CONTENTS
BOOK VII
CHAPTER I
PAGE
The Reduction of the Army 3
Mischievous influence of Bolingbroke and Ormonde 3
Death of Queen Anne; Return of Marlborough 4
King George I.; the New Ministry 4
The Jacobite Rebellion of 1715 5
Increase of the Army; Ninth to Fourteenth Dragoons raised 6
Chelsea Pensioners recalled; Forty-first Foot raised 6
Sheriffmuir and Preston 7
Reduction of the Army, 1717-1718 8
War with Spain 8
Invasion of Scotland; Action of Glenshiel 9
Attack on Vigo 10
Death of Marlborough 10
His Funeral 11
The Condition of England under George I. 14
The Army the only force for Maintenance of Order 15
The cry of No Standing Army 15
The British Establishment Fixed by Walpole 17
Attacks on the Army in Parliament 17
Opposition to the Mutiny Act 18
Parliament asks for the Articles of War 19
Officers cashiered for Political Disobligations 20
Omnipotence of the irresponsible Secretary-at-War 21
Hostility of Civilians against Soldiers 24
Discipline ruined by the Secretary-at-War's Supremacy 26
CHAPTER II
King George's efforts to arrest Indiscipline and Peculation 29
His dislike of Purchase 30
General Apathy of Officers 31
Bad Standard of Character among Recruits 32
Desertion and Fraudulent Enlistment 32
Other Scandals 34
System of Imperial Defence 36
The Colonies; "White Servants" 37
Gradual necessity for Increasing the Regular Garrisons in the
Colonies 42
Helplessness of the War Office in face of the problem 42
Unpopularity of Garrison Service Abroad 45
Technical Improvements in the Army 48
Royal Regiment of Artillery formed 49
Rise of the Forty-second Highlanders 49
Contemporary Reforms in Prussia 51
Their Evil Influence in England 209
The French retire to Seringham 210
Surprise of Clive's Force at Samiaveram 211
Surrender of the French Force 214
CHAPTER III
Intrigues of Dupleix; British Successes Neutralised 215
Defeat of Major Kinnear 216
Lawrence's Victory at Bahoor 217
Clive at Chingleput and Covelong 218
Contest for Trichinopoly renewed 221
Perilous Situation of the British 223
Lawrence's First Victory before Trichinopoly 224
His Second Victory 226
His Third Victory 230
Dupleix's attempt to surprise Trichinopoly fails 233
His Proposals for Peace rejected 233
Lawrence's situation at Trichinopoly still critical 234
Suspension of Arms; Recall of Dupleix 236
BOOK IX
CHAPTER I
French Explorers in North America 241
The English Settlements 243
Predominance of Massachusetts in the North 244
New York Captured by the British 245
French Explorations in the West 246
Their Design to confine the British to a strip of the Sea-board 246
Governor Dongan; the Iroquois 248
French and English Settlers and Military Systems 249
English Regular Troops in America 251
The War of 1689; Peril of New York 251
Failure of the Colonial Counterstroke on Canada 252
Massachusetts appeals to England for help 252
War of the Spanish Succession; Colonial Operations 254
Capture of Nova Scotia; British failure before Quebec 255
The Building of Louisburg 256
French Forts at Crown Point and Niagara 257
Colonial Apathy 257
War of the Austrian Succession; Colonists Capture Louisburg 257
Projected Operations for 1746 259
Neglect of America by Newcastle's Government 260
CHAPTER II
Reduction of the Army at Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle 261
Foundation of Halifax 262
British and French on the Ohio 402
CHAPTER V
India: Hollowness of the Truce of 1755 406
It is infringed by both sides 407
Bussy 408
Surajah Dowlah 409
His Advance against Calcutta; the Black Hole 410
Madras sends aid to Bengal 411
Clive surprised at Budge Budge 412
Surajah Dowlah again Advances on Calcutta 413
Clive surprises his Camp 414
Alliance of Surajah Dowlah and the British 415
Capture of Chandernagore 415
Conspiracy against Surajah Dowlah 415
Clive Advances on Moorshedabad 416
Anxiety of his position; he Advances to Plassey 417
Battle of Plassey 418
Death of Surajah Dowlah; Meer Jaffier installed in his place 424
CHAPTER VI
Southern India 426
Arrival of French Reinforcements under Lally 428
Admiral Pocock's First Action with d'AchÉ 429
Lally besieges Fort St. David 430
Fall of Fort St. David; Capture of Devicotah 431
Lally's disastrous March to Tanjore 432
Pocock's Second Action against d'AchÉ 434
Lally's Preparations against Madras 435
Counter-preparations of the British 435
Bussy recalled from Hyderabad 436
Lally Advances upon Madras 437
Abortive Sortie of the British 438
Lally's difficulties during the Siege 439
The Siege raised 440
Clive's counter-stroke against the Northern Sirkars 441
Forde's Advance against Conflans 442
Battle of Condore 442
Forde delayed in his Advance on Masulipatam 445
He lays Siege to the Fort 447
His desperate Position 447
Storm of Masulipatam 449
The Fruits of the Victory 453
CHAPTER VII
British Operations in the Carnatic 454
Lally's difficulties with his Troops 455
Alarm of Dutch Aggression in Bengal

MAPS AND PLANS

Carthagena, 1741 Tofacepage 78
Main Country: Campaign of 1743 " 122
Dettingen, 1743 " 122
Fontenoy, 1745 " 122
Roucoux, 1746 " 164
Lauffeld, 1747 " 164
Monongahela, 1755 " 338
Region of Lake George, 1755 " 338
Ticonderoga " 338
Amherst's Flotilla, 1759 " 338
Covrepauk, 1752 " 474
Trichinopoly " 474
Plassey, 1757 " 474
Masulipatam, 1759 " 474
Wandewash, 1760 " 474
Minden, 1759 " 494
Martinique, 1762 " 544
Guadeloupe, 1759 " 544
Belleisle, 1761 " 544
Havanna, 1762 " 544
Part of Hesse-Cassel " 560
Warburg, 1760 " 560
Vellinghausen, 1761 " 560
Wilhelmsthal, 1762 " 560
Canada and the North American Colonies, 1680-1760
(with Plans of Louisburg and Quebec): Map 1 End of volume
Louisburg: see Map 1
Quebec: see Map 1
Siege of Quebec, 1759: see Map 1
Hindostan, the Deccan, and the Carnatic
(with Plans of Calcutta and Madras): Map 2 End of volume
Calcutta, 1757: see Map 2
Madras, 1758: see Map 2

Note.—Maps of the British Isles and Northern France for 1745-1746; of the Low Countries for the Campaigns of 1743-1748; of Spain and Portugal; and of Germany for the Campaigns of 1759-1762, will be found at the end of the First Volume.

ERRATA

Page 160, line 4 for "left" read "right."

Page 192, line 13, delete the words "the capital of Tanjore."

Page 195, line 10, for "Deccan" read "Southern India."

Page 203, line 13, for "southward" read "westward."

Page 247, line 29, for "Erie" read "Michigan."

Page 463, line 34, for "In advance of their left front was another smaller tank which had been turned into an entrenchment," etc., read "In advance of their left front were two smaller tanks, of which the foremost had been turned into an entrenchment," etc.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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