TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAP.PAGE
I.Introductory[1]
II.Hastings[9]
III.The Barons' War[28]
IV.Falkirk and Bannockburn[40]
Intermediate Note—The Long-Bow[51]
V.Crecy and Poitiers[54]
VI.Agincourt and Orleans[80]
VII.The Wars of the Roses[101]
Intermediate Note—Gunpowder[115]
VIII.Flodden[118]
IX.The Great Civil War[128]
Intermediate Note—Standing Armies[151]
X.Marlborough[153]
Intermediate Note—Line versus Column[175]
XI.The Eighteenth Century[179]
XII.The Peninsula. Part I.—Defensive[197]
XIII.The Peninsula. Part II.—Offensive[215]
XIV.Waterloo[237]
XV.The Crimea[264]
Intermediate Note—Inferior Races[288]
XVI.India. Part I.—Conquest[295]
XVII.India. Part II.—Supremacy[305]
Appendix:Battles Described[323]
" Mentioned[324]
Sieges[324]
Index[325]