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
• Church, influence of, on war, 52, 185-193, 204-16, 252
• Churches, destruction of, 48
• Church parade, 219
• Cities, fate of, in war:
• Amiens, surprise of, 148
• Badajoz, storming of, 27
• Barcelona, siege of, 138
• Brescia, storming of, 103
• Calais, siege of, 44
• Constantine, storming of, 27
• Copenhagen, bombardment of, 15, 268
• Dinant, storming of, 102
• Gaza, storming of, 107
• Grammont, massacre at, 35
• Gravelines, massacre at, 36
• Haarlem, siege of, 97
• Liège, storming of, 102
• Limoges, massacre at, 37
• Londonderry, siege of, 197-8
• Magdeburg, massacre at, 27, 112
• Malta, siege of, 97
• Meaux, surrender of, 45, 101
• Mirandola, siege of, 197
• Oudenarde, siege of, 47
• Pekin, English at, 237
• Persepolis, burning of, 108
• Poitiers, massacre at, 34
• Rome, sack of, 103
• Rouen, surrender of, 47, 101
• San Sebastian, storming of, 28
• Strasburg, bombardment of 15, 17, 106
• Terouanne, destruction of, 137
• Thebes, sack of, 103
• Toledo, siege of, 42
• Tyre, siege of, 108
• Ulm, surprise of, 149
• Washington, English in, 16
• Conference stratagem, 136
• Conscription, the, 242-8
• Consecration of banners, 201
• Contraband, 88
• Contributions, military, 20, 118
• Costume, military, 222-3
• Crossbow, 4, 133
• Cruelty and courage, 110
• Custom of war, character of, 186, 210
• Decimation, story of, 222
• Declaration of Paris, 73, 78, 86-9
• Declaration of St. Petersburg, 2, 3, 81
• Declaration of war, 19, 198
• Desertion, 230-1
• Discipline, 7, 218, 234, 236
• Dress, philosophy of military, 229
• Duty, 74, 121, 264
• Embargoes, 89
• Explosive bullets, 1-2, 81
• False flag, stratagem of the, 128-130
• False information in war, 152
• Fecials, Roman, 271
• Firearms, feeling against, 5, 226
• Fireships, 84-5
• Flogging, 234-5
• Forged despatches, 151
• Free Companies, 60, 260
• Free ships, free goods, 87
• Fruit-trees, 16, 17, 47, 161
• Germans, the, in war, 40, 106, 115-9
• Greek fire, 83-4
• Grenadiers, 223
• Hanging in war, 44-7
• Honour, variable notions of, 155-6, 267
• Hostages, taking of, revived, 117
• Innocent III., 206
• Invention of the bayonet, 6
• Jomini, Baron, President of Brussels Conference, 95
• Julius II., story of, 196
• Jus Angariæ, 90
• Justice in war, 208, 258-9, 271, 273-80
• Khonds, theory of war, 203
• Kidnapping soldiers in Germany, 241
• Kissing the earth, custom of, 201
• Lateran Council, Third, 4
• Laws of war among savages, 159
• Lent, observation of, in war, 51, 205
• Leo the Great, 204
• Letters of marque, 74, 78
• Letters, military contempt for, 156
• Limoges, Council of, 203
• Loha Pennu, an Indian war-god, 203
• Macedonian warfare, 133
• Magic, use of, in war, 199
• Malingering, 231-4
• Marriage, restrictions on, 218-9
• Mercenary service, 260-3
• Military cant, 21, 105-6, 118, 163
• — vandalism, 16, 48, 163, 237
• Missionaries, 176-182
• — failure of, 177
• — legal control of, 181
• Missionaries, Norwegian, in Zululand, 179
• Mission stations destroyed, 180
• Mozley, Canon, on war, 212
• Musket, 5, 133
• Mutiny Act, first, 265
• Names of weapons, 200
• Neutral ships and property, 86
• Night attacks, 133
• Numbers slain in war, 8-10
• Oath, military, 264-5
• Oath by cannon-shot, 130
• Ophthalmia, artificial, 233
• Palatinate, devastation of the, 17, 267
• Pay, soldiers’, 239, 261
• Perfidy, cases of, 135
• Perjury, cases of, 139
• Perpetual peace, Von Moltke on, 119
• Piracy, 67-70, 255
• Plunder of property at sea, 67-70
• Plunder of property on land, 61-3, 66, 118
• Poison, use of, in war, 13, 14, 172-3
• Poisoning the air, 49
• Poisoning water, 14, 29
• Press, influence of, in war, 112, 177, 182, 253
• Prisoners, treatment of, 17, 18, 40, 85, 99, 113
• Prisoners, beheaded, 97, 106
• — blinded, 43
• — burnt, 103, 111
• — drowned, 101-2-6
• — hung, 46, 101-3
• — maimed, 43, 103
• — massacred, 41, 111
• — tortured, 194
• Privateering, 70-9
• — Lord Nelson on, 77
• Prizes and prize-money, 70
• Prize Court, 76
• Punishments, military, 221-6
• Purificatory battle rites, 250
• Pursers on privateers, 76
• Recruiting, difficulty of, 240
• — former system of, in France and Germany, 241
• Red, the military colour, 223
• Red-hot shot, 5, 83
• Reprisals, 93-118
• — savage German, 117-8
• Right of search, 88
• Right of wreck, 89
• Roman warfare, 114, 132, 271-2
• Sacred buildings in war, 16, 48-9
• Sea battles, 80, 83
• Scalping enemies, 170
• Sentry-go, 229
• Slavery, influence of its cessation on war, 112
• Socialism, chief cause of, 245-8
• Soldiers of mark:
• Alaric, 204
• Alexander the Great, 107-10, 133
• Barbarossa, 100
• Bayard, 6, 57, 149, 151, 165, 201, 226, 273
• Bertrand du Guesclin, 40-1, 44
• Black Prince, the, 37, 59
• Blücher, 16, 17
• Cæsar, 98, 156, 169, 272
• Catinat, 145
• Chandos, Sir John, 55
• Charles of Anjou, 100
• Charles the Bold, 111
• Charles XII. of Sweden, 133, 226
• Crillon, 22, 73, 243
• Custine, 145
• David, king of the Jews, 111, 251
• David I. of Scotland, 111
• Des Adretz, 111
• Edward I., 106
• Edward III., 44
• Eugene, Prince, 149
• Feuquières, 97, 138, 149
• Francis I., 140
• Francis de Vere, 104
• Frederick the Great, 16, 142
• Genseric, 205
• Godfrey de Bouillon, 100
• Gustavus Adolphus, 19-20, 22, 221
• Henri Quatre, 30
• Henry V., 101
• Keppel, Admiral, 270
• Manny, Sir Walter, 44, 57
• Maurice, Prince, 150
• Montluc, 107, 121, 133, 137, 145, 156
• Moltke, 119
• Orange, Prince of, 152
• Parma, Prince of, 146
• Pélissier, 165
• Peterborough, Lord, 138
• Pyrrhus, 157
• Richard I., 111, 195
• Saxe, Marshal, 226
• Scipio, 146
• Sertorius, 143, 145
• Sully, 30
• Suwarrow, 238
• Wellington, Duke of, 20, 236
• Wolseley, Lord, 143-4, 151, 244
• Xerxes, 47, 99, 146
• Spaniards in war, 40, 42, 97, 167-9, 200
• Spies, 141-8
• Vattel on, 141
• Frederick the Great on, 142
• Lord Wolseley on, 143-4
• Storming cities, 27, 238
• Surprises, 148-9
• Surrender at discretion, 45, 100, 123
• Ternate, island of, 131
• Torpedoes, first use of, 5
• — introduced into European warfare, 85
• Treatise on Tactics by Leo VI., 83
• Truce of God, 205
• War, real character of, 27, 186, 210
• Wars, abolition of private, 205, 227
• Weapons, 50
• Women, imprisoned in war, 38
• Women and children, slaughter of, 23, 33-8, 117
• Women as soldiers, 242
• Writers, &c.:
• Arrian, 109
• Bluntschli, 127
• Bynkershoeck, 14, 127
• Cicero, 114, 126
• Descartes, 254
• Dobritzhoffer, 160
• Emerigon, 73
• Erasmus, 186, 244
• Froissart, 23
• Frontinus, 134
• Grotius, 14, 17, 23, 126, 187, 256, 258, 273
• Hallam, 32, 50
• Hautefeuille, 67
• Kant, 23, 30
• Las Casas, 167
• Molloy, 77
• Origen, 190
• Palmerston, Lord, 227
• Penn, 173
• Polyænus, 135
• Quintus Curtius, 109
• St. Pierre, Abbé, 30
• Sepulveda, 167
• Tertullian, 189
• Turner, Sir James, 259
• Valin, 73
• Vattel, 14, 18, 21, 73, 104-5, 139, 141, 266
• Vauban, 15
• Victor Hugo, 252
• Voltaire, 210, 267-8
• Whewell, 67
• Wycliffe, 193
• Zwingli, 263

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