ef="@public@vhost@g@html@files@47245@47245-h@47245-h-4.htm.html#Page_132" class="pginternal">132 — drives Essex into Cornwall, 140 — mismanages Naseby campaign, 142 — takes refuge with Scots, 144 — executed, 145 Charles II. begins standing army, 151 Cheriton, battle of, 133 Chillianwalla, battle of, 312 Chroniclers, mediÆval, their weak points, 16, 19, 20n, 32, 47, 72, 113 Church supported William the Conqueror, 14 Churchill, Gen., at Blenheim, 162 Ciudad Rodrigo, position of, 206 — sieges of, 207, 216 Civil War, peculiar character of, 128 — local division of parties in, 130 Clausel, Gen., at Salamanca, 226 Clifford, Ld., at Towton, 104 Clive, Robert, founded English power in India, 295 — sent to recover Calcutta, 296 — allies secretly with Meer Jaffier, 297 — wins Plassy, 299 Cnut divided England into earldoms, 11 Colborne, Col., at Waterloo, 262 Column, definition of, 176 — English, at Fontenoy, 181 — versus line. See Line Combination of different arms at Hastings, 25 — at Falkirk, 45 — at Crecy, 61, 73 Conquest, when impossible, 46 Contades, marshal, at Minden, 184 Coote, Eyre, at Plassy, 297 Cornwall, Essex driven into, 140 — Rd. Earl of, at Lewes, 31 Corunna, battle of, 198 Courtrai, battle of, 45 Craufurd, Gen. R., marches to Talavera, 202 — on the Coa, 206n — at Busaco, 208 — killed at Ciudad Rodrigo, 217 Crawford, L., parliamentary general, 134 Crecy, battle of, 61 sqq. — novelty of tactics, 61 — an epoch in art of war, 67 Cressingham, killed at Cambuskenneth, 42 Crevant, battle of, 92 Crimean war, state of Europe before, 268 GÉrard, Gen., in Waterloo campaign, 249 Glansdale, Sir W., at siege of Orleans, 97 Gloucester, siege of, 132 — E. of, at Lewes, 31 — — at Evesham, 36 Gneisenau, Gen., in Waterloo campaign, 249 Golab Sing in Punjab, 310 Goring, royalist general at Marston Moor, 138 Gortschakoff, prince, in Crimea, 280, 287 Gough, Sir H., at Moodkee, 308 — at Ferozeshah, 309 — at Sobraon, 310 — at Ramnugur, 312 — at Chillianwalla, 313 — at Gujerat, 314 Graham, Gen., in Vittoria campaign, 231 Grouchy, marshal, detached to pursue Blucher, 247 — will not "march to the cannon," 249 — could he have saved Waterloo? 250 — retreats successfully into France, 251 Guienne, never French before Edward III., 55 — becomes French in feelings, 79 Gujerat, battle of, 314 Gunpowder came slowly into use, 115 — political effects of, 117 (See Artillery and Musket.) Gyrth, Harold's brother, killed at Hastings, 24 Halidon Hill, battle of, 118 Hamley, Sir E., on battle of the Alma, 273 — — Balaclava, 279 — — Inkerman, 284 Hanoverian troops at Fontenoy, 181 — at Minden, 185 Hardinge, Sir H., Gov.-Gen. of India, 307 — at Ferozeshah, 308 Harfleur, siege of, 82 Harold Hardrada invades England, 15 — killed at Stamford bridge, 16 Harold, king, election of, 12 — story of his oath, 13n — his measures for defence, 14 — goes north to fight Northmen, 15 — at Stamford bridge, 16 — rapidity of his return, 18 — urged not to face the Normans in person, 19 — chooses position at Hastings, 21 — killed in battle, 26 — his burial, 26 Hastings, battle of, 20 sqq. — authorities for, 19, 20 — John, D. of, at Poitiers, 76 — Edward III. invades, 59 — Henry V. marches through, 83 — — conquers, 92 Norman conquest, effects of, 27 Northampton, battle of, 103 Northmen, at Stamford bridge, 15 — importance of their defeat, 16 Nottingham, Charles I. raises standard at, 131 Numbers engaged at Agincourt, 88 — Albuera, 211 — Alma, 270 — Barnet, 110 — Blenheim, 163 — Crecy, 61 — Flodden, 120 — Inkerman, 281, 283 — Marston Moor, 137 — Minden, 184 — Naseby, 143 — Plassy, 297 — Poitiers, 75 — Quebec, 192 — Salamanca, 226 — Talavera, 204 — Towton, 107n — in Waterloo campaign, 240 — at Waterloo, 254 Oblique order, 312n Oporto, passage of Douro at, 200 Orleans, "key of the south," 93 — siege of, 94 — D. of, at Poitiers, 77 — D. of, Regent, 180 Oudenarde, battle of, 172 Outram, Gen., relieves Lucknow, 316 Oxford, head-quarters of Charles I., 132 — siege of, 142 — E. of, at Poitiers, 77 — E. of, at Barnet, 111 Pakenham, Gen., at Salamanca, 225 Parkman's History of Montcalm and Wolfe, 193 Patay, battle of, 99 Peishwa, the, 301 Pelissier, marshal, at siege of Sebastopol, 286 Peninsular war, general character of, 200 Pennefather, Gen., at Inkerman, 281 PÉrigord, cardinal of, mediates at Poitiers, 74 Phalanx, Macedonian, 45 Philip VI. of France provokes Edward III. to war, 54 — cannot control nobles at Crecy, 63 — his death, Sea, value of command of, in war, to Edward III., 59 — to Marlborough, 173 — at Quebec, 190 — in Peninsula, 199, 228 — in Crimea, 269, 288 Sebastopol, siege of, its unique character, 274, 287 Seine, river, Edward III.'s difficulty in crossing, 60 Self-denying Ordinance, 141 Sepoys, of all Indian races, 289 — their belief in English officers, 290 — English won India through, 295 — mutiny of, 315 Shakespeare on Agincourt, 85 Sherbrooke, Gen., at Talavera, 201 Siege, transition from mediÆval to modern type of, 97 — of Sebastopol, last of the Vauban period, 274 Sikhs, rise of their power, 305 — virtual anarchy among, 307 — betrayed by own leaders in first war, 309 — provoke second war, 311 — become subjects of the East India Company, 315 Sindia, (1) ambitious schemes of, 300 — (2) provokes war with English in Assye campaign, 301 — (3) stands by English in Mutiny, 315 Smith, Sir H., at Aliwal, 310 Snorro Sturleson, his saga of Stamford bridge, 16 Snow during battle of Towton, 108 Sobraon, battle of, 310 Somerset, D. of, at Towton, 104 — D. of, at Barnet, 111 — D. of, at Tewkesbury, 114 Souham, Gen., 227 Soult, marshal, driven from Oporto, 200 — forces Wellington to retire after Talavera, 205 — takes Badajos, 210 — at Albuera, 211 — evacuates Andalusia, 227 — in command after Vittoria, 234 Spain favourable to French claimant, 155, 173 — invaded by Napoleon, 197 — character of resistance in, 198 — government of, incompetent, 199 — geography of, 199 — French driven out of, 234 Squares, natural formation against cavalry in days of musket, 176 — at Waterloo, 260 — unnecessary with rifle, 276 Stakes as defence for archers first used by Henry V., 87 Stamford bridge,Richard Clay & Sons, Limited,
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