A History of the British Army, Vol. 2 First Part—to the Close of the Seven Years' War

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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,