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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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The Attack on Fort St. Lazar 68
Frightful Condition of the Troops 72
The Enterprise against Carthagena abandoned 73
Descent upon Cuba 74
The Descent abandoned; continued Mortality among the Troops 75
The Spanish War ended by Yellow Fever 76
Anson's Voyage 77
Wentworth's responsibility for the disasters of Carthagena 77
The blame due also to the War Office and Ordnance Office 78
Faction in Parliament the true secret of the catastrophe 79
Dispute over the Austrian Succession 80
Aggression of Frederick the Great 81
Ambitious Projects of France 81
England sends aid to Queen Maria Theresa 81
Army increased; Forty-third to Forty-eighth Regiments raised 82
John, Earl of Stair 83
His Advice and his Plans 84
The Campaign of 1742 86
Stair's Plans for the winter rejected 87
The British Army marches to the Main 88
Fresh Projects of Stair rejected 89
He forms new Plans 90
He disobeys Orders to prove their soundness 91
Desperate Peril of the Allies owing to disregard of his counsel 92
Battle of Dettingen 92
Stair resigns the Command 102
Insufficiency of the British Preparations for 1744 103
Saxe's Operations 104
Wade paralysed by the Dutch and Austrians 105
Stair's Plan of Campaign 106
Inactivity of Dutch and Austrians; Wade Resigns 107
Ligonier's proposals for a great effort in 1745 108
Cumberland appointed to the Command 109
The French Position at Fontenoy 110
Battle of Fontenoy 111
Cumberland's False Movements after Fontenoy 121
Extreme Peril of his situation 122
Recall of the Army to England 123
Designs of Charles Stuart 124
His Landing in Scotland 125
General Cope marches northward 126
He Retires by Sea; Advance of the Rebels 127
The "Canter of Coltbrigg" 128
Cope Lands at Dunbar; Action of Prestonpans 129
Charles enters Edinburgh; the Castle holds out 131
Preparations in England 132
Charles invades England 133
He out-manoeuvres Cumberland and enters Derby 136
He retreats northward and besieges Stirling 137
Hawley appointed to Command in Scotland 138
Action of Falkirk 139
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