Ellenborough, Lord, in India, 189-92 England, military backwardness, 48; growth of empire, 55-6, 58, 77; position in 1660, 55; projected invasion of, 86 Ferdinand of Brunswick, 77 Ferozeshah, battle of, 193 Flanders, wars in, 60, 63, 65, 75; and see Netherlands Fontenoy, battle of, 74 Forde, Col., 162 France, the Revolutionary War, 23-4, 27, 38, 41-2, 83-4; her colonies, 56, 58, 76-7, 102-4, 107, 123-4, 128; French in India, 154-62; our connection with, 47, 55; as ally of America, 112-3; aids the Stuarts, 75 Franklin, Benjamin, 109 Frederick the Great, mentioned, 41-2, 77 Frederick, Duke of York, 85 Gawilghur, capture of, 175 Geete R., 68 George I, 72 Germany, mercenaries in British pay, 75-7, 81-2; mentioned, 25, 32, 74, 77 Ghurkha war, 180 Ghazni, 188-9 Gibraltar, mentioned, 65, 72-3, 80-1 Gideon, his tactics, 44-5 Gillespie, Col. Rollo, in India, 177, 180 Goliath, 44 Goree, 82 Gough, Sir Hugh, in India 192-4, 198 Grenada, 126 Grey, General W., in the W. Indies, 125-6; General H., in India, 192 Guadeloupe, mentioned, 123, 126, 128 Guiana, Dutch, capture of, 127 Gujerat, action at, 194 Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, his military reforms, 53 Haiti, mentioned, 120, 124, 126 Halifax, British at, 107 Hannibal, 38 Hardinge, Sir Henry, in India, 192-3 Harris, General, in India, 173 Hastings, Warren, in India, 161, 165-9 Hastings, Marquis of, in India, 180-1 Havana, siege of, 123; mentioned, 77 Henry V, mentioned, 48, 54 History, Military, definition of, 1-14, 45; use of, 19-22, 29, 39, 43 Holkar, mentioned, 174-5, 181 Holland, soldiers of, 52, 60; commerce of, 18, 55; wars in, 64, 67, 84, 86; colonies of, 102-3, 162 Howe, General, 111 Hyder Ali, mentioned, 164-5, 167-8 India, mentioned, 43, 57, 77; military history of, 150-200; adventurers in, 154, 171, 179, 196; campaigning in, 157-8; the presidencies, 160; administrative reforms in, 165, 169, 176, 196; the Mutiny, 195-6, 199 Indies, the West, British in, 55, 72, 77, 80, 84-5; character of country, 114-6, 118; ruin of, 128-9; Cromwell's expedition to, 119-20; later expeditions, 120-2, 124-8; the French in, 116, 123, 128 Inkermann, 51 Ireland, mentioned, 54, 59, 61, 64-5, 72 Italy, the French in, 86 Jamaica, mentioned, 115-6; capture of, 120 James II, mentioned, 57-59, 64-5 Japan, mentioned, 28, 52 Jelalabad, mentioned, 189 Jesuits, the, as colonists, 35, 103 Kabul, British at, 188-9, 197 Kaffir wars, 133-4 Kandahar, British at, 188-9, 197 Karachi, 190 Katharine of Bragança, mentioned, 56, 154 Katwa, battle of, 164 Kirkee, battle of, 181 Korigaon, battle of, 182 La Bassée, 68 Lake, General Gerard, in India, 174-5, 185, 198 Lally Tollendal, count, in India, 161-2 Laswari, battle of, 175