14, 44;
red coats in 15th century, 56;
coat money, 110;
white coats under Tudors, 111, 114;
gunners' uniform, 123;
dress of king's body-guard, 124;
of landsknechts, 128;
poor equipment of English troops under Elizabeth, 131;
the cassock, 135;
description of in military pamphlets, 137;
scarves worn by English in Dutch army, 169;
Highland dress, 174;
royal colours first worn by Parliamentary troops, 213;
tawny coats of artillery, 217;
clothing of Cromwell's Irish army, 237;
of English in French army, 271;
scarlet coats adopted, 283;
blue of William the Third's infantry, 337;
grenadiers' plumes, 325;
colonels have to provide for clothing of men, 391;
uniforms at Blenheim, 439;
white coats of French, 469;
reforms due to Marlborough, 571;
of colonial troops, 563, ii. 41;
Frederick William's influence on, 51;
regulations of George II. as to, 52;
regimental numbers first appear on buttons, 583

Cobham, Lord, ii. 10.
See Temple, Richard

Cochrane, Lord, ii. 345

Cohorn (engineer), i. 413

Coignies, Count of, i. 415

Colbert, ii. 172

Coligny, The Admiral, i. 143

Colonel, origin of, i. 93

Colours. See Arms and Armour

Commissioners of Public Accounts, i. 381

Commissions of Array, i. 16, 197

Condé, Prince of (the Great Condé), i. 200, 270, 296

Condé, Prince of, ii. 109 (1762), 539, 553

Condottieri, the, i. 22

Conflans, French commander in India, ii. 442;
defeated at Condore, 445

Contades, Marshal, successful against Ferdinand of Brunswick, 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.