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Discipline. Standing in a proper position. Young soldiers for

the East Indies.-The Articles of War in the army and the navy.

-The Sentinel and St. Paul's Cathedral. - Mutilation among foreign

troops. The reckless Irishman. His mad freak. His light-

hearted observation. His sentence. - Discipline on board the At-

alanta. The selfish severity of a sea captain.

Alexander the Great. Frederick the Great.

Charles XII. —

Peter the Great. Buonaparte. - Duke of Marlborough. — Hastings.

-Bannockburn.-Cressy.-Poictiers.-Agincourt.-Bosworth Field.

Culloden. — Prague.-Quebec.-Battles of Marathon,

Thermopylæ, and the siege of Troy. - Preparation for a battle.-

The battle array. - General De Zeithen. Monument of Peter the

Great.-Duke of Marlborough.

Uniforms. - Old Admirals in the Naval Gallery at Greenwich.

Admiral Forbes and the Duke of Bedford. - Dress of an admiral of

the fleet. Captains and commanders. — Full dress of the officers

of the life-guards. — Dragoon-guards. — Light dragoons. — Lancers.

-Hussars. - King George the Fourth and the life-guardsman.

Full dress of the officers of the foot-guards. — Infantry of the line.

-Light infantry.-Fusiliers.-Highlanders.-Riflemen.—Sir Samuel

Hood and the new-made boatswain.

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Bows and arrows. The old archer.-The musket.-The

bayonet. Captain Von Selmnitz.- Broad-swords.—Highlanders.—

-Brass twenty-four-

George. The brass sixty-

naparte and Colonel Evain. - Wooden cannon.-

pounder from the wreck of the Royal

eight-pounder in the Tower, called the

mortar. The new destructive power.

Great Harry.'-A beautiful

The passionate soldier. —A blue-jacket paying his debts.-A mon-

key on board.—A ship.- Keel.—Decks.-Masts.-Sails.—Rigging.

-Life-boat. Cables. Anchors. - Capstan.-Buoys.-Blocks.—

Knotting. Quadrant. The Indian and his fine clothes. His

return home. His relation of his adventures.-The indignation of

his tribe. His tragical end.

An engineer.-Mining.-Sappers.-Gunners.-The Surveillante.

-Loss in the British army.-Furlough.-Muster-roll.-Punishment.

-Poor Jack sent aloft.-Captain Hall on naval punishments. - In-

stance of injustice to a seaman. The captain proved to be in the

wrong.-Tribute to the brave.-Letter of a private soldier.-The

Tenth and the Imperial guards.

Fortification. — Surprise of Bergen-up-Zoom.—Six hundred British

troops lay down their arms from a want of knowledge of fortification.—

Fortified places in England and abroad. · On the origin of fortifica-

tion. The battering-ram. - Parapets-Embrasures-Square towers

- Bastions - Horn-works Curtains.-

Old plan of fortifying a place

plan. - Periods of attack. Investment or blockade described.

Parallels.-Circumvallation and countervallation.-What is necessary

- Terraces or ramparts

Maxims in fortification.

to ensure the reduction of a fortress. — Blockade of Pamplona.-A

bombardment, siege, and storming party described.

The tale-telling captain. — The heroic and kind-hearted officer.

The standard-bearer.-Flags.-The royal standard.—Flag of the lord

high-admiral.—Flag of the admiral of the fleet.-Colours in the army.

—Day signals. —Night signals.—Fog-signals.—Cipher flags and sub-

stitutes.-Telegraphs.— Alphabet for field signals. — Description of a

sailor on shore.

Tippoo Saib. His armour and

Seringapatam attacked by British

and native troops, commanded by Major-General Baird. Colonels

Dunlop and Sherbrooke. A shot breaks the chain of the draw-

-Terrible carnage.

Tippoo Saib killed.

taken. The storming of Ghuznee. — The forlorn hope. The gate

of the fortress blown in. - Colonel Dennie leads on the stormers.

The mistake. A retreat sounded. — Brigadier Sale advances.-Des-

perate struggle. The place taken.

Tactics and stratagems of war. — - Captain Bentley and Captain

Baines. - The defiance.- Scaling the rock.

The stratagem of the

Battle of Actium. - Duke of Saxe Weimar. - Breaking the

The Prussian General. - Ibrahim Pasha. - The old Der-

Attacks. Attempts.

vise. - War terms.

Sea-fights. Storms.-Sieges.

- Surprises. — Skirmishes. — Repulses. — Explosions. - Three-fin-

Motto for a soldier. — Glory. — Reply to a challenge.—The carica-

ture.-Discharges.-A picquet, sentinel, vedette, advanced guard, and

flag of truce.-Crossing rivers.-Presentations.-Camps of instruction.

-Comfort of a cigar.-Tribute to the brave.

Algiers. Admiral Keppel and the Dey.-The expedition of Lord

Exmouth against Algiers. The Christian slaves are set free, and

such slavery abolished for ever.—'

-The French at Algiers.-The taking

of Jean D'Acre by Sir Robert Stopford. The explosion of the pow-

der magazine. The mistake made by the garrison. The operations

The siege of Antwerp, by

The daring young soldier.

Marshal Gerard. — Desperate defence of General Chassé

The Duke of Wellington. Remarks. The Waterloo banquet at

Apsley House. Salter's celebrated painting. The names of the

generals and officers at the banquet. - Anecdote of Apsley House.

George the Second and the old soldier. — The old apple-woman

and the lord-chancellor. The legacy. - The Duke of Wellington's

generosity. Major-general Macdonnel's noble conduct. — Sergeant-

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Buonaparte. His principal play-thing.-Napoleon's grotto.—Buo-

naparte's gratitude to his mother. He goes to the Military School at

Paris.—Made a lieutenant.— His first military service.—His address

to the men under his command. His conduct to poor tradesmen. -

Reproof to his generals. — The Jaffa massacre.— Murder of the Duke

d'Enghein. - Legion of honour. -Buonaparte threatens to invade

England. — French invincibles.— An instance of generosity.— Napo-

leon's bravery. - Battle of the Pyramids.-The battle of Lodi.-

Napoleon's return from Elba. Campaign in Russia. Allusion to

Waterloo. -Buonaparte dies at St. Helena. The 18th of October a

remarkable day.

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Captain-general of the army.-Commander-in-chief.—Lord high-

admiral of the navy. —Field-marshal.-General.-Lieutenant-general.

-Major-general. Brigadier-general.-Colonel.-Lieutenant-colonel.

Sergeant-Major.-Captain. —Lieutenant.—

-Major.- Adjutant.

Ensign and cornet.-Sergeant and corporal.—A round-robbin.—Quar-

ter-master. Military saying.— Officer's daughter. - Officers of the

navy.-Marines.—Catamaran.-Crew of a first-rate.— Royal George.

Regimental bands.
Drum.- Trumpet.-Bugle.-Kettle-drum of

the life-guards.-Kettle-drum of the royal artillery.-Qualities in Bri-

tish soldiers.-The Rhine! The Rhine !-Love of country.-Coward-

ice.-Death of Admiral Byng.-Native cavalry in India.-Daring in-

trepidity of a seaman. - Preparations for an engagement.

the Nile. Superstitious seamen.-Saragossa.—Missolonghi.

Admiral Nelson. The loss of his eye and his arm.

tween Nelson's barge and the armed launch.--Sykes the coxswain.-

Nelson's thanksgiving for his recovery. His coolness in danger.

Battle of Copenhagen.—Hewson the seaman. — Battle of the Nile. -

Nelson's prayer before the battle of Trafalgar. - His signals on board

the Victory. His wound.-His death.

De Ruyter.- Van Tromp. - Columbus. — Vasquez da Gama. -

Villeneuve. Tom of Ten Thousand. — Hawkins, Drake, Blake,

Hawke. Rodney. A female soldier. — Vincent, on the 14th of

February. Duncan, off Camperdown. - Admiral Howe, and the

glorious First of June. -Maitland's generosity.-Viscount Exmouth,

his courage and humanity.-Codrington and the battle of Navarino.-

The flag of old England.

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