TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. Some minor changes are noted at the end of the book. The Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature MILITARY HISTORY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS C. F. CLAY, MANAGER London: FETTER LANE, E.C. Edinburgh: 100 PRINCES STREET [Illustration: (Publisher's colophon.)] Berlin: A. ASHER AND CO. Leipzig: F. A. BROCKHAUS New York: G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS Bombay and Calcutta: MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD. Toronto: J. M. DENT AND SONS, LTD. Tokyo: THE MARUZEN-KABUSHIKI-KAISHA _All rights reserved_ [Illustration: MILITARY HISTORY LECTURES DELIVERED AT TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE BY The Hon. J. W. FORTESCUE Cambridge: at the University Press 1914] Cambridge: PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS PREFACE There is little in these lectures, or at any rate in three out of four of them, which I have not written at greater length in other volumes. I therefore publish them unwillingly, and in deference only to the wishes of some of my audience, whose good opinion I greatly value, and whose kindly sympathy I shall never forget. If this little volume should set but one student thinking seriously as to the meaning of military history, its object will be fully accomplished. The spelling of Indian names has been, as usual, a stumbling-block. No doubt I shall be asked why I have used the form _Narbada_ for the more familiar _Nerbuddha_, and yet written _Hyder Ali_ instead of _Haidar Ali_. I can only say that when the form _Kalkáta_ (or whatever may be the Hunterian spelling) is substituted for _Calcutta_, I shall be prepared to plead guilty to inconsistency. J. W. F. _March 1914._ CONTENTS LECT. PAGE PREFACE v I. MILITARY HISTORY: ITS SCOPE AND DEFINITION 1 II. BRITISH MILITARY HISTORY 46 III. BRITISH COLONIAL CAMPAIGNS 99 IV. BRITISH CAMPAIGNS IN INDIA 150 INDEX 201 LECTURE I MILITARY HISTORY: ITS SCOPE AND DEFINITION