A HISTORY OF INFANTRY. FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT. BY H. B. STUART, LIEUT. BENGAL ARMY. LONDON: BERNARD QUARITCH, 15 PICCADILLY. KF 1620 NARYZED COULESE INDRARY MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY Nov. 10,1938 G. NORMAN, PRINTER, MAIDEN LANE, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON. IN writing this little book, I have not attempted to aspire to any high standard of professional merit, or to a too technical treatment of the subject; partly from a consciousness of inability to do so, and partly from a knowledge, that pure military works find few readers among the British public. France, Germany, Italy, and in fact almost every civilised nation of the past or the present time, has produced a military literature, while England, whose flag is ever carrying on a chronic warfare, in some one quarter or other of the globe, has never done so. The neglect of military literature hitherto, in this country, has doubtless been owing to the fact that we were a "nation of shopkeepers," but since-following the example of our continental neighbours-we have been arming ourselves in our own constitutional fashion, it might reasonably be expected that the thirst for military knowledge would be on the in crease. In this expectation, myself, and naturally the publisher of this little book, both participate; and without being too sanguine, we venture to attempt, what is truly and without any pretension, a labour of love. London, November, 1861. VI. ENGLISH INFANTRY. From the Battle of Hastings, 1066, to the end of the Lancastrian Dynasty, 1461. VII. POST-FEUDAL PERIOD. From the Creation of Standing Armies, 1445, to the reign of Francis I., 1515 IX. SPANISH INFANTRY. From the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, 1474, to the Battle of Rocroi, 1643. X. FRENCH INFANTRY. From the reign of Francis I. to the commencement of the Thirty Years' War, 1618 71 XI. SWEDISH INFANTRY. Thirty Years' War, 1618 to 1648 79 XII. FRENCH INFANTRY. From the latter end of the Thirty Years' War, 1640, to the Seven Years' War, 1756 XIII. PRUSSIAN INFANTRY. From the accession of the Great Elector, 1640, to the death of Frederic the Great, 86 110 121 |