 554, 581;
powers of, 583;
Walpole, St. John, Granville, Lansdowne, Wyndham, and Gwynne as,
582;
Pulteney as, ii. 5;
list of from 1714-1735, 21;
increasing influence of, 21;
difficulties of, 25;
abuse of his powers, 27;
effect on army, 28
Warren, Commodore, ii. 258
Warwick, Earl of (the King-maker), i. 73
Washington, George, ii. 265, 270, 277, 285, 323
Watson, Admiral, ii. 236, 411
Webb, Colonel, ii. 296, 306
Webb, General Richmond, i. 507, 538, 577
Wentworth, General, ii. 59, 62;
letters to Newcastle, 63;
Carthagena expedition, 64-74;
Cuba, 75
West Indies, first British expedition to, i. 265;
our troops in, 560; ii. 42.
_See_ Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica,
Martinique, St. Kitts, St. Vincent
Wesleyans in Cumberland's army, ii. 121
Westphalen, General, Chief of Staff to Ferdinand of Brunswick,
ii. 496
White Company, the, i. 44
William I., i. 6, 7
William II. (Rufus), i. 8
William III. (of Orange), i. 296;
invades England, 305, 330;
increases army, 336;
conquest of Ireland, 341;
as a general, 356;
war with France, 357;
Steenkirk, 361-367;
Landen, 372-376;
invests Namur, 378;
bullied into disbanding army, 385-388;
disposal of Irish lands, 390;
estimate of his character, 392;
refuses to recognise Philip of Anjou, 398
William of Nassau, i. 142
William of Ypres, i. 23
William the Silent, i. 145
Williams, Roger, i. 139, 142;
in Leicester's army, 147
Willoughby, Lord, i. 147, 193
Wilmington, Lord, ii. 82
Wimbledon. See Cecil
Winslow, Edward, i. 260
Withers, General, i. 519
Wolfe, Colonel Edward, ii. 53
Wolfe, Colonel James, ii. 53, 58;
mentioned in Cumberland's despatches, 157, 308, 315, 319, 359;
operations against Quebec, 368-382;
death, 383;
criticisms on his generalship at Quebec, 387;
his monument, 498;
his humane qualities, 569
Wolseley, Colonel, i. 342
Worcester, ii. 38
Worge, Colonel, ii. 346
Würtemberg, Duke of, commands advance guard at Steenkirk, i. 362, 369,
422, 456, 470
Wutgenau, General, ii. 528
Wynyard, Colonel, ii. 58, 69
Xavier, Prince of Saxony, as ally of French, ii. 507, 527, 532, 547
Xenophon, Hipparchicus of, i. 106
Yeomanry, the, i. 133
Yeomen of the Guard, i. 110
Young, Sir William, ii. 17
York, Duke of, at Agincourt, i. 58-62, 77
York, James, Duke of, i. 270, 287, 294.
_See_ James II.
Yorke, Captain, ii. 449
Zastrow, General, ii. 555
Zinghis Khan, ii. 167
Zizka, John, his tactics copied at Roveray, i. 68;
his military genius, 82, 188;
compared with Cromwell, 281
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A frequent abbreviation in the Footnotes is 'Cal. S. P. Dom.'; this
stands for 'Calendar of State Papers, Domestic'. Also 'H. O. M. E. B.'
stands for 'Home Office Military Entry Book'.
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been
corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within
the text and consultation of external sources.
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text,
and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. For example,
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Pg viii, 'retreats northwards' replaced by 'retreats northward'.
Pg ix, 'Aix-le-Chapelle' replaced by 'Aix-la-Chapelle'.
Pg 9, 'in Ros-shire' replaced by 'in Ross-shire'.
Pg 60, 'not unsucessfully' replaced by 'not unsuccessfully'.
Pg 158, the missing anchor for Footnote [232] was inserted after
'opportunity was lost.'
Pg 167, 'form of an independant' replaced by 'form of an independent'.
Pg 170, 'petition to Parliment' replaced by 'petition to Parliament'.
Pg 177, 'French assistancee' replaced by 'French assistance'.
Pg 201, 'summond Clive' replaced by 'summoned Clive'.
Pg 219, '[Sidenote: Oct. 13/Nov. 11.]' replaced by
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Pg 428, 'a Madras had' replaced by 'at Madras had'.
Pg 509, 'of Ochsendorf of' replaced by 'of Ochsendorf and'.
Footnotes.
[5] (with its anchor on) pg 6, 'Miscellaneous Oraers' replaced by
'Miscellaneous Orders'.
[122] pg 52, 'Ibid' inserted before '30th October'.
[125] pg 52, 'Ibid' inserted before '11th November'.
[174] pg 91, 'June 2/3' replaced by 'June 2/13'.
[442] pg 581, 'Full pay per week' Dragoon descriptor replaced by
'Remains to be paid weekly'.
Index.
Andros; 'ii. 258' replaced by 'ii. 251'.
Parliament; 'ii. 1;' replaced by 'ii. 3;'.
Vernon; 'Portobello' replaced by 'Porto Bello'.
William III; 'Anjou, 598' replaced by 'Anjou, 398'.
Zinghis; 'Zenghis' replaced by 'Zinghis'.