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INDEX. 



compagnies d'ordonr ance, 221 ; raises 



corps of archers, 223 

 Chasseurs d'Afiique, 4th, 430 

 Chassenrs-k-cheval of Napoleon, 365 

 Chateauguay, battle of, 437 

 Chattanooga, 459 

 Chavchavadzy, Prince, 431, 432 

 Chazot, General, 351 

 Chevaux legers, 277 

 Chickahominy River, 449 

 Chickamauga, use of mounted rifles, 



537 ; battle of, 458, 469 

 Chiffa, battle of, 424 

 Childeric I., horseshoes found in the 



tomb of, 73 

 China, chariots in, 6 ; invaded by 



Mongols, 184, 185 

 Chivalry, great hold of, 172 ; origin of, 



141, 142 ; La Curne de Ste. Palaye 



on, 142; rules for admission to, 144 

 Cissians, 18 

 Cities, begin to raise armies, 192 ; 



growth of, 191 ; liberties of, ibid. 

 Citizens go into the cavalry, 138 

 City Point, 475, 476 

 Civil wars in England, 268 

 Clerembault, General, 500 

 Clitus saves life of Alexander the Great, 



36 

 Clovis, 96 

 Club, the, 2 

 Cnteus Domitius, 87 

 Coats of mail, 149, 150 

 Cohorts, 73 



Coligny at St. Denis, 239, 240 

 Coitus revolver, 438, 441, 445 

 Columbus, taken by General "Wilson, 



473 

 Column, institution of, 349, 350 ; in- 

 vented by Gustavus, 257 

 Commission to reorganise Russian 



army, 341 

 Compagnies d'ordonnance, 221, 222 ; 



their organisation and armament, 



228 

 Company, the Great, 201 

 Comparison between the Austrian and 



Prussian cavalry and the American, 



491 

 Conde, the " Great," 280-285 

 Condottieri, 199 

 Conrad Lando commands " the Great 



Company," 201 

 Conscription, adopted in France, 347 

 Constautine, the Emperor, 114, 115 

 Constantine,the Grand Duke, 389, 396, 



403 

 Constantino Porphyrogenetus, Em- 

 peror, 273 

 Constantinople, 169, 180 

 Con Stan tiun, 116 

 Consular Guard, the, 364 



Convoy of Loevenhaupt taken, 307 



Corbineau, General, gallant conduct of, 

 at Culm, 394 



Corinth, attack upon, 28 



Cornet, the, its strength, 247 



Cornet, under Chi\rles V., 248 



Corps d'armee organised, 347, 348 



Cortez in Mexico, 251, 540 



Cosaquie, 273 



Cossacks, the, '^73-275 ; 887, 388, 390, 

 393, 396, 39>s,, 399, 400, 401, 405, 

 407, 408, 409 , immerse value of, 

 376-379; under Peter the Great, 

 306 



Cosse, Marshal, at Moncontour, 240 



Cotereaux, 199 



Cotton, Sir Stapleton, 411, 412 



Count, title of, 123 



Couraltai, 185 



Courtrai, battle of, 212 



Courtras, battle of, 240 ; infantry and 

 cavalry intermixed at, 240 



Coutillier, the, 155 



Coutts, Lord, 293 



Crassus, 98-102, 109, 402 



Crassus Publius, 101-103 



Crecy, battle of, 199, 208-211 ; cross- 

 bowmen at, 205 ; English archers at, 

 209 ; marks two great epochs, 209 



Crequi, the Marquis de, 285 



Crests, 150 



Creutz, General, 419 



Crimean war, 427-432 



Croats in Austrian army, 333 ; valuable 

 light cavalry, 261 



Cromwell, his character, 268, 270, 271 



Crook, General, 481 



Crusades, the, 168 ; did not influence 

 military art, 190; effects on feudalism, 

 ibid. ; first military, 169 ; numbers 

 in, 170 ; infantry mere rabble in, 

 ibid. ; make no improvement in art of 

 war, 178 ; military art defective, 

 175 ; results of, 190-197 ; reasons of 

 revival of military art after, 194 



Cuirasses, 2, 162, 179, 531 



Cuirassiers, 245 ; established by Napo- 

 leon, 364, 365 ; of Frederick the 

 Great, 317 



Cuissards, 152 



Culm, battle of, 393 



Cunaxa, battle of, 20 



Custer, General, 481 



Cyaxares the Mede, 16, 17 



Cylindro-conoidal shot, the, 426 



Cyrus, 4, 17 



Cyrus the Great, outposts of, 109 



D. 



Daoger, the, 1 64 

 D'AIlonville, General, 430 



