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INDEX.

480.

Followers, of the army, in great order, 21; | Frank, Dr., testimony to his zeal and ability,
respecting complaints of, 119; licentious-
ness of, to be suppressed by decided mea-
sures, 197.

Folly, of the Constitution of Spain, 724; to
wait with patience the termination of, 796.
Food, neither man nor animal can live with-
out; Spaniards more clamorous for, than
the British, 305; attention to, 377; soldiers
cannot do without, deaths in consequence,

512.

Fools, or knaves, charges made, 347.
Forbearance, towards the Marhatta sirdars,
217.

Fords, what are practicable for troops, 700.
Foreign, tribunal, officers and soldiers, violat-
ing the laws, are amenable to, 749; troops,
wishes not to increase the British army
with, 532.

Forjaz, Dom M., desire to support, 425; re-
signs, 550; prejudices against, changed to
a favorable opinion of, 593; defence of,
610; the ablest statesman and man of bu-
siness in the Peninsula, 839; opinion of,
and reasons for espousing his cause, 920.
Fortress, in the attack of, exertions of the po-
pulation not to be reckoned upon, 634.
Forts, attacks of, in India, without breaching
the walls, uncertain in their issue, 43;
strict orders not to be plundered, 50; po-
licy of building them on the sea coast, 117;
at Salamanca, siege of, 660, 661.
Fort St. George, takes leave of the European
inhabitants and military officers of the
Presidency of, 227.

Fortune's way, proposes to get into, 710.
Fouché, M. (see Otrante, Duc d').
Foxes, plenty of, 726.

Foz d'Arouce, affair at, 511.
France, south of, anticipates operations in,
698; will not enter, to be driven out, 802;
invasion of, 812; object to diminish the
power of, 816; entrance into, and opera-
tions in, 837; plunder by the Spanish army
on entrance, letter to General Freyre, 848;
further advanced in, than any of the allied
powers; operations and preparations, 861;
on plunder in, letter to General Morillo, 862;
to General Freyre, 863, 865, 866, 869; po-
sition in, 870; the allies not strong enough
to invade, 871; state of, in a letter to Ge-
neral Dumouriez, 916; arrangements made
by the allied Sovereigns at Vienna, in con-
sequence of Buonaparte's invasion of, 924,
925, 926, 927; nothing to be attempted
without the invitation of the King of, 928;
operations proposed in, 934; in letter to
Prince Schwarzenberg, 936; the power of
Buonaparte in, founded in the army only,
939; state in which Europe is placed with
respect to, 943; civil and military operations
recommended, on the invasion of, 946, 947;
described as to military occupation, in a
letter to Lord Castlereagh, 987, 988; memo-
randum on the temporary occupation of part
of, 991; divided into so many parties, and
so few patriots, much to be feared from, 992;
in a better state, reasons for so being, 1005.

Freebooters, at Munkaiseer, defeat of, 159;
character of, 191.

Freemasonry, desire for the discontinuance of,

in Portugal, being contrary to the lawof, 351.
French, can never have any alliance with the
Marhattas, reasons why, 52; invasion of
India by, provided against, 200; impossible
to prevent the retreat of, from Spain, 253;
inadequacy of, to complete the conquest of
Spain; discordancy of arrangements, 409;
the desire of the inhabitants of the Penin-
sula to be saved from the grasp of the, 425;
army, difficulty of subsisting, 449; not quite
certain that he ought to attack the, 455; the
Portuguese, cordial haters of, 483; army, a
wonderful machine, 490; barbarity of, on
the retreat from Portugal, seldom equalled,
never surpassed, 507; partisans, 555; de-
testation of, in Spain, 674, 675, 676; sys-
tem of government, oppressive; all wish to
get rid of it, 748; duty to oppose, 769;
general amnesty, recommend to be given to
those Spaniards who took part with the, rea-
sons for, 779; hatred of the yoke of Buona-
parte, duty not to mislead the, 886; army
Friend, to Portugal, in supporting demands
(see Army, French).
Friends, in India, takes leave of, 223, 224,
for assistance, 493.
Friendship, superior claims to feelings of, 58;
225, 226, 227.
should be reciprocal, 169; to be sacrificed
to duty, 215.

Frontiers, reasons for the French carrying on
the war beyond their, 623.

Funds, from the misapplication and mal-
administration of, the troops in Spain
starving, where the French maintained ten
times the number, 781.
Fuentes de Oñoro, battle of, 536.

G.

GALLANTRY, officers should have other quali-
Gallop, friends in the Cortes, recommended
ties besides, 919.
not to go at full, 462; trick of officers of

cavalry, animadverted upon, 657; very fast
Game, will not give up the, 349; the sure,
in England and in France, 895.
to await the attack of the French, 455.
Gaols (see Jails).

Garrisons, in Spain, discussion on, 755.
Gawilghur, capture of, 137; but little plun-

dered, and regularity in the troops an hour
after the storm, 138.

General actions, to be avoided by the Spa-
niards, 305, 516, 548, 557.
General Officers, duty of, when employed at
General Courts Martial (see Courts Martial).

home, 230; junior to all, but ready to
serve wherever, and as they please, 237;
letter to the, on accepting the testimony of
esteem and confidence, after the battle of
Vimeiro, 250; leave to, on resigning the
command of a brigade, 277; must not
speculate upon what is not practicable, 341;

INDEX.

French, have in general behaved well to the
British soldiers who have fallen into their
hands, 344; being party men, not to be
sent out to him, 350; obliged to consent to
give leave of absence to, but cannot ap-
prove, 492; annoyed at their going on
leave, 494; satisfaction at their being
roughly handled by the newspapers, 516;
letter to, on the discriminating judgment
required by officers in action, 540; hope
that experience will teach that success is
only to be attained by attention to the most
minute details, 542; leave of absence to,
558, 564; commanding divisions, 577:
refusal of leave to, painful, 639; the re-
sponsibility of the removal of, when unfit,
720; opinion of, who seek popularity, 846;
position of, 904; responsible for the con-
duct of the staff officers employed under
them, 1011.

1. General Orders.

India.

Line of march, sentinels over grain fields; page 44;
breach in the line of march, soldiers to be pro-
perly dressed, rioting of soldiers in the bazaar,
47; marching days, corps to report arrival on
their ground, 50; field hospital, 56; the march,
on rice, scarcity of green forage, how to be
purchased, stationing piquets and guards after the
march, 57; safeguards, 65; piquets, 66, 69;
thanks for Ahmednuggur, private property to be
respected, 69; on the disobedience of, how to be
issued and circulated, 72; arrangements for the
march, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78; baggage, thanks
for Assye, 83; cattle taken, to be purchased, salt,
88; salute on the Dessarah, arrangements for the
wounded, 91, 92, 93; captured guns, 93; further
arrangements for wounded and invaliding, 94;
thanks to Captain O'Donnell, 94; forage and car-
riage of sick, 95; an execution, 98; the march,
99; pensions to the families of natives, 101; am
munition and baggage, 102; plunder, reception
of a vakeel, 107; on the exercise of discretion by
an officer, 110; stragglers, payment of grain taken
in villages, 116; thanks for Argaum, 122; cessa-
tion of hostilities, 122, 123; elephants, carriage
of sick, 124; donation to dooley bearers, 126;
the attack of Gawilghur, 127; thanks for, 128,
131; reception of vakeels, order of march, 132;
thanks to Colonel Stevenson, 133; on the ratifica-
tion of peace, 134; forage guard against thieves,
136; the march, 145; leave of absence to Bom-
bay, prize rolls, 164, 165; memorandum for
the manœuvres of cavalry, 166; distress for want
of grain, 167, &c.; police in camp, piquets,
rice gratis, 168, 169; on the good state of the na-
tive infantry, cavalry, how to be paraded, me-
morandum for the drill of infantry, 170, 171, 172;
presentation of colors, 172; subsidiary forces with
the Soubahdar of the Deccan and the Peshwah,
172 to 176; takes leave of the army, 198.
2. General Orders. Peninsula.

To be printed, and a copy to be furnished to
every regiment, page 252, 253; appointment
of Lieut. General Sir A. Wellesley, K.B., to
be Commander of the Forces in Portugal, 253;
order of march, and occupation of position in
cantonments, impediments on the march, 253;
regulations as to requisitions, quarters, and
baggage, provisions and forage, 254; ammu-
nition, absentees after the march, thanks for
Oporto, 255; bread, 258: meat in lieu of bread,
wine forms no part of rations, horses and cattle
taken from the enemy, firing off muskets in quar-
ters, ammunition, plunder, 259; bread seized in
the rear, baggage on bullock cars, 260; huts
and tents, 261; outrages, visitings of squads,
people of Portugal deserve well of the Army,
262; 3 days' bread and 3 days' corn to be car-

cantonments

ried by infantry and cavalry, hospital, 23;
and allotments of quarters;
hospital, recovered men, 40 to be under an
officer, and in proportion, olive and fruit trees,
irregularities of the soldiers, consequences of,
264; more assistant provosts appointed. 265;
wounded in hospital, green forage, ovens, sol-
diers not to quit the lines unless properly dressed,
266; inspection of arms, ammunition, the route
to specify where provisions to be issued, the
march of detachments, 268, 269; on rye, Indian
corn, or barley, care to be taken in giving water
to horses, the circulation of orders, the issue of
bread to be notified, camp kettles, General and
staff officers to put their names on their doors,
the troops to be properly dressed out of the lines,
applications to commissaries for provisions,
markets, officers of head quarters, on arrival in
a new quarter, to send their addresses to the
adjutant general, 270, 271; preparation for battle,
272, 273; thanks for Talavera de la Reyna, 275;
practice of firing off muskets forbidden, 274;
be called every 2 hours,
plunder, rolls to
281; rations not to be paid for, none having
been received by the troops, plunder increases
the difficulties of the troops, roots and vegeta-
bies not to be taken without payment, 284; bee-
hives not to be plundered, rolls to be called
every 2 hours, 285; cars not to be loaded with
more than 600 lbs. weight, 286; the women of the
army not to buy bread, 287; forage, 288; or-
derly books, 289; hospitals, police regulations for,
290; plunder of a bakery, beehives, disgraceful
practices, cars, shoes, boards of medical officers
to be assembled for the purpose of examination
of officers with certificates of ill health, senseless
reports in the rear of all armies, incorrectness of
states and returns, stores for the army landed at
Lisbon, rules to be observed, disobedience of
orders, cars, 290, 291, 292; beehives, cavalry
not to be used as orderlies, 293; discipline, order,
and regularity, respect for Portuguese and Spa-
nish sentries, plunder of stores, 294; mistakes
in returns and states, how to be corrected,
books, much to do in regiments besides parades
and drills, 295, 296; women with the clothing,
board of claims, 297, 298; improper requi-
sitions and receipts for provisions, cars, 298;
quartering officers at Lisbon, 299, 300; exercise
and marching of the troops, condition of the
horses of cavalry and artillery, 313; officers who
have lately joined the army to be made ac-
quainted with, 318; exercise of artillery horses,
obedience to the orders of Portuguese and
Spanish guards and sentries, 320; indiscretion of
officers commanding guards at Badajoz, 323; re-
gulations for the march and requisitions, 324;
pressing mules and carts again forbidden, on
quarters, hospital police, and registry, 338;
absence of officers of the staff, quartering of
officers, 338, 339; on freemasonry, 340; post-
horses, ammunition when in hospital, shoot-
ing bullocks to be discontinued, issue of wine
on the Queen of Portugal's birthday, 341; pay,
343; servants who are soldiers, cautions to,
344; execution for robbery, 345; poisonous roots,
348; punishment for disgraceful outrages, 349,
353; irregular vouchers, 354; convoys of money,
360; sale of corn by the soldiers of the cavalry,
361; on the disobedience of orders in the officers
of the commissariat, 363; ammunition, stoppage
for loss of, 365; blankets and great coats, rob-
hery and murder, 366; horses brought in by
deserters, 368; hospital returns, omission and
mistakes in the division orderly books, or-
derly books not private property, rules for
notice of
returns of necessaries, 369, 370;
practice firing, 370; murderers, reward to dis-
cover, 371; streets and roads, marching, canton-
ing, and provisioning of the troops, carts, flags
of truce, simplicity and indiscretion in commu-
nications by, 372; pressing carriages animadverted
upon, 373; private correspondence of officers of
the army, consequences of, 377; hospital ticket,
379; explanation and atonement for error no de-
gradation, 384; thanks for Busaco, 385, 386; strag

INDEX.

glers, inspection of packs, plunder, 390; tele-
graph, dragoons used as orderlies, 392; sick,
hospital servants, bâtmen, 393; convalescents,
rice, salt meat, 394; blankets and great coats,
397; servants, desertion, 402; the execution of
orders, quarters quitted by the enemy, rice dis-
continued, 404; doors and windows, salt, 405;
olive and fruit trees, burning doors and windows,
repetition of orders, 409; deer shooting. 414,
415; ill treatment of inhabitants, no more right
to confine in a guardhouse an inhabitant of
Portugal than one of H. M. subjects in Great
Britain, 417; medical boards, 429; irregularities
in regimental courts martial, and in their con-
sequences, 430; approbation of the conduct of
the army, 451; column of march to be told off in
threes for the facility of route marching, 451,
452; plunder, safeguards, disobedience of orders,
property taken on the retreat, supplies in the
rear seized, 454, 455; theatres at Lisbon, 457;
baggage in the transports, 463; depredations,
cleanliness, escorts for mules, 468; green corn,
plunder, patroles, exercise of the troops, re-
serves of biscuits, 470; accuracy of reports of
movements of the enemy, 473; orderlies and bât
men of cavalry, 492; captures from the enemy,
heavy baggage, 493; general hospital, sick, 498;
forage, exercise of the troops, celerity and accu-
racy, reserves of biscuit, 502; daily states of
the army, 503; obedience to, and individual
convenience to be sacrificed, 507; bullock cars,
medicine panniers, clothing, accuracy of form-
ations and movements, 508; pardon, police in
cantonments, 510; receipts for letters, covers
improper, 513; plunder, roll-calling to prevent,
517; pardon, 519; court martial on Lieut.
Colonel ; danger of searching for wine,
520: quarters and billets, 522, 523; thanks for
El Bodon, 530; foraging, removal of the sick,
531; exercise and marching, thanks of the
Prince Regent of Portugal, 532; pardon for tell-
ing the truth, robbing houses, determination to
punish, 533; duties of the provost and his assist-
ants defined, 534; officers at Lisbon, improper ab-|
sence, 539; hospital stations, detention of soldiers
at, improper conduct of two officers of the com-
missariat at Peniche, 540; embargoing or press-
ing forbidden, excepting by order of a magistrate,
541; insulting language in communications, re-
spect for authority, means of transport, commu-
nications, mules, forage, 542; Board of Claims,
principles of, 543, 544; preparations for a siege,
544; outrages, determined to punish, 563; thanks
for Ciudad Rodrigo, remission of punishment in
consequence, 569; burning beams and timbers
of buildings for firewood, 574; roll calls every
hour, irregular requisitions, quarters, officers
shall be encamped, 575; thanks for Badajoz,
plunder to cease, 581; roll calls, provost mar-
shal, 586, 587; inspection of packs, directions on
the separation of columns on the march, 587;
green forage, 588; half-yearly confidential re-
ports, 589; General officers to visit hospital sta-
tions, detachments marching from hospital,
necessaries, equipments, blankets, and prevention
of sale of, 592; green forage, vegetables, pro-
Vosts, outrages, exhortations to prevent, 599; re-
spect for civil authorities, reprimand, 605; forage,
parole and countersign discontinued, baggage,
&c., when near the enemy, 606; thanks for Sa-
lamanca, necessary preservation of order of
formation in action, 609; desirable to put the
troops in towns during the day, and on high
grounds at night, stragglers on the march, 616;
stragglers, followers of the army, sickness,
issues of spirits and wine will be stopped, 618;
British soldiers murdered, provisions and forage
on the route to the army, kind treatment of the
Spaniards, 619; to be properly dressed in the
streets of Madrid, the palace, officers placed in
arrest, carts, consequence of inaccuracy in re-
turns, forage, receipts for, 620; disobedience of
orders, exercise and manoeuvre, bát and forage
money regulations, 621, 622; quarters and can-
tonments, obedience to orders, musket ammuni-
tion to be daily examined, 626; working parties,

complaints of, 628, 629; march of detachments,
630; pig shooting, 637, 638; forage, hay wasted
and destroyed, 644; hospital charges to be set-
tled by the paymaster on receiving their esti-
mates, 646; disobedience of orders, tin camp
kettles, how to be carried, mules now to carry
tents, how tents to be distributed, officers' tents,
667, 668; mule equipments, 668; Staff Corps of
Cavalry for the police of the army, misconduct
and outrages, 669, 670; troops arriving from
England, description rolls, and necessaries,
677; hospital ticket, neglect of, 678; green
forage, 687; tents, how to be disposed of in
camp, 689; conduct of the officers and soldiers
towards the magistrates, head quarters, hospital
stations, purveyors in charge of soldiers' appoint-
ments, 691; duties of officers on marching de-
tachments, inadvertency no excuse for neglect
and disobedience of orders, 692; a staff officeralways
to be in camp to receive and circulate orders,
the destruction of corn to be prevented, 693;
after an action with the enemy, 695; order of
the line of march, 699; thanks for Vitoria, 705;
conduct required of the army on the frontiers of
France, 710; regulation of the march, bâtmen to
carry their arms, 711; complaints of the cavalry
cutting green corn, 713; regulations regarding the
pay to the troops, 726; issues of bread, and con-
sumption of, 730: nominal lists of sick, 731;
balances of pay, 745; General officers must not
give leave of absence, no officer can lay aside or
assume rank at pleasure, 747; desertion to the
enemy, 748; outrages, 749; no one to pass the ad-
vanced posts, 756; taking quarters, hospitals, &c.,
757; to use dry forage, 758; professional duty the
first object of officers, 762; foraging parties, and
rules to be observed in the distribution of forage
collected, 764; the sentence of a general court
martial on an officer for refusing to take charge of a
detachment, 769, 770; officers always to behave
with mildness and civility, cleanliness in canton-
ments, animals to graze, inhabitants to be en-
couraged in their peaceable occupations, 775; irre-
gularity in obtaining forage, 783; complaints, 786;
communications with the enemy at the outposts.
788; foraging parties, 790; unbecoming and
ungentlemaulike behaviour of officers towards
each other, 793; for the formation of guards
for the protection of property, 798; requisitions,
outrages, churches not to be used as stabling.
799; requisitions to be made by commissaries,
who are to settle with the magistrates, 800; neither
officers uor soldiers to be billeted on post-houses,
bátmen and baggage, disobedience of orders,
conduct of detachments, 803; baggage, the line of
march, the opposite side of the road to be kept
free for the passing of carriages, 803; carts and car-
riages with the army, owners and servants belong-
ing to, 804, 805; suspension of hostilities, 812, 813;
congratulation and thanks to the army, 813, 819.

3. General Orders.

France.

Low Countries and

Appointment of Field Marshal the Duke of Wel-
lington to command the army on the continent of
Europe, page 838; baggage, 839; camp kettles, ca-
valry orderlies, 840; 4 days' bread, 841; daily
states, 842; on the formation of light infantry bat-
talions, 844; officers to appear before medical
boards, 847; neglect of duty, consequences of, car-
riages and carts, 848; great coats, weight of knap-
sacks, tents, 849; daily pay, advantages of, 850;
on the army entering France, and thanks for the
battle of Waterloo; nothing to be taken with-
out payment, 865; commissariat and hospital regn-
lations, formation of the Cavalry Staff Corps, 866;
carts, women, baggage, 867; straggling on the
march, 869; general orders from the Horse Guards,
and letter from the War Department, respecting
the battle of Waterloo, 873; Convention of Paris,
and result of the glorious victory at Waterloo,
880;
thanks of Parliament for the battle of
Waterloo, 882; conduct of officers at theatres,
review by the Emperor of Russia, dress of officers
in Paris, octroi, harvest, 886; requisitions, free