An Apprenticeship in Arms: The Origins of the British Army 1585-1702

Table of contents

• An Apprenticeship in Arms i
• Title Page iii
• Preface vii
• Acknowledgements x
• Contents xi
• List of Tables xiii
• List of Maps xiv
• Note on the Text xv
• Abbreviations xvi
• Part I - A Military Apprenticeship 1585–1640 1
• 1 - The Irish Wars 3
• 2 - The Low-Countries Wars 24
• 3 - British Manpower and the States’ Army 41
• 4 - Recruiting in the British Isles for Mainland European Armies 62
• 5 - Military and Naval Expeditions of the 1620s 94
• 6 - The Campus Martius- The Domestic School of War 126
• Part II - The Experience of Civil War 1640–1660 157
• 7 - Mercenaries and Gentlemen 159
• 8 - Raising and Organizing Standing Armies 180
• 9 - Atrocity, Plunder and Discipline 205
• 10 - The Civil Wars in Ireland and Scotland 231
• Part III - The Decay of a Military Tradition 1660–1688 261
• 11 - Standing Armies in the Three Kingdoms 263
• 12 - The Decay of the Militia 290
• 13 - English, Irish and Scots in Mainland European Armies 314
• Part IV - The Recovery of a Military Tradition 1688–1702 343
• 14 - The Descent on England 345
• 15 - The Williamite Conquest of Scotland and Ireland 371
• 16 - The Nine Years War 400
• 17 - Conclusion- Military Professionalism 430
• Select Bibliography 445
• Index 457

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