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Read Ebook: A History of the British Army Vol. 2 First Part—to the Close of the Seven Years' War by Fortescue J W John William Sir
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PAGE The Reduction of the Army 3
Mischievous influence of Bolingbroke and Ormonde 3
Death of Queen Anne; Return of Marlborough 4
The Jacobite Rebellion of 1715 5
Increase of the Army; Ninth to Fourteenth Dragoons raised 6
Chelsea Pensioners recalled; Forty-first Foot raised 6
Sheriffmuir and Preston 7
Reduction of the Army, 1717-1718 8
War with Spain 8
Invasion of Scotland; Action of Glenshiel 9
Attack on Vigo 10
Death of Marlborough 10
His Funeral 11
The Army the only force for Maintenance of Order 15
The cry of No Standing Army 15
The British Establishment Fixed by Walpole 17
Attacks on the Army in Parliament 17
Opposition to the Mutiny Act 18
Parliament asks for the Articles of War 19
Officers cashiered for Political Disobligations 20
Omnipotence of the irresponsible Secretary-at-War 21
Hostility of Civilians against Soldiers 24
Discipline ruined by the Secretary-at-War's Supremacy 26
King George's efforts to arrest Indiscipline and Peculation 29
His dislike of Purchase 30
General Apathy of Officers 31
Bad Standard of Character among Recruits 32
Desertion and Fraudulent Enlistment 32
Other Scandals 34
System of Imperial Defence 36
The Colonies; "White Servants" 37
Gradual necessity for Increasing the Regular Garrisons in the Colonies 42
Helplessness of the War Office in face of the problem 42
Unpopularity of Garrison Service Abroad 45
Technical Improvements in the Army 48
Royal Regiment of Artillery formed 49
Rise of the Forty-second Highlanders 49
Contemporary Reforms in Prussia 51
Their Evil Influence in England 51
The Officers of the Past and of the Future 53
Waning of Walpole's Popularity 55
The Quarrel with Spain 55
Popularity of a Spanish War 57
An Expedition to the Spanish Main resolved on 58
The Preparations; Cathcart and Wentworth 59
Incredible Mismanagement of the War Office 60
Death of Cathcart 62
The British and American Contingents meet at Jamaica 62
Decision to Attack Carthagena 63
The Operations begun; Vernon and Wentworth 64
The Attack on Fort St. Lazar 68
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