A History of the British Army, Vol. 2 First Part—to the Close of the Seven Years' War
CHAPTER I
PAGE The Reduction of the Army 3
Mischievous influence of Bolingbroke and Ormonde 3
Death of Queen Anne; Return of Marlborough 4
King George I.; the New Ministry 4
The Jacobite Rebellion of 1715 5
Increase of the Army; Ninth to Fourteenth Dragoons raised 6
Chelsea Pensioners recalled; Forty-first Foot raised 6
Sheriffmuir and Preston 7
Reduction of the Army, 1717-1718 8
War with Spain 8
Invasion of Scotland; Action of Glenshiel 9
Attack on Vigo 10
Death of Marlborough 10
His Funeral 11
The Condition of England under George I. 14
The Army the only force for Maintenance of Order 15
The cry of No Standing Army 15
The British Establishment Fixed by Walpole 17
Attacks on the Army in Parliament 17
Opposition to the Mutiny Act 18
Parliament asks for the Articles of War 19
Officers cashiered for Political Disobligations 20
Omnipotence of the irresponsible Secretary-at-War 21
Hostility of Civilians against Soldiers 24
Discipline ruined by the Secretary-at-War's Supremacy 26