564 



INDEX. 



Richards, Major, 517 



Rienzi, puts Montreal to death, 2.'1 



Rifled barrel, the, 226, 227 



Rifled fire-arms, introduction of, 425 



Riflemen, use of, in America, 346, 347 



Rifles, e(Ti(-t of, on cavalry, 433 



Robert of Ncrmnndy, 169, 175 



Robert of Artois. C ant, 212 



Eochefort, '^uiw. <ip, anecdote of 



Seidlitz. 3..), S21 

 Rochow, Geneva]. ?% 

 Rocquencourt, sur] I'so of. 411 

 Rocroy, battle of. •/%, 2dl 

 Rodolph II., the iim^iror. C"; 

 Roi Truand, the, 173 

 Roman cavalry, 46 ; at the close of the 



second Punic war, 83 

 Roman de Ron, the, 160 

 Romulus, organisation of his cavalry, 



47 

 Rosbach, battle of, 321, 328, 329 

 Rosenberg, General, 381 

 Rostof, destroyed by Mongols, 187 

 Rostopchin, Governor of Moscow, 541 

 Rentiers, 199 

 Roveredo, battle of, 353 

 Ruchel, General, 373 

 Rudiger, General, 419 

 Rumiautzofi', 342, 343 

 Rupert, Prince, 268-270 

 Rurik, 179 



Russell, Sir William at Zutphen, 247 

 Russia, early cavaliy of, 178 

 Russian cavalry, 273 ; under Alexander 



I., 387-409 ; composition in 1810, 



.^87; in latter part of 18th centuiy, 



341-343 

 Russians, defensive arms of, 181 

 Russian Tablets, the, 273 

 Rysta, the, 307 



S. 



Saar, action at, 488 



Saargemnnd, 495 



Sabiues, the, 51 



Sacken's corps, 39.3 



Saddles, 70; first mentioned, 153; pro- 

 jections added, 153 ; time of Leon, 

 134 ; Hungarian, used by Russian 

 Light Cavalry, 342, 343 



Sailor's Creek, battle of, 480, 481 



Saladin, 176, 402 ; his body guard, 176 



Salamanca, battle of, 41 ' 412 



Salo, 368 



Sand mountain, skirmish at, 462 



Sandys, Colonel, 269 



Sangipan, King of the Alans, 117 



Samtz, 301 



Saraoen armament, 170 



Saracen camps, 131 ; conquests, 130, 



131 ; '■'lain mail, 171 ; light cavalry, 



170; 'itirs, 131,170 

 Sargntiai! •. 13 

 f^.irgoii, ■; i 

 .-armavirtiis, ?9 

 Sawoiny, < ' 

 Saxe, Maisha), oOS-313 ; on sujier- 



fluous baggage, 345 ; visits Frederick, 



339 

 Scarlett's, General, charge, 429 

 Schlitz, action, ut 376 

 Schiinaich, Prince, 327 

 Schulenberg, Marshal, 301 

 Rchumla, operations round, 419 

 Schwartaw, action at, 376 

 Scindiah, 422 

 Scipio Africanus, 68, 73-76, 80, 81, 



547 ; his system of drilling, 68, 69 

 Scipio, Publius, 60, 61 

 Scott's partisan life with Mosby, 519, 



520 

 Scythia, 179 



Sebastiani's cuirassiers, 393 

 Sebastopol, 427 

 Secrecy, well maintained by Napoleon, 



383, 384 

 Sedan, march of MacMahon to, 500, 



501 ; cavalry badly handled, 501 

 Sediman, combat of, 357, 358 

 Selma, captured by Wilson, 472, 473 

 Seidlitz, General, 43, 300, 313, 314, 



819-321, 323, 328—331 

 Semenowskoie, gua'd regiment, 392 

 Sempach, battle of, 214 

 Sempronius, 63 

 Sennacherib, 14, 17 

 Seutinum, battle of, 53 

 Septimius Severus, his concession to 



his troops, 12 

 Sergents d'armes, 167 

 Serpentine, the, 226 

 Sertc:ius, Quintus, 98 

 Servian war, 506 



Services performed by esquires, 146 

 Servius Tullius, 48 

 Seslawin, 402, 403 



Seven Years' War, effect on the mili- 

 tary Art, 344 

 Severus, the Emperor Alexander, 112 

 Severus, expedition of, into Parthia, 



107 

 Sextus Tempanius, 52 

 Shelby, General, 544 

 Sheridan, General, 454, 474-484, 508 

 Shewel, Colonel, at Balaklava, 622 

 Shields, 2, 152, 171 

 Shiloh, charge of Morgan's cavalry, 



618 ; battle of, 456 

 Shoes, horse, importance of, 609 

 Shoulder straps of chain, 631 

 Silanus, Julius, 77 

 Silesia, Duke of, resists Mongols, 188 



