[308] Preface to b. iii. ‘Ergo qui desiderat pacem, præparet bellum.’ [309] Lord Wolseley’s _Soldier’s Pocket Book_, 5. [310] Arbousset’s _Exploratory Tour_, 397-9. [311] Livy, xl. 6. [312] _Iliad_, vi. 266-8; and comp. _Æneid_, ii. 717-20. [313] Casalis’s _Basutos_, 258. [314] Victor Hugo’s _L’Ane_, 124. [315] Baillat’s _Vie de Descartes_, i. 41. [316] ii. 25, 9, 1. ‘Tanto carnifice detestabiliores quanto pejus est sine causâ quam ex causâ occidere.’ [317] _Ibid._ 2. ‘Nullum vitæ genus est improbius quam eorum qui sine causæ respectu mercede conducti militant, et quibus ibi fas ubi plurima merces.’ Both the sentiment and the expression are borrowed from Lucan’s _Pharsalia_, x. 408: ‘Nulla fides pietasque viris qui castra sequuntur Venalesque manus; ibi fas ubi plurima merces.’ [318] 364. [319] Potter’s _Greek Antiquities_, ii. 9. [320] Henry’s _Britain_, iii. 5, 1; Grose i. 56. [321] Grose, i. 58. [322] _Ibid._, i. 67. [323] _Parliamentary Debates_, May 24, 1756. [324] Sir S. Scott’s _British Army_, ii. 333. [325] N. Bacon’s Notes to _Selden’s Laws_, ii. 60. [326] _Candide_, c. xx. [327] Alison’s _Europe_, vi. 491. [328] _Life of Sir C. Napier_, i. 77. [329] _Military Law_, 17. [330] _Keppel’s Life_, by T. Keppel, ii. 1. [331] _Indian Expedition_, ix. [332] Livy, 39, 3; 42, 21; 43, 5. [333] Livy, xlv. 22. ‘Certe quidem vos estis Romani, qui ideo felicia bella vestra esse, quia justa sint, præ vobis fertis, nec tam exitu eorum, quod vincatis, quam principiis quod non sine causâ suscipiatis, gloriamini.’ [334] _De Civitate Dei_, iv. 4 and 6. [335] _Arbre des Batailles_, quoted in Kennedy’s _Influence of Christianity on International Law_. [336] Petitot, xvi. 137. [337] III. 65. ‘Cavendo ne metuant, homines metuendos ultro se efficiunt, et injuriam ab nobis repulsam, tamquam aut facere aut pati necesse sit, injungimus aliis.’ INDEX. Achæan, curious mode of warfare, 131 Alexander II. of Russia, 3, 10 Armed neutrality, the, 86 Armour, 55, 224 Ashantee battle song, 86 Balloonists in war, 148 Battles, allusions to: Agincourt, 201, 262 Bouvines, 194 Camperdown, 80 Crecy, 9, 54 Dover, 84 Musselborough, 56 Navarette, 59 Neerwinden, 6 Nicopoli, 56 Nile, 81 Otterbourne, 196 Pavia, 141 Poitiers, 207 Tel-el-Kebir, 253 Bearskin hats, 223, 224 Becon, Thomas, on military service in the sixteenth century, 208 Bishops in war, 35, 52-3, 193-8, 261 Blinding of prisoners, 42-3 Blockade, effective, 92 Bloodhounds used in war, 171-2 Bombardment, theory and practice of, 12, 15, 17, 106, 116 Bounties for scalps, 156 Brigand, meaning of, 57 Britons, love for military life, 156 Brussels Conference on laws of war, 10, 94, 95, 105, 123, 130, 141-6-7-8, 158 Bullinger, limits to right of military service, 208, 263 Cannons, 5 Cannon-shot oath, 130 Capitulations, 100-1 Chain-shot, 6 Chivalry, age of, 32