THE HOUSE OF STUART. JAMES I. TO ANNE, 1603 TO 1714.
Mary Queen of Scots, married (second husband) Henry Darnley.
James I., married Anne of Denmark. 1603-1625.
James II., married Anne Hyde, and afterwards Mary D'Este. 1685-1688.
The COMMONWEALTH, from 1649-1660:-Oliver Cromwell, 1649-1658; Richard Cromwell, 1658, 1659; Period of Anarchy, 1659, 1660.
Elizabeth, daughter of James I. (see Table VI.), mar. the Elector-Palatine.
Sophia, mar. Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick and Elector of Hanover. George I., 1714, mar. Sophia Dorothea of Zell.
Prince Albert Victor, born 1864.
George Frederick, born 1865.
Louise Victoria, born 1867.
Victoria Alexandra, born 1868.
Maude Charlotte, born 1869.
sion of, 212. Ralph, 560, 566. head of the govern- he Crimean War, 648. rel between England glish army penetrates 52; the taking of Mag- th of the king of, 662. , 561.
ry. See Sidmouth, visc. vasion of, by British,
lad, accident to, 678. quests and civil govern- En, 9. ,peace of, 471. ng of the, 653; escape Mersey, pursued and eral ship, 654; corre- etween the American governments concern- ims decided at Geneva,
attles of, 176, 178. his marriage with Queen ; his advancement of 32; Crystal Palace de- ; his death, 652. of, 590.
mp. of Russia, 579, 596. king of Scotland, 110. , king of Scotland, 123. ttle of, 566; expedition razer against, 579. at, life and reign, 29, 33. rded by Lord Exmouth, expedition against, 619. and French, landing of, ea, 645; victory of, in Alma, 645; in battle of 46; taking of Sebastopol
North and South, 652; cause of the quarrel, 652; blockade of the South, 652; demands made on England to make good the depredations of the Alabama, 655.
Amiens, peace of, 568. André, major, 513-517. Angles, their conquest under Ida, 17. Anglia, East, kingdom of, established, 17. Anglo-Saxons, their manners and cus- toms, 51-62.
Angoulême, duc d', leads an army into Spain, 601.
Anjou, duke of, his projected marriage with Queen Elizabeth, 274-278. Anne of Cleves, wife of Hen. VIII., 218. Anne, queen, reign of, 428-442. Anselm, archbishop, 73, 75. Anson, commodore, 460. Arc, Joan of, 170, 171. Architecture, revolution in, in England, 631.
Armada, Spanish, the, 284-286. Army, Austrian, its inferior armament, in the war with Prussia, 663. Army, English, despatch of, to Malta, 644; landing of, at Gallipoli; its imperfect equipment, 645; sickness in; its encampment in Bulgaria, 645; ravages of disease and cold in, 646, 647; its return to England, 648; popular dissatisfaction at its adminis- tration during the Crimean War, 648; absence of, in India, at the breaking out of the mutiny, 649; reinforce- ments sent to India, 649; despatch of troops by Lord Elgin from China to India, 650; commanded by Sir Hope Grant in Chinese War, 650; sent to Abyssinia under General Sir Robert Napier, 662; successful operations of, in Abyssinia, 662; force of, in Abys sinia, 662; thanked by Parliament, 662; improvements in the constitu tion of the, 670; reforms introduced in, by Mr. Cardwell, 679. Army, French, disorganization and cor- ruption of, 665; its defeat at all points by Germans, 665; its sur- render at Sedan to Germans, 665; fresh levies raised, 666. Army, Prussian, the construction of,
663; its superior armament, 663; military genius of its commanders in the war with Austria, 663; rapid
mobilization of, 665; successful cam- paign against the French, 665; re- duction of Metz and Paris by, 665, 666; the remarkable training and discipline of, 666.
Arnold, the American general, 513-517. Arthur, king, his reign and death, 17. Arthur, prince, nephew of K. John, 102. Arthur, prince, son of Henry VII., 197. Articles, Thirty-nine, obligation to sign, by candidates for the University, re- moved, 669.
Artillery, modern improvements in, 670. Ashantees, war with the, 679. Ashley. See Shaftesbury, earl of. Assye, battle of, 585. Athelstan, reign of, 34.
Atterbury, Francis, b. of Rochester, 451. Auckland, Lord, his policy in the Afghan war, 635. Augustenburg, duke of, abjures his succession to the ducal throne, 656; the son of, claims the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, 656. Augustine, the monk, conversion of the Anglo-Saxons by, 22. Augustus, his intended conquest of Bri- tain, 7.
Austerlitz, battle of, 574.
Austria, war with Piedmont and France, is defeated, and makes terms with France; Treaty of Villafranca, 651; follows the lead of Prussia in the in- vasion of Denmark, 656; with Prus- sia garrisons Holstein and Schleswig, 656; arms against Prussia, 657; feel- ing of the smaller German States to- wards, 663; ultimatum sent by Prus- sia to, 663; construction of its army, 663; defeated by Prussia at Sadowa, 663; its capital threatened, 663, 664; by treaty with Prussia is excluded from all interference in German af- fairs, 664; surrenders her last Italian possession to France, 664; complains of the violation of the treaty of 1856 by Russia, 667.
BABINGTON'S conspiracy, 279. Bacon, Sir F., lord chancellor, 315, 319. Bacon, Sir Nicholas, lord keeper, 254. Badajoz, stormed by the British, 591. Baird, Sir David, leads an army of Sepoys into Egypt, 567. Balaclava, attacked by Russians, 646. Baliol, John, king of Scotland, 124, 126. Balloons, use of, during the siege of Paris, 666.
Bannockburn, battle of, 135. Barcelona, siege of, 431. Barebones' parliament, 373. Barnet, battle of, 184.
Barons, their tyranny in the reign of Ste-
phen, 77; their rebellion and league against John, 106; their discontent in the reign of Henry III,, 113; their disputes with Edward II., 137. Bartholomew, St., massacre of, 275. Basing, battle of, 28.
Bastille at Paris, its destruction, 527. Battles-
of the Alma, 646. Bull's Run, 652. Chillianwallah, 642.
between Germans and French, 665. of Inkerman, 646. Magenta, 651. Moodkee, 641. Sadowa, 663. Sobraon, 642. Solferino, 651. Bautzen, battle of, 592. Bazaine, Marshal, takes shelter, with 100,000 men, in Metz, 665; sur- renders to Germans, 665; trial of; found guilty and condemned to death, 675; sentence commuted; he escapes from his prison, 676.
Beales, Mr., heads the London roughs
against the existing government, 658. Beaton, cardinal, 220; assassinated, 236. Beaufort, cardinal Henry, bishop of Winchester, 169, 174.
Beauharnois, Eugene, viceroy of Italy under Napoleon, 582.
Becket, Gilbert, father of Thomas, 81. Becket, Thomas, chancellor and arch- bishop of Canterbury, 82-87. Bedford, John Plantagenet, duke of, regent of France, 167-172. Bedloe, accomplice of Titus Oates, 401. Belgium, influence of French revolu- tion of 1830 on; connexion of, with Holland dissolved, 620; accession of Leopold, 620; intrigue for its absorp tion with France, 664. Bellingham, John, 591. Benedictine monks, their rise in Eng- land, 36, 40.
Bengal, disorganization of the native army of, 649.
Beresford, general, capture of Buenos Ayres by, 577; defeats the French at Albuera, 590.
Berlin decrees issued by Napoleon, 579; measures of England, 581; Treaty of, 692.
Bertha, queen, her Christian zeal, 22. Betroun law, in Ireland, 312. Bhurtpore, capture of, 609. Birmingham, formation of a political club in, 621.
Bishops, the seven, their remonstrance to James II., 409; their trial and acquittal, 410.
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