I wish to express my great appreciation of the courtesy of the Colonel and the Officers of the Lancashire Fusiliers (20th), South Wales Borderers (24th), and the Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire) Regiment (14th), in allowing me to sketch the uniforms of their men from the interesting histories of their respective regiments, and to E. C. Brett, Esq., for permitting me to copy the suits of armour that I have chosen as types from his father’s magnificent volume on Arms and Armour.

Kingsclear, Camberley,
March 1897.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE
I.The Army of the People—to 1100[1]
II.The Army of the Nobles—to 1500[14]
III.The Puritan Host[35]
IV.The Army of the King—to 1701[55]
V.Marlborough and his Men—to 1714[72]
VI.The Embers of the Civil War—to 1755[87]
VII.The Army in America—to 1793[107]
VIII.The Army at Sea—to 1815[128]
IX.The Peninsular Army: (a) Its Making—1793–1808[155]
X.The Peninsular Army: (b) Its Training—1808–1811[173]
XI.The Peninsular Army: (c) Its Reward—1811–1814[191]
XII.The Army in the Netherlands—Waterloo, 1815[206]
XIII.The Army after the Long Peace—The Crimea, 1854[236]
XIV.The Army in India: (a) The East India Company, Its Rise—1600–1825[264]
XV.The Army in India: (b) The Fall of the Company and Afterwards—1825–1858[277]
XVI.The Army in India: (c) The Army of the Queen-Empress—1858–1896[318]
XVII.The Army in the Far East—1819–1875[336]
XVIII.The Army in South and West Africa—1834–1836[351]
XIX.The Army in North Africa—1867–1896[374]
XX.The Army as it is[396]
Appendix I.—The Principal Campaigns and Battles of the British Army since 1658[407]
Appendix II.—The List of Regiments with their Present and Former Titles[411]
Appendix III.—List of Badges, Mottoes, and Nicknames of the Army[416]
Index[424]

LIST OF MAPS, PLANS, AND ILLUSTRATIONS

LEADERS
PAGE
Field-Marshal Viscount Wolseley, K.P., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., etc.[Frontispiece]
The Duke of Marlborough (from an old print)[73]
The Duke of Wellington[209]
ARMOUR
Norman (from the Bayeux Tapestry)[10]
Plate Armour, circa 1500[23]
Plate Armour at Barnet, 1471[29]
Half Armour, 1640[35]
UNIFORMS
Private Soldier, 14th Regiment, 1712[72]
Private Soldier, 24th Regiment, 1751[104]
Private Soldier, 14th Regiment, 1792[126]
Private Soldier, 20th Regiment, 1812[200]
Private Soldier, 24th Regiment, 1840[239]
Officer, Light Company, 20th Regiment, 1853[260]
Private Soldier, 14th Regiment, 1864[322]
Private Soldier, 24th Regiment, 1879[370]
BATTLES
The Lines of Battle at Barnet, 1471[32]
The Lines of Battle at Naseby, 1645[43]
The Lines of Battle at Blenheim, 1704[77]
The Lines of Battle at Waterloo, 1815[228]
The Lines of Battle at Tel el Kebir, 1882[383]
GENERAL MAPS
England and Wales[5]
Hastings[7]
Quebec[111]
Spanish Peninsula[173]
Salamanca[198]
Belgium and Waterloo[208]
Crimea[250]
India[266]
ARMS
Muskets, etc.[125]
Field Artillery[38]
Spears and Swords[231]