English Warfare 1511-1642 Book

	List of illustrations
	Preface
	Abbreviations
1	The early Tudor art of war on the Continent	1
	Early Henrician expeditions to the Continent	4
	Henry VIII and an armed citizenry	8
	The French campaign of 1544: Henrician strategy and royal finance	13
	The post-Henrician military dilemma	19
2	The early Tudor art of war in the British Isles	21
	Henrician warfare and the Scots	21
	Edwardian actions against Scotland in 1547	29
	The logistical challenge: garrisons, victualling and fortresses	34
	The earlier Tudors in Ireland, 1520-53	41
	Tudor ordnance	43
	An English art of war	47
3	The defence of the shire: lieutenancy	50
	How lieutenancy worked: the Lords Lieutenants	50
	Deputy lieutenants	53
	Defending against the Armadas	56
	The militia as defender of the realm	61
	Muster-masters and military charges	67
	Lieutenancy as an early Stuart political issue	71
	The privileges of the English militia	76
4	The defence of the realm: impressment and mobilisation	82
	Elizabethan levies and the institutionalisation of impressment	85
	Sir John Smythe, Catholic conspiracy, and the deleterious effects of impressment	91
	Pressed English soldiers in the Irish theatre	96
	Billeting and impressment under the early Stuarts	105
5	Elizabethan warfare in the North, 1560-73	114
	Countering the French threat in Scotland, 1560-1	114
	The assault on Leith	117
	The northern rising of 1569-70	123
	The 1569 rebellion and the wars of religion	128
	The sieges of Barnard Castle (1569) and Edinburgh Castle (1573)	131
6	Elizabethan warfare in the Netherlands, 1572-92	137
	Elizabeth and the wars of religion	137
	The Earl of Leicester's campaign, 1585-6	142
	Mustering English companies on the Continent	146
7	Elizabethan and Jacobean allied operations on the Continent, 1587-1622	154
	The continental reputation of English fighting men	154
	The Portugal expedition of 1589: English warfare on sea and land	158
	English warfare in France, 1589-91	161
	English soldiers at Turnhout (1597) and Nieuwpoort (1600)	170
	The English school of war	177
8	Ordnance and logistics, 1511-1642	181
	The English and continental siegecraft	181
	The Ordnance Office and English military architecture	188
	Victualling and logistics, 1550-1640	193
9	Hibernian warfare under the Tudors, 1558-1601	207
	English warfare in Ireland, 1561-95	208
	The rebellion of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, 1595-1601	216
	From the Yellow Ford to Kinsale	226
10	The Irish military establishment, 1603-42	236
	The early Stuart peace in Ireland	236
	Rebellion and civil war	246
11	The Caroline art of war	255
	Early Stuart continental warfare and the Cadiz expedition	255
	The Isle of Rhe expedition	261
	Military failure and Personal Rule'	269
	The Bishops' Wars and after	272
12	English warfare turned upon itself	282
	An English art of war	282
	English armies and multiple kingdoms	294
	Notes	304
	Bibliographical essay	363
	Index	370