INDEX.
- Achæan, curious mode of warfare, 131
- Alexander II. of Russia, 3, 10
- Armed neutrality, the, 86
- Armour, 55, 224
- Ashantee battle song, 86
- Balloonists in war, 148
- Battles, allusions to:
- Agincourt, 201, 262
- Bouvines, 194
- Camperdown, 80
- Crecy, 9, 54
- Dover, 84
- Musselborough, 56
- Navarette, 59
- Neerwinden, 6
- Nicopoli, 56
- Nile, 81
- Otterbourne, 196
- Pavia, 141
- Poitiers, 207
- Tel-el-Kebir, 253
- Bearskin hats, 223, 224
- Becon, Thomas, on military service in the sixteenth century, 208
- Bishops in war, 35, 52-3, 193-8, 261
- Blinding of prisoners, 42-3
- Blockade, effective, 92
- Bloodhounds used in war, 171-2
- Bombardment, theory and practice of, 12, 15, 17, 106, 116
- Bounties for scalps, 156
- Brigand, meaning of, 57
- Britons, love for military life, 156
- Brussels Conference on laws of war, 10, 94, 95, 105, 123, 130, 141-6-7-8, 158
- Bullinger, limits to right of military service, 208, 263
- Cannons, 5
- Cannon-shot oath, 130
- Capitulations, 100-1
- Chain-shot, 6
- Chivalry, age of, 32
- Church, influence of, on war, 52, 185-193, 204-16, 252
- Churches, destruction of, 48
- Church parade, 219
- Cities, fate of, in war:
- Amiens, surprise of, 148
- Badajoz, storming of, 27
- Barcelona, siege of, 138
- Brescia, storming of, 103
- Calais, siege of, 44
- Constantine, storming of, 27
- Copenhagen, bombardment of, 15, 268
- Dinant, storming of, 102
- Gaza, storming of, 107
- Grammont, massacre at, 35
- Gravelines, massacre at, 36
- Haarlem, siege of, 97
- Liège, storming of, 102
- Limoges, massacre at, 37
- Londonderry, siege of, 197-8
- Magdeburg, massacre at, 27, 112
- Malta, siege of, 97
- Meaux, surrender of, 45, 101
- Mirandola, siege of, 197
- Oudenarde, siege of, 47
- Pekin, English at, 237
- Persepolis, burning of, 108
- Poitiers, massacre at, 34
- Rome, sack of, 103
- Rouen, surrender of, 47, 101
- San Sebastian, storming of, 28
- Strasburg, bombardment of 15, 17, 106
- Terouanne, destruction of, 137
- Thebes, sack of, 103
- Toledo, siege of, 42
- Tyre, siege of, 108
- Ulm, surprise of, 149
- Washington, English in, 16
- Conference stratagem, 136
- Conscription, the, 242-8
- Consecration of banners, 201
- Contraband, 88
- Contributions, military, 20, 118
- Costume, military, 222-3
- Crossbow, 4, 133
- Cruelty and courage, 110
- Custom of war, character of, 186, 210
- Decimation, story of, 222
- Declaration of Paris, 73, 78, 86-9
- Declaration of St. Petersburg, 2, 3, 81
- Declaration of war, 19, 198
- Desertion, 230-1
- Discipline, 7, 218, 234, 236
- Dress, philosophy of military, 229
- Duty, 74, 121, 264
- Embargoes, 89
- Explosive bullets, 1-2, 81
- False flag, stratagem of the, 128-130
- False information in war, 152
- Fecials, Roman, 271
- Firearms, feeling against, 5, 226
- Fireships, 84-5
- Flogging, 234-5
- Forged despatches, 151
- Free Companies, 60, 260
- Free ships, free goods, 87
- Fruit-trees, 16, 17, 47, 161
- Germans, the, in war, 40, 106, 115-9
- Greek fire, 83-4
- Grenadiers, 223
- Hanging in war, 44-7
- Honour, variable notions of, 155-6, 267
- Hostages, taking of, revived, 117
- Innocent III., 206
- Invention of the bayonet, 6
- Jomini, Baron, President of Brussels Conference, 95
- Julius II., story of, 196
- Jus Angariæ, 90
- Justice in war, 208, 258-9, 271, 273-80
- Khonds, theory of war, 203
- Kidnapping soldiers in Germany, 241
- Kissing the earth, custom of, 201
- Lateran Council, Third, 4
- Laws of war among savages, 159
- Lent, observation of, in war, 51, 205
- Leo the Great, 204
- Letters of marque, 74, 78
- Letters, military contempt for, 156
- Limoges, Council of, 203
- Loha Pennu, an Indian war-god, 203
- Macedonian warfare, 133
- Magic, use of, in war, 199
- Malingering, 231-4
- Marriage, restrictions on, 218-9
- Mercenary service, 260-3
- Military cant, 21, 105-6, 118, 163
- — vandalism, 16, 48, 163, 237
- Missionaries, 176-182
- — failure of, 177
- — legal control of, 181
- Missionaries, Norwegian, in Zululand, 179
- Mission stations destroyed, 180
- Mozley, Canon, on war, 212
- Musket, 5, 133
- Mutiny Act, first, 265
- Names of weapons, 200
- Neutral ships and property, 86
- Night attacks, 133
- Numbers slain in war, 8-10
- Oath, military, 264-5
- Oath by cannon-shot, 130
- Ophthalmia, artificial, 233
- Palatinate, devastation of the, 17, 267
- Pay, soldiers’, 239, 261
- Perfidy, cases of, 135
- Perjury, cases of, 139
- Perpetual peace, Von Moltke on, 119
- Piracy, 67-70, 255
- Plunder of property at sea, 67-70
- Plunder of property on land, 61-3, 66, 118
- Poison, use of, in war, 13, 14, 172-3
- Poisoning the air, 49
- Poisoning water, 14, 29
- Press, influence of, in war, 112, 177, 182, 253
- Prisoners, treatment of, 17, 18, 40, 85, 99, 113
- Prisoners, beheaded, 97, 106
- — blinded, 43
- — burnt, 103, 111
- — drowned, 101-2-6
- — hung, 46, 101-3
- — maimed, 43, 103
- — massacred, 41, 111
- — tortured, 194
- Privateering, 70-9
- — Lord Nelson on, 77
- Prizes and prize-money, 70
- Prize Court, 76
- Punishments, military, 221-6
- Purificatory battle rites, 250
- Pursers on privateers, 76
- Recruiting, difficulty of, 240
- — former system of, in France and Germany, 241
- Red, the military colour, 223
- Red-hot shot, 5, 83
- Reprisals, 93-118
- — savage German, 117-8
- Right of search, 88
- Right of wreck, 89
- Roman warfare, 114, 132, 271-2
- Sacred buildings in war, 16, 48-9
- Sea battles, 80, 83
- Scalping enemies, 170
- Sentry-go, 229
- Slavery, influence of its cessation on war, 112
- Socialism, chief cause of, 245-8
- Soldiers of mark:
- Alaric, 204
- Alexander the Great, 107-10, 133
- Barbarossa, 100
- Bayard, 6, 57, 149, 151, 165, 201, 226, 273
- Bertrand du Guesclin, 40-1, 44
- Black Prince, the, 37, 59
- Blücher, 16, 17
- Cæsar, 98, 156, 169, 272
- Catinat, 145
- Chandos, Sir John, 55
- Charles of Anjou, 100
- Charles the Bold, 111
- Charles XII. of Sweden, 133, 226
- Crillon, 22, 73, 243
- Custine, 145
- David, king of the Jews, 111, 251
- David I. of Scotland, 111
- Des Adretz, 111
- Edward I., 106
- Edward III., 44
- Eugene, Prince, 149
- Feuquières, 97, 138, 149
- Francis I., 140
- Francis de Vere, 104
- Frederick the Great, 16, 142
- Genseric, 205
- Godfrey de Bouillon, 100
- Gustavus Adolphus, 19-20, 22, 221
- Henri Quatre, 30
- Henry V., 101
- Keppel, Admiral, 270
- Manny, Sir Walter, 44, 57
- Maurice, Prince, 150
- Montluc, 107, 121, 133, 137, 145, 156
- Moltke, 119
- Orange, Prince of, 152
- Parma, Prince of, 146
- Pélissier, 165
- Peterborough, Lord, 138
- Pyrrhus, 157
- Richard I., 111, 195
- Saxe, Marshal, 226
- Scipio, 146
- Sertorius, 143, 145
- Sully, 30
- Suwarrow, 238
- Wellington, Duke of, 20, 236
- Wolseley, Lord, 143-4, 151, 244
- Xerxes, 47, 99, 146
- Spaniards in war, 40, 42, 97, 167-9, 200
- Spies, 141-8
- Vattel on, 141
- Frederick the Great on, 142
- Lord Wolseley on, 143-4
- Storming cities, 27, 238
- Surprises, 148-9
- Surrender at discretion, 45, 100, 123
- Ternate, island of, 131
- Torpedoes, first use of, 5
- — introduced into European warfare, 85
- Treatise on Tactics by Leo VI., 83
- Truce of God, 205
- War, real character of, 27, 186, 210
- Wars, abolition of private, 205, 227
- Weapons, 50
- Women, imprisoned in war, 38
- Women and children, slaughter of, 23, 33-8, 117
- Women as soldiers, 242
- Writers, &c.:
- Arrian, 109
- Bluntschli, 127
- Bynkershoeck, 14, 127
- Cicero, 114, 126
- Descartes, 254
- Dobritzhoffer, 160
- Emerigon, 73
- Erasmus, 186, 244
- Froissart, 23
- Frontinus, 134
- Grotius, 14, 17, 23, 126, 187, 256, 258, 273
- Hallam, 32, 50
- Hautefeuille, 67
- Kant, 23, 30
- Las Casas, 167
- Molloy, 77
- Origen, 190
- Palmerston, Lord, 227
- Penn, 173
- Polyænus, 135
- Quintus Curtius, 109
- St. Pierre, Abbé, 30
- Sepulveda, 167
- Tertullian, 189
- Turner, Sir James, 259
- Valin, 73
- Vattel, 14, 18, 21, 73, 104-5, 139, 141, 266
- Vauban, 15
- Victor Hugo, 252
- Voltaire, 210, 267-8
- Whewell, 67
- Wycliffe, 193
- Zwingli, 263
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