Index 391Belgium, 187, 194, 195, 197, 198, 213,
235, 305, 306, 328. See also Low Coun
tries
Bell, A. C, 323
Bence-Jones, M., 152
Berdrow, W., 273
Beresford, C., admiral, 286, 296, 298
Bergeron, L., 202
Berghahn, V. R., 303
Berlin, 165, 167, 177, 210, 246, 248
Bernhardt, W., 351
Bertaud, J.-P., 192
Bessemer, Sir Henry, 237, 238
Best, G., 303
Bethmann-Hollweg, T. von, 305
Beveridge, W., 343
Bielenstein, H., 18
Bien, D., 173
Birch, A., 212
Birmingham, 232, 234, 236
Bismarck, O. von, 247, 249, 250, 252,
306
Black, C, 313, 316
Blackett, P. M. S., 358
Blackmore, H. L., 142, 231
Black Sea, 71, 136, 226, 230
Blackwell, W. L., 176
Blast furnaces, 26, 33, 45, 86, 122, 169,
175, 206, 211, 266, 318
Blitzkrieg, 333, 334, 349, 351
Blockade: 1806–12: 202; in World War I;
322–24, 327, 328, 340, 351; in World
War II: 352
Blücher, G. L. von, general, 218
Boelke, W. A., 238, 273, 301
Boer War (1899–1902), 272, 276
Bohannan, P., 153
Bohemia, 65, 71, 87, 119, 120, 121, 122,
249, 250. See also Czechoslovakia
Bond, B., 256, 257
Boniface VIII, pope, 68
Bonneval, C.-A. de, 147
Borah, W. W., 150
Bordeaux, 150
Borneo, 44
Bosnia, 71
Bosphorus, 71
Boulanger, G., general, 275
Boulogne, 199, 220
Bourbons, 213, 221
Bourçet, P., general, 162
Bourne, K., 302
Bowler, R. A., 184
Bows: compound, 10, 16, 18, 38; cross
bows, 20, 33, 36–37, 38, 67, 68, 80, 82,
99; longbows, 36, 82
Braeman, J., 349, 350
Brass, 86, 87, 273
Braudel, F., 102
Braun, W. von, 220
Brazil, 149, 297
Breitenfeld, battle of, 123
Brescia, 236
Brest, 180
Brinton, C., 192
Bristol, 150
Britain, ancient, 11, 26. See also England;
Great Britain
British Columbia, 302
British Expeditionary Force (BEF), 326
Brodie, B., 228, 241
Bronze, 1, 5, 9, 10, 86–87, 203, 255
Brown, R. G., 145
Bruges, 70
Brunet, J. B., 175
Brusten, C., 89
Buddhist, Buddhism, 53, 56
Bueb, V., 264, 284
Bulgaria, 313, 328
Bülow, B. von, prince, 304
Burchardt, L., 323
Bureaucracy, 4–5, 13–14, 21–22, 34, 36,
46–49, 58, 111, 150–51, 154, 158,268,
292–94, 337–38, 34^-45, 360, 376–77,
382, 386; bureaucratization of armed
force, 77–79, 109–11, 125, 139–41,
144, 164, 171, 199–200, 217–19,
248–49
Burgundy, 83, 87–89, 155
Burma, 60, 356, 363
Burn, D. L., 299
Büsch, O., 155
Bushnell, J., 259
Byzantium, Byzantine, 19, 58, 65, 66
Caffa, 70
Caldwell, C. E., 240, 273
Cameron, R., 301
Canada, 155, 157, 181, 208
Canals, 27, 28, 32, 33, 42, 154, 163,
175, 207, 303; Grand Canal of China,
30, 31, 44, 46, 47, 48; Kiel, 303
Cannon, 61, 81–89, 95, 98, 99–101, 112,
120, 149, 150, 166, 167, 168–69, 171,
175, 176, 177, 179, 202, 205, 211,
212, 225, 240, 241, 245, 247
Capitalism, capitalists, 45, 47, 49, 50, 66,
87, 113, 116, 150–51, 176–82, 203,