Produced by Brian Coe, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE This book is Vol. ii. The first volume can be found in Project Gutenberg at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55968 This volume covers the period from 1713 to 1763. The Julian calendar was still in use in England for much of this time. The change to the Gregorian calendar took place in Europe beginning in 1582, but in Britain not until 1752, producing a difference of eleven days between the Julian Old Style (OS) and the modern Gregorian New Style (NS) dates. Many Sidenotes and some Footnotes for the years before 1753 give both dates since contemporary English reference documents of that period used the OS date. The OS/NS dates are shown for example as [Sidenote: Sept. 20/Oct. 1.] or [Sidenote: Mar. 2/13.]. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. A superscript is denoted by ^{xx}, for example 30^{th} or 2^{nd}. Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes themselves have been placed near the end of the book in front of the Index. The Index in this book covers both volumes. References in the Index to Vol. i or Vol. ii pages are indicated for example by "i. 123, 456" or "ii. 234". Some minor changes to this volume are noted at the end of the book. A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ARMY [Illustration: (Publisher's colophon)] A History of The British Army BY THE HON. J. W. FORTESCUE _FIRST PART--TO THE CLOSE OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR_ VOL. II _Quæ caret ora cruore nostro_ London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1899 _All rights reserved_ 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