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1 II. Hastings 9 III. The Barons' War 28 IV. Falkirk and Bannockburn 40 Intermediate Note—The Long-Bow 51 V. Crecy and Poitiers 54 VI. Agincourt and Orleans 80 VII. The Wars of the Roses 101 Intermediate Note—Gunpowder 115 VIII. Flodden 118 IX. The Great Civil War 128 Intermediate Note—Standing Armies 151 X. Marlborough 153 Intermediate Note—Line versus Column 175 XI. The Eighteenth Century 179 XII. The Peninsula. Part I.—Defensive 197 XIII. The Peninsula. Part II.—Offensive 215 XIV. Waterloo 237 XV. The Crimea 264 Intermediate Note—Inferior Races 288 XVI. India. Part I.—Conquest 295 XVII. India. Part II.—Supremacy 305 Appendix: Battles Described 323     "      Mentioned 324 Sieges 324 Index 325

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