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, ii. 496

White Company, the, i. 44

William I., i. 6, 7

William II. (Rufus), i. 8

William III. (of Orange), i. 296;
invades England, 305, 330;
increases army, 336;
conquest of Ireland, 341;
as a general, 356;
war with France, 357;
Steenkirk, 361-367;
Landen, 372-376;
invests Namur, 378;
bullied into disbanding army, 385-388;
disposal of Irish lands, 390;
estimate of his character, 392;
refuses to recognise Philip of Anjou, 398

William of Nassau, i. 142

William of Ypres, i. 23

William the Silent, i. 145

Williams, Roger, i. 139, 142;
in Leicester's army, 147

Willoughby, Lord, i. 147, 193

Wilmington, Lord, ii. 82

Wimbledon. See Cecil

Winslow, Edward, i. 260

Withers, General, i. 519

Wolfe, Colonel Edward, ii. 53

Wolfe, Colonel James, ii. 53, 58;
mentioned in Cumberland's despatches, 157, 308, 315, 319, 359;
operations against Quebec, 368-382;