then the claimant to justify his first principle, and the custom of war will shake to its foundation, and in time go the way that other evil customs have gone before it, when once their moral support has been undermined or shattered.
Pavia, 141
Poitiers, 207
Tel-el-Kebir, 253 Bearskin hats, 223, 4
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 5, 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,
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,
Malta, siege of, 97
Meaux, surrender of, 45, 101 Mirandola, s ege 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
Soldiers of mark:
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,
WAR, real character of, 27, 186, 210 Wa's, 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, 33
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
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