Canadian Militia: Advisory Coun- cil, 180; Defence Commission, 145; Dundonald-Lake scheme, 203, 205; Guides, 239; high wages v. military service, 235, 236; history, 26, 29, 73, 77, 81, 89, 92, 148; Hutton's report and Na- tional Army scheme, 145-7; Inspector-Generals' reports and suggestions, 203-4, 235, 236, 236-8; Intelligence Branch, 239 ; military laws, 92-5, 96-7, 129, 145, 179-80, 202; Minister of Militia and Defence and Home commanders, 179; non-compul- sory service difficulties, 234-5, 237; Petawawa Camp, 203, 204; recommendations of 1862 re- jected, 93-4; scheme for Eastern Canada, 235; statistics, 92, 102-3, 128, 202, 238; Universal Service basis of National Army, 237; Western Prairies Mounted Men, 239
Canadian Mounted Rifles, 130, 131 Canadian Navy: Niobe and Rain- bow, 198, 217 Canadian Voltigeurs, 92 Canadian Volunteers:
93, 94-5; early work, 95-6; joined with Militia, 96-7
Canadian Voyageurs, 98 Canterbury, N.Z., 82 Canton, 45, 46
Cape Breton Island, 6, 8 Cape Colony: class, 83, 86; de-
fence, 79, 80, 81, 90-1, 133, 134; diamond fields, 91; Frontier Police, 91; German legion, 80, 81; government, 66, 86, 91, 108; history, 28; Imperial co-opera- tion, 144, 152, 154, 182, 190, 216, 220, 226; wars, 91
Cape Mounted Riflemen, 79, 91, 134, 228
Cape of Good Hope, 4, 39, 59, 104
Capetown, 102, 130, 227
Cardwell, Mr., 105
Carleton, 26
Carnarvon, Lord, 87, 91, 92, 94, 96, 103, 104, 125, 138, 140, 141, 142, 244
Carnatic, 33, 112 Carrington, General, 133 Cartagena, 4-5
1887: Concerned primarily with defence, 140-1; decided coaling stations and Australasian Naval Agreement, 141, 216;
1897: Cape Colony offer, 144, 216; interchange of military units, 144-5;
1902 Imperial Reserves, 149- 52; naval policy, 152–4, 216;
1907: Australasian Naval Agreement reviewed, 189-90; Dominion autonomy recognized, 187-9; Home Army and General Staff, 186; Imperial General Staff, 188-9; Imperial Confer- ence, 183-4; self-governing Co- lonies recognized as Dominions, 183, 184; subsidiary conferences, 184, 195; uniformity with diver- sity problem, 184-5;
1909 (Naval and Military): Admiralty suggests complete Do- minion fleet units, 195-6; Cana- dian Fleet inaugurated, 197-8 ; defence as special and confidential subject, 208-9; Empire Pacific Fleet, 196-7; military resolution, combining Dominion autonomy with Imperial co-operation, 198;
1911 (Imperial): Conference now established and representa- tive, 207; existing machinery left intact, 208; Imperial Coun- cil, 207-8; Imperial Defence Committee, 208-9; international position, 209; local Defence Com- mittees, 209-10
Colonial Defence Committee, 104, 143, 147, 149
Colonial military forces and cost
(1851-61), 79-81; (1887), 102-3 Colonial Naval Defence Act (1865), 105
Colonial Office, 75, 81, 83, 87, 88,
106, 137, 138, 184, 208; history, 125;' invites Colonial Conference, 139; Lyttelton dispatch, 181-2; West African army, 261 Colonial policy: Pitt's, 13-14; Palmerston's, 85; Gladstone's, 85, 90; Chamberlain's, 125-6 Colonial rights, 12
Colonial Secretaries, 125-6 Colonial self-government: financial arguments for, 22, 70-1, 79; gradually developed, 76, 84-5, 86, 89; its compatibility with
Imperial co-operation, 152, 182, 185, 188-9, 191 Colonial self-defence: a corollary of self-government, 76, 84; argu- ments for, 77-9, 84, and against, 87, 96; Canadian difficulties- Militia Bill of 1862 rejected, 93-4; Canadians suppress rising unaided, 97; family analogy, 70; finance, 76-7, 78-9; forwarded by New Zealand War, 86–7; history, 22, 69, 70-3, 75; Home support continuous from 1755, 73; influence of war and peace on policy, 75, 77; local circum- stances considered, 84, 88; offi- cial figures, 79-81; recommenda- tions of Parliamentary Commit- tee, 82, 84; Resolution of House of Commons, 85-6; withdrawal of garrisons, 87-8, 89-91, 96, 97, 229, 256, 257
Colonial troops, early, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13-14, 15, 16-17, 18, 19-20 Colonies, early, 2; in 1859, classi- fied, 82 (note); new classification, 1861, 83-4; self-governing, be- come Dominions, 183, 184 Colonists, brilliant feat by, 7; London centre for, 106
Colour line in South Africa, 128; obstruction to United Empire, 136; upheld by Lt.-Col. Altham, 150
Commander-in-Chief, 186 Commando system, 17, 228 Compulsory military training: Aus- tralia, 191, 200, 201, 230; New Zealand, 201, 202, 230; South Africa, 228-9
Concentration in modern warfare, 84, 102, 185, 256
Congo, Lower, 266
Connaught, Duke of, 95, 96 Connecticut, 17
Conscientious objectors, 18, 234 Constantine, King, 121 Constantinople, 53, 161
Constitutions, various, of British Empire, 243-4 Cook, Sir Joseph, 200 Coote, Sir Eyre, 10
Co-ordination, a need proved by
South African War, 154-5 Crimean War, 42, 43, 48-9, 66-7, 77, 80, 92, 125, 264
Cromwell, Oliver, 2, 3
Cronje, 130
Cunard Company, 250
Curzon, Lord, 112, 117, 168 Cyprus, 53-4, 102, 242
Dalhousie, Lord, 49 Dalley, W. B., 100 Damascus, 161, 163
Dardanelles Commission, 147, 211 Dar-es-Salaam-Tanganyika Rail- way, 266
Deakin, Mr., 176, 184, 189, 191, 194, 200
Delhi, 49, 174, 175, 302 Delta, Nile, 255
Democracy and preparation for war, 246-7, 274, 286; in peril from military domination, 299 Democratic soldiers, 19, 146, 200 Denison, Col. George, 93, 129 Deolali, 171
Derby, Lord, on Australian pro- gress, 101
Derrick, Col. G. A., 265 Dervishes, 120
Deutsche Bank, 162 Deutschland über Alles, 272 De Wet, 133, 134
Diversity within the Empire, 9, 159, 241-4; disadvantageous in war, 12; problem of its recon- ciliation with military uniformity, 155, 184-5, 226
Dominion forces at outbreak of European War, 239, 254 Dominions and Imperial Defence Committee, 209-11
Dominions, difficulties of organized defence in, 205; unity of, grown up from below, 243; volunteer utmost support in European War, 290, 297
Dorsetshire Regiment, 61 Doukhobors, 234
Dowager Empress of China, 121 Downing Street, 79, 83, 106, 184 Dual control of Indian Army, 167-8; its abolition criticized,
Dupleix, 31
Durban, 127, 227
Durbars, 158, 164, 172, 302 Durham, Lord, 66, 75, 92
Dutch, 2, 3, 17, 24, 28, 37, 39, 41, 45, 141
East African Rifles, 262 Eastern lands and political unrest, 254-5 39;
East, French designs on, German ditto, 160, 161-2, 163, 273
East India Company, 1, 31, 33, 38, 43, 45, 50, 57, 60, 61, 62, 109, 112, 172
East Indies, 37, 196
Edward VII, 69, 150, 174; pro-
motes accord with France, 157 Edwards, Maj.-Gen. Bevan, 141, 143 Egypt, 43, 53, 59, 98, 124, 157, 163, 239; British interests, 254; French invasion, 39-40; Nation- alist rising, 54-5, 58; occupied by British and Indians, 255 Egyptian garrisons in Somaliland, 119
Elands River, 133
Elgin, Lord, 46, 50, 77, 108 Elizabeth, Queen, 1, 62 Elliot, Sir Frederick, 75, 83, 84 Emden, raider, 199
Emin Pasha, 262 Empires, war-made, 1
England, slow to expand overseas, 245
English in China, 121
Entente Powers and Austria's ulti-
matum to Serbia, 276 Enver Pasha, 163
Esher Commission, 186
Esquimalt, 89, 90, 104, 217 Euphrates, 64
Eurasians, 109, 265
Europe, no military concern of India (1900), 59; a vital concern (1914), 299
European coalitions against military despotism, 42; volunteers in India, 109
European Legations in Peking be- sieged, 121–2; relieved by mixed forces, 122-3
European world dominance and its reaction, 299-300
Expeditionary Force, British, 253-4
Fenian raid in Canada, 88-9, 92, 95-6 Ferdinand, Archduke Franz, mur- dered, 274
Fielding, Mr., 212-13 Fiji Islands, 242
Fisher, Mr. Andrew, 194, 207, 209 Fitzgerald, Lt.-Col., 259 Flanders clothworkers and English wool, 280
Flying, developed by war, 251 Forbes, 15, 19
Foreign Office, 261, 291 Foreign policy a concern of the Dominions, 209, 211, 215, 219-20, 221, 222
Foresight, an English need, 164-5; professional, of the German dan- ger, 246-7
Forrest, Sir John, 153
Forster, Mr. W. E., 54, 106
Fort Duquesne, 10, 15;
David, 32, 33;
32, 33, 242
Fortescue, Chichester, 85
France, alliances with, 42, 46, 66, 157-8; and Luxemburg, 284;
and New Hebrides, 243 France and the European War: abstains from offensive action, 279; accepts British mediation proposal, 277; accused by Ger- many of design to invade Bel- gium, 287, 288; Ambassador in Berlin, 293; engages to respect Belgian neutrality, 281; in- formed of British policy, 282; orders mobilization, 284; presses Britain to warn Germany, 285-6; promised naval support by Bri- tain, 286, 289; threatened by Germany, 278, 279; war declared by Germany on, 291
France and world dominance, 267, 268, 269
France, Lord Roberts visits, 116 France, British peace with, 8, 42; rivalry with, 159; wars with, 3, 5-7, 9-23, 28, 43, 104 Franco-German Africa, 266
Franco-Russian alliance, 270 Frederick of Prussia, 295 Freedom in Imperial relations, 183; of the seas, 28-9; threatened by military dominance, 299; under British rule, 24, 29, 304-5 Freetown, 104, 242, 261 Fremantle, 199
French and the aeroplane, 251; in Egypt, 39-40, 156; China, 121; South India, 31, 32; mili- tary service law, 273, 274; Presi- dent, 286; reports on war tension in Germany (1913), 272, 273; Revolution, 27, 42; sea record, 252; training of native troops, 259
French-Canadians, 23, 25, 29; anti-militarist feeling, 92; atti- tude on South African War, 129; on Imperial defence, 152, 214-15, 304
French, Lord, 132, 133, 203, 204, 205, 235, 236
French, Maj.-Gen. George, 150 Frere, Sir Bartle, 108
Gallipoli, 201, 233
Gambia Company, 261
Gambia River, 2, 84, 263
Gaselee, General Sir Alfred, 122, 123
Gazette of India, 116, 117 Geelong, 224
George V, 158, 174, 175, 207, 286, 288, 289, 300, 302
German African possessions, 241; Cameroons, 266; Confederation, 284; East Africa, 259, 266; intrigue in South Africa, 24; in Russian politics, 269; lack of psychological insight, 290, 296-7; mercantile marine, 249-50; military union, 140; Navy League, 160; Pacific, 241; preparedness for war, 104, 273, 274, 283; South-West Africa, 266; spy system, 273-4; sub- marines, 161, 250-1; unity, 101, 267; view of British Empire,
Germany, 12, 24, 39, 156, 158, 218, 220; a military despotism, 267, 268; African extensions, 266; area, population, Empire (1914), 241; Army, 252, 253, 273; Army Laws, 273; aspires to world-rule, 160, 266, 268; central position in Europe, 270; compulsory na- tional service, 253; contrasted with British Empire, 241, 296; danger from, foreseen in Britain, 161, 193, 219, 246; England the obstacle, 160, 296-7; evolution of the bid for world-power, 268- 70; forcing process illustrated, 249-50; history and growth from 1870, 159-60, 267, 272-3; militarist aims and ideals, 159–60, 161-2, 268, 269-70; mobiliza- tion, a convenient formula, 283; Naval Laws, 160-1, 218-19; Navy 160-1, 193, 252, 253; peace forces overborne, 272; readiness for war, 274; relations with England, 159, 160, 295, 296; relations with France, 266, 272-3; sense of growing danger precipi- tates the day, 270-1; tariff war with Canada, 177; Triple Alliance, 160; Turkey and the East, 160, 161-2, 163, 273; virtues sacrificed to militarism, 271-2; war feeling in 1913, 272, 273
Germany and the European War : ambiguous attitude in Austro- Serbian crisis, 275, 276, 277; bargains for British neutrality, 278, 281-2, 289, 290-1; begins war by invading Luxemburg, 284, 287; demands passage through Belgium to France, 287-8; de- tains British ships at Hamburg, 286; exploits French and Rus- sian military preparations, 278, 279,282-3; forces on the war, 279, 283-4, 294-5; formally declares war on France, 291; invades Belgium, 291; pleads military necessity for violations of neu- trality, 288, 292-3 Ghent, Treaty of, 30
Gibraltar, 72, 84, 102, 103, 104, 242 Girgeh, 40
Gladstone, Mr., 54, 70, 71, 78, 85, 90, 106, 296
Glengarry Light Infantry, 29, 92
Gordon and Khartoum, 56, 97-8, 100
Gordon, Charles, 47
Gordon Highlanders, 130
Goschen, Sir Edward, 292, 293, 295 Gough, Sir Hugh, 45 Governors, interchange of, 108 Graham, General, 100 Grant, Sir Hope, 46 Granville, Lord, 138
Great Britain: foreign relations after Waterloo, 42; after South African War, 156-8; interest in Bagdad Railway, 162; past friendship with Germany, 295 Great Britain and the European War: assures France of protec- tion against German Fleet, 286; attitude in crisis consistently pacific, 277, 282, 285-6, 289, 294; bargaining as to neutrality de- clined, 278, 289, 293; Belgian neutrality the deciding factor, 281, 291, 294, 300; efforts at peace-making, 277; Fleet kept concentrated, 278; Germany warned against assuming British neutrality if France attacked, 282, 296-7; Government reluct- ance to commit country to war, 285-6, 289, 297, 300; limited concern with Luxemburg, 285; mobilization of Army, 289; Naval Reserves called out, 286; non-committal as to Austria, Serbia, and Russia, 282; Opposi- tion leader urges intervention, 286-7; Parliament leaves Govern- ment free to act, 289-90; Pre- mier on British motive in going to war, 297; protest against de- tention of ships at Hamburg, 286; protest to Germany, fol- lowed by ultimatum, against violation of Belgian neutrality, 291-2; ultimatum negatived, British Ambassador leaves Ber- lin, 292-3; War between British Empire and Germany, 293-5; war supplies voted by Parlia- ment, 297
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