INDEX. 



563 



Pikes revived by Napoleon, 360, 361 

 Pikes, use of as lances, at Damietta, 



177 

 Pikemen, Swiss, 204, 509 ; under Gus- 



tavus Adolphus, 256 

 Pillow, General, 455 

 Pisistratidffi, 22 

 Pistol, invention of, 235 ; derivation 



of word, 235 ; first introduction into 



England, 235 ; used at Cerisoles in 



1544, 235 ; used by Reitres at St. 



Quentin, 235 ; German system of 



using, 236 

 Pizarro, 254, 540 

 Platsea, battle of, 19 

 Platseans, the, 21 

 Plate armour, introduction of, 193, 



194 

 Platoff, the Hetman, 378, 387, 390, 



399, 400, 403 

 Ploskina, the Voievode, 274 

 Plutarch, 22 

 Podultz, village of, 486 

 Poictiers, or Tours, battle of, 127, 130 

 Poitiers, battle of, 199, 208, 214 

 Poitou, Seneschal de, 221 

 Poitou, garrison of, 221 

 Poland, early cavalry, of 178 ; arms, 



tactics, &c. of, 182 

 Polish army, 182 

 Polish lancers, organised by Napoleon, 



365 ; their arms, &c., 366 

 Polish war, 258 ; of 1830-31, 418- 



420 

 Polovtsi, attacked by Mongols, 187 

 Polybius, 53 

 Pomppv, 87, 88, 609 

 Ponsonoy, Sir W., 415 

 Poolesviile, skirmish at, 452 

 Pope, General, 450 

 Pope Urban II., 168 

 Potemkin, Prince, 342, 343 

 Prague, battle of, 327, 332 

 Preutzlow, action at, 375 

 Preobazinski, guard regiment, 392 

 Procopius, views of, on archers, 115 

 Propoyske, skirmish at, 307 

 Prussia, the king of, 395, 396 

 Prussian cavalry, imitation of it by all 



nations, 340 ; time of Niipoleon, 



410, 411 

 Provisioning an army, 170 

 Pultowa, battle of, 301-303, 306 

 Pultusk, battle of, 376 

 Pursuit, Napoleon's vigour in, 368 

 Pyramids, the battle of the, 355-357 



QUASDANOVITCH, 368 



Quesnoy, siege of, 352 



Raglan, Lord, 427 

 Raids — 



Morgan's into Kentucky, 1862, 



446 

 Morgan's upon Gallatin, 447 

 Moi^an's into Ohio, 448, 449 

 Stuart's round McClellan's army, 



449, 450 

 Stuart's on Catlett's station, 460 

 Stuart's through Pennsylvania, 



451-454 

 Forrest's on Memphis, 460, 461 

 Grierson's in Mississippi, 466 

 Stoneman's in Virginia, 467, 468 

 Wilson's through Alabama, 469 

 Ramanieh, skirmish at, 355 

 Ramilies, battle of, 296, 297 

 Randolph, 207 

 Rapatel, killed at Fere Champenoise, 



397 

 Rapidan station, action at, 467 

 Rapp, General, 399 

 Ratisbon, cavalry action at, 380 

 Ratisbon, 410 



Ranch, General, 500 « 



Raymond of Toulouse, 169, 178, 176 

 Reconnoitring, 134 

 Red Cossacks, 395 

 Redor.ot captured by cuirofisiera at 



Borodino, 392, 393 

 Red River Expedition, 180 

 Reduction in size of regiments by 



Gustavus Adolphus, 257 

 Reforms in cavalry in Austria, 484 ; 

 effected by Gustavus Adolphus, 256, 

 257 ; in cavalry in Prussia, 436 ; iu 

 cavalry in Russia, 434 

 Regillus, battle of Lake, 51 

 Regiments, organised in Spain, 248 

 Regular armies, introduction of, 220 

 Regulations for Frederick's cavalry, 316 

 Reitres, German, use pistols, 236 

 Religion ind love ruling sentiments of 



chivalry, 148, 149 

 Renzel, Lieutenant-Gcneral, 302 

 Retreat of French from Moscow, 400- 



403 

 Revolutionaiy wars of America and 



France, 344-361 

 Revolving pistols, 209, 227 

 Revolver, charges with, 461 ; use tff 

 at Balaklava, 431 ; use of, 506, 616- 

 619, 522, 523 ; views of Colonel 

 Gilmor, 519 ; views of General S. D. 

 Leo, 618, 619 

 Reyss Achmet Pacha, 431 

 Rheinfeld, Field-Marshal, 803 

 Richard Coeur-de-Lion, 176, 177, V96, 



402 

 Kichmond, evacuated, 479 



