CHAPTER XII

Decay of the Army's Unpopularity 562

Inefficiency of the War Office and Ordnance Office 563

Defects in the Colonial Stations 564

Reformers in the Army; Cumberland 566

Pitt; the New School of Officer 568

The Recruiting of the Army 572

Depots and Drafts 576

Recruiting in America 578

Condition of the Private Soldier 579

Nicknames; Bands; Medals 583

Reforms in the Cavalry; Increase of Dragoons 584

Light Dragoons 585

Reforms in the Artillery 587

Reforms in the Infantry 589

German Models and British Experience 592

APPENDIX A. 595

APPENDIX B. 598

INDEX 607

MAPS AND PLANS

Carthagena, 1741 _To face page_ 78

Main Country: Campaign of 1743 " 122

Dettingen, 1743 " 122

Fontenoy, 1745 " 122

Roucoux, 1746 " 164

Lauffeld, 1747 " 164

Monongahela, 1755 " 338

Region of Lake George, 1755 " 338

Ticonderoga " 338

Amherst's Flotilla, 1759 " 338

Covrepauk, 1752 " 474

Trichinopoly " 474

Plassey, 1757 " 474

Masulipatam, 1759 " 474

Wandewash, 1760 " 474

Minden, 1759 " 494

Martinique, 1762 " 544

Guadeloupe, 1759 " 544

Belleisle, 1761 " 544

Havanna, 1762 " 544

Part of Hesse-Cassel " 560

Warburg, 1760 " 560

Vellinghausen, 1761 " 560

Wilhelmsthal, 1762 " 560

Canada and the North American Colonies, 1680-1760 (with Plans of Louisburg and Quebec): Map 1 _End of volume_

Louisburg: _see_ Map 1

Quebec: _see_ Map 1

Siege of Quebec, 1759: _see_ Map 1

Hindostan, the Deccan, and the Carnatic (with Plans of Calcutta and Madras): Map 2 _End of volume_

Calcutta, 1757: _see_ Map 2

Madras, 1758: _see_ Map 2

Note.--Maps of the British Isles and Northern France for 1745-1746; of the Low Countries for the Campaigns of 1743-1748; of Spain and Portugal; and of Germany for the Campaigns of 1759-1762, will be found at the end of the First Volume.

ERRATA

Page 160, line 4 _for_ "left" _read_ "right." Page 192, line 13, _delete_ the words "the capital of Tanjore." Page 195, line 10, _for_ "Deccan" _read_ "Southern India." Page 203, line 13, _for_ "southward" _read_ "westward." Page 247, line 29, _for_ "Erie" _read_ "Michigan." Page 463, line 34, _for_ "In advance of their left front was another smaller tank which had been turned into an entrenchment," etc., _read_ "In advance of their left front were two smaller tanks, of which the foremost had been turned into an entrenchment," etc.