BER

Berwick, Duke of, commands the
French forces, 47; enters Madrid,
85; defeats the allies at Almanza,88
Black Death, the, 197
Blenheim, battle of, preparations for
battle, 59; description of the
ground, 59; position of the armies,
61; the battle begins, 61; the
result, 65

Blenheim Palace, near Woodstock,195
Bohemia, Elector of, 33
Bolingbroke, Lord (see St. John,
Henry)

Bonn taken, 42

Bossuet, Bishop Meaux, 213
Bouchain taken, 128

Boufflers, Marshal, his defence of
Lille, 95; capitulates, 97; serves
under Villars in Flanders, 101;
named to the command at Malpla-
quet, 104

Brabant, duchy of, claims to, 15;
inclining to French, 92
Brandenburg, Elector of, 33
Brihuega, battle of, 113
Bristol, proportion of population to
London, 189
Bruges taken, 78

Brussels falls into the hands of Marl-
borough, 77

Burgundy, Duke of, commands in
Flanders, 93; defeated at Oude-
narde, 95; his education, 182; his
marriage, 182; his death, 182
Burgundy, Duchess of, her death,

182

Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, 25;
credited with the improvement of
the position of the clergy, 210
Byng, Admiral Sir George, 147

CAR

ABINET government, 123-124
Cadiz, English expedition
against, 45

Calendar, change in Russian, 155
Camisards, the, rebellion of, 50; per-
secuted by Dragonades, 52; their
retaliation, 53; severity used to
put down the rebellion, 53; appeal
to foreign governments, 53; end of
the war, 54; their bravery, 55
Campaign of 1702, 41; of 1704, 56;
of 1705, 65; of 1706, 73; of 1707,
86; of 1708, 92; of 1709, 100; of
1710, 128

Charles II. of Spain, claimants to the
throne on his death, 2; his will, 9
Charles V., Emperor, I
Charles XII., King of Sweden,

visited by Marlborough, 87; his
enemies, 158; beginning of his
reign, 158; his character, 159;
subdues Denmark and Poland,
160; defeats the Russians at
Narva, 160; arbiter of Europe,
161; his campaign against Russia,
162; defeated by Peter the Great
at Pultowa, 164; overpowered at
Bender, 166; his death, 167
Charles Emanuel, son of Victor
Amadeus, 187

Charles the Archduke, claimant to
the throne of Spain, 4; joins Lord
Peterborough, 67; refuses to enter
Madrid, 84; takes part in the
campaign of 1710, 108; enters
Madrid, 111; becomes Emperor,
128; holds out against the peace
of Utrecht, 134; his later policy,
187; his death, 188

Church, High and Low, origin of, 117
Churches of England and Scotland,
unaffected by the Union, 141
Churchill, Lord John (see Marl-
borough, Duke of)

Claret, a favourite wine in England
at this time, 204

Clergy, the, their position, 210
Coal-fields, 201

Coffee, introduction of, into England,

ECONOMIC condition

of the

people of England, 188
Election, general, of 1710, 125
Electors, the, how they ranged
themselves, 33

Elizabeth, sister of Charles I., her
descendants, 17!

England, indignation against William
III. in, 8; foreign policy in the
seventeenth century, 16; formation
of league with Holland and Swe-
den, 17; revolution of 1688, 22;
declaration of war, 40; victory at
Schellenberg, 58; victory over the
French at Blenheim, 63; defeats
the French at Ramillies, 77; troops
separated from the allies, 131; her
gains by the war of Spanish succes-
sion, 134-135; social and economic
condition of the people at this time,

FRE

188-210; compared with other
European nations, 201; union
with Scotland (see Union with
Scotland)

English Literature, 215-231
Equivalent, the, 141

Eugene of Savoy, Prince, his cha-
racter and intimacy with Marl-
borough, 30; his victory at Cre-
mona, 43; his meeting with Marl-
borough, 57; his position in the
battle of Blenheim, 61, 62; his
attack on Lutzingen, 64; marches.
to Turin, 79; his victory at Turin,
81; besieges Toulon, 90; joins
Marlborough in the battle of
Oudenarde, 93; besieges Lille, 96;
wounded at Malplaquet, 104; his
mission to England, 130; separated
from Ormond, 131

Evelyn, John, 154
Exchange, the, 192, 193

FENELON, Archbishop of Cam-

bray, 214; his Adventures o
Telemachus,' 182

Feodor, 152

Finland, falls into the hands of
Russia, 165

Flag, national, changes in, 143
France, her position at the com-
mencement of the eighteenth cen-
tury, 4; injuries caused to, by
the revocation of the Edict of
Nantes, 21; her chance against
the league, 39; her object in making
the campaign of 1704, 56; defeated
at Blenheim, 63; defeated at Ka-
millies, 77; commences the siege
of Turin, 79; demoralisation of
troops, 81; defeated at Turin, 81;
defeats the allies at Almanza, 88;
her endeavours to win Brabant
back, 92; defeated by the allies at
Oudenarde, 95; public misery in,
97; intolerable proposal by the
allies and appeal to the people, 99;
and the answer to it, 100; troops.
withdrawn from Spain, 107; vic-
tory at Denain, 132; effect of the
war on, 135
Frederick Augustus, the Strong, of
Poland, 158; defeated by Charles.
XII., 161

GALWAY, Earl of, in Portugal,
46; enters Madrid, 83; junc-
tion with Peterborough at Guada-
laxera, 85; defeated at Almanza,
88; his letter to Marlborough re-
garding his defeat, 89; appointed
to the command in Portugal, 105
George I., Elector of Hanover, pro-
claimed King of England, 178;
his early life, 179; his bravery,
179; a good Elector, 179; unpo-
pular could not speak English,
179; phlegmatic, 179; his wife,
180; a good king for England, 180
George II., son of George I., 179
George, prince of Denmark, marries
Anne, 25; appointed Lord High
Admiral, 26; his sympathy with
the Occasional Conformity Bill, 118
Germany, weakness of, 13; campaign

in, 43-44

Gertruydenburg, conference at, 133
Ghent taken, 78

Gibraltar taken by the English, 47
Godolphin, appointed Lord High
Treasurer, 29, 117; his character,
30; goes over to the Whig party,
118; loses favour with Anne, 123;
dismissal from office, 126; his
death, 130

Grand alliance of the Hague, the, 11,

23; its component parts, 32-40;
progress of, 35

Guadalaxara, junction of Galway
and Peterborough at, 85
Guiscard, Marquis of, assails Harley,

127

'Gulliver's Travels,' 223

JAM
Harley, Robert, his ministry, 122;
as Secretary of State, 123; as chief
of the Tory party, 126, 127: attack
on his life, 127; made Earl of Ox-
ford, 127; dismissed from office,
176; lines from Pope on, 217
Heinsius, Anthony, Pensionary, a
friend of Marlborough, 31
Henry of Navarre, 21

Hesse, Prince of, 68, 69; his death,
70; his successor invests Mons, 103
Hill, Abigail, in favour with Anne,
High Church, origin of, 117
121; marries Mr. Masham, 122;
(see Masham, Mrs.)

Hill, Colonel, commands an expedi-
tion against Quebec, 129
Hochstadt, battle of, 44
Holland, invasion of, 17; formation
of league with Holland and Swe-
den, 17; cutting of the dykes, 18;
application of the word, 35; de-
cline of her influence in Europe, 136
Holstein, Duke of, 158
'Homer,' 218

Hooke, Colonel, 145

Hudson's Bay Territory, acquired by
Horace, compared with Pope, 218
England, 135

Huguenots, effect of the revocation
of the Edict of Nantes, 20; perse-
cution and emigration, 21; geo-
graphy of their country, 48
Hungary, its condition during the
war of the Spanish succession, 55-
56; revolt in, 56

Huy, fortress of, taken, 43

their real strength, 174; their
connection with the Tories, 174

Hampden, John, 181

Hanover, Electoral Prince of, 94
Hanoverian succession secured, 178
Hapsburg, House of, 32

James Stuart, Francis Edward, sur-
named the Pretender, his character
145-146; Jacobite rising in favour

of, 145; acknowledged as king by
Lewis XIV., 146