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,