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HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ARMY
The British Army
BY
The Hon. J. W. FORTESCUE
FIRST PARTTO THE CLOSE OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR
VOL. II
Qu caret ora cruore nostro
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1899
All rights reserved
CONTENTS |
| PAGE |
| The Reduction of the Army |
| Mischievous influence of Bolingbroke and Ormonde |
| Death of Queen Anne; Return of Marlborough |
| King George I.; the New Ministry |
| The Jacobite Rebellion of 1715 |
| Increase of the Army; Ninth to Fourteenth Dragoons raised |
| Chelsea Pensioners recalled; Forty-first Foot raised |
| Sheriffmuir and Preston |
| Reduction of the Army, 1717-1718 |
| War with Spain |
| Invasion of Scotland; Action of Glenshiel |
| Attack on Vigo |
| Death of Marlborough |
| His Funeral |
| The Condition of England under George I. |
| The Army the only force for Maintenance of Order |
| The cry of No Standing Army |
| The British Establishment Fixed by Walpole |
| Attacks on the Army in Parliament |
| Opposition to the Mutiny Act |
| Parliament asks for the Articles of War |
| Officers cashiered for Political Disobligations |
| Omnipotence of the irresponsible Secretary-at-War |
| Hostility of Civilians against Soldiers |
| Discipline ruined by the Secretary-at-War's Supremacy |
| King George's efforts to arrest Indiscipline and Peculation |
| His dislike of Purchase |
| General Apathy of Officers |
| Bad Standard of Character among Recruits |
| Desertion and Fraudulent Enlistment |
| Other Scandals |
| System of Imperial Defence |
| The Colonies; "White Servants" |
| Gradual necessity for Increasing the Regular Garrisons in the |
| Colonies |
| Helplessness of the War Office in face of the problem |
| Unpopularity of Garrison Service Abroad |
| Technical Improvements in the Army |
| Royal Regiment of Artillery formed |
| Rise of the Forty-second Highlanders |
| Contemporary Reforms in Prussia |
| Their Evil Influence in England |
| The Officers of the Past and of the Future |
| Waning of Walpole's Popularity |
| The Quarrel with Spain |
| Popularity of a Spanish War |
| An Expedition to the Spanish Main resolved on |
| The Preparations; Cathcart and Wentworth |
| Incredible Mismanagement of the War Office |
| Death of Cathcart |
| The British and American Contingents meet at Jamaica |
| Decision to Attack Carthagena |
| The Operations begun; Vernon and Wentworth |
| The Attack on Fort St. Lazar |
| Frightful Condition of the Troops |
| The Enterprise against Carthagena abandoned |
| Descent upon Cuba |
| The Descent abandoned; continued Mortality among the Troops |
| The Spanish War ended by Yellow Fever |
| Anson's Voyage |
| Wentworth's responsibility for the disasters of Carthagena |
| The blame due also to the War Office and Ordnance Office |
| Faction in Parliament the true secret of the catastrophe |
| Dispute over the Austrian Succession |
| Aggression of Frederick the Great |
| Ambitious Projects of France |
| England sends aid to Queen Maria Theresa |
| Army increased; Forty-third to Forty-eighth Regiments raised |
| John, Earl of Stair |
| His Advice and his Plans |
| The Campaign of 1742 |
| Stair's Plans for the winter rejected |
| The British Army marches to the Main |
| Fresh Projects of Stair rejected |
| He forms new Plans |
| He disobeys Orders to prove their soundness |
| Desperate Peril of the Allies owing to disregard of his counsel |
| Battle of Dettingen |
| Stair resigns the Command |
| Insufficiency of the British Preparations for 1744 |
| Saxe's Operations |
| Wade paralysed by the Dutch and Austrians |
| Stair's Plan of Campaign |
| Inactivity of Dutch and Austrians; Wade Resigns |
| Ligonier's proposals for a great effort in 1745 |
| Cumberland appointed to the Command |
| The French Position at Fontenoy |
| Battle of Fontenoy |
| Cumberland's False Movements after Fontenoy |
| Extreme Peril of his situation |
| Recall of the Army to England |
| Designs of Charles Stuart |
| His Landing in Scotland |
| General Cope marches northward |
| He Retires by Sea; Advance of the Rebels |
| The "Canter of Coltbrigg" |
| Cope Lands at Dunbar; Action of Prestonpans |
| Charles enters Edinburgh; the Castle holds out |
| Preparations in England |
| Charles invades England |
| He out-manuvres Cumberland and enters Derby |
| He retreats northward and besieges Stirling |
| Hawley appointed to Command in Scotland |
| Action of Falkirk |
| Cumberland assumes Command in Scotland |
| He advances northward; Charles retreats |
| Battle of Culloden |
| Good service rendered by Cumberland |
| French Capture Antwerp; British base shifted |
| Saxe's Plan of Campaign and Operations |
| Battle of Roucoux |
| Futile Expedition to L'Orient |
| The Campaign of 1747 |
| Battle of Lauffeld |
| Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle |
| The Mohammedan Conquest of India |
| The Mahrattas |
| European Voyages to India |
| The English East India Company |
| First British Troops sent to India |
| The first Military Establishment in Bombay |
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