Army, the British, foreign nomenclature in, 52; reductions in, 58, 61-2, 72, 96, 134; under Ch. II, 56-7; under Will. III, 59-63; under Anne, 65; under Geo. I, 72; under Geo. II, 74-9; under Geo. III, 80, 82-3; in the 19th cent., 97-8; confused organisation of, 61; ill-treatment of, 73, 83; introduction of short service, 134-5; weapons of, 48-50, 60; appreciation of officers, 144-9; early organisation of, 47-9, 54; the New Model, 54 Assam, capture of, 184 Assaye, battle of, 175 Assiento, Treaty, 117 Auckland, Lord, in India, 187 Aurungzib, the Emperor, 153-4 Austrian Succession, War of, 74, 106, 155 Ava, British at, 183-4 Badajoz, capture of, 25 Bahama Is., 80 Barbados, 116, 124 Barlow, Sir George, in India, 176, 178-9 Barrington, General, in W. Indies, 123 Bentinck, Lord Wm., in India, 186-7 Bermuda, 80, 130 Bhurtpore, assaults on, 175, 185 _Birkenhead_, the, mentioned, 36, 46 Bismarck, 43 Blenheim, battle of, 68 Blues, Regt. of, their origin, 56 Bombay, mentioned, 56, 153, 166, 168 Bonsla, mentioned, 181 Braddock, General, in N. America, 107-9 Burgoyne, General, in N. America, 110-11 Burke, Edmund, 80 Burma, campaigns in, 182-5, 194-5, 197; annexed, 197 Bussy, de, in India, 161 Buxar, battle of, 164 Caesar, Julius, 40 Calais, 47 Calcutta, 154, 160 Canada, French in, 102; fighting in, 104-5, 109; American invasion of, 110, 113, 137; and see America Capetown, capture of, 131 Caribs, the, fighting with, 117-8 Carnot, mentioned, 40 Carthagena, expedition to, 121-2 Castlereagh, Lord, at the War Office, 88 Chaka, king of Zulus, 41 Chandernagore, 154 Charles II, mentioned, 56, 117 Charles of Bourbon, 24 Charles Ed. Stuart, in Scotland, 74-6 Chillianwalla, action at, 194 Chitu, 182 Clive, Robert, in India, 156, 159, 160-4 Coldstream Guards, origin of, 56 Colonies, character of campaigns in, 99-102 Commerce, in war, 1-3; its cruelty, 16-18 Condé, Prince of, 65 Continental System, the, 2 Coomassie, British at, 143 Coote, Sir Eyre, in India, 159, 162, 167-8 Cornwallis, Lord, in India, 169-172, 176 Cotton, Sir Stapleton, in India, 185 Crimea, war of, 97 Cromwell, O., mentioned, 3, 22, 58; reforms of, 53-4; expedition to the W. Indies, 119-20 Cuba, mentioned, 115-6, 123, 130 Cuddalore, action at, 168 Culloden, battle of, 75 Dalhousie, Lord, in India, 194-5 Danube R., campaign on, 67 David, king of Israel, 44 Deig, battle of, 175 Delhi, mentioned, 43, 151-2, 171, 175, 199 Dettingen, battle of, 74 Dost Mohammed, 187-8 Dubba, action at, 191 Dupleix, Joseph, in India, 155-7 East India Co., its troops, 57, 83, 154, 178, 186, 198; mentioned, 153, 171, 176, 196 Edward III, 48 Egypt, mentioned, 51, 86 Elizabeth, Queen, mentioned, 47, 52