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HISTORY OF THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY. VOL. II.
Major-General Sir Alexander J. Dickson,
HISTORY OF THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY. COMPILED FROM THE ORIGINAL RECORDS. By CAPTAIN FRANCIS DUNCAN, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D., ROYAL ARTILLERY. SUPERINTENDENT OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY REGIMENTAL RECORDS; FELLOW OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, AND OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. “L’histoire de l’Artillerie est l’histoire du progrès des sciences, et partant de la civilisation.” Napoleon III. Chislehurst, Nov. 22, 1872. VOLUME II. WITH A FRONTISPIECE. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1873. The right of Translation is reserved.
TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS FIELD-MARSHAL THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE, K.G., G.C.B., K.P., G.C.M.G., COLONEL OF THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY, THIS HISTORY OF ITS SERVICES IS RESPECTFULLY, AND BY PERMISSION, DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR.
PREFACE.
CONTENTS OF VOL. II.
INTRODUCTION.
HISTORY OF THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY.
CHAPTER I. Reaction.
CHAPTER II. The Necessity, Birth, and Progress of the Royal Horse Artillery.
CHAPTER III. With the Duke of York in Flanders.
CHAPTER IV. 1796 to 1799.
CHAPTER V. The Christening of the Chestnut Troop.
CHAPTER VI. Egypt.
Some Remarks on the foregoing Articles.
CHAPTER VII. To 1803.
CHAPTER VIII. The Eighth Battalion.
No. 1 COMPANY, 8th BATTALION, Now “H” BATTERY, 1st BRIGADE, R.A.10
No. 2 COMPANY, 8th BATTALION, Now “H” BATTERY, 11th BRIGADE, R.A.
No. 3 COMPANY, 8th BATTALION,11 Afterwards “1” Battery, 11th Brigade; “3” Battery, 14th Brigade; “C” Battery, 14th Brigade, and “8” Battery, 13th Brigade. (Vide vol. i. p. 441.)
No. 4 COMPANY, 8th BATTALION, Now “7” BATTERY, 12th BRIGADE, R.A.
No. 5 COMPANY, 8th BATTALION, Now “G” BATTERY, 1st BRIGADE, R.A.
No. 6 COMPANY, 8th BATTALION, Now “D” BATTERY, 9th BRIGADE, R.A.
No. 7 COMPANY, 8th BATTALION, Now “H” BATTERY, 8th BRIGADE, R.A.
No. 8 COMPANY, 8th BATTALION, Now “1” BATTERY, 7th BRIGADE, R.A.
No. 9 COMPANY, 8th BATTALION, Now “7” BATTERY, 17th BRIGADE, R.A.
No. 10 COMPANY, 8th BATTALION, Reduced at Woolwich on 28th February, 1819.
CHAPTER IX. The Ninth Battalion.
No. 1 COMPANY, 9th BATTALION, Now “G” BATTERY, 9th BRIGADE, R.A.
No. 2 COMPANY, 9th BATTALION, Now “E” BATTERY, 8th BRIGADE, R.A.
No. 3 COMPANY, 9th BATTALION, Afterwards “8” Battery, 11th Brigade; then “7” Battery, 14th Brigade; then “G” Battery, 14th Brigade; Now “B” BATTERY, 14th BRIGADE, R.A.
No. 4 COMPANY, 9th BATTALION, Now “6” BATTERY, 12th BRIGADE, R.A.
No. 5 COMPANY, 9th BATTALION, Now “2” BATTERY, 3rd BRIGADE, R.A.
No. 6 COMPANY, 9th BATTALION, Reduced 28th February, 1819.
No. 7 COMPANY, 9th BATTALION.
“C” BATTERY, 14th BRIGADE, R.A.
No. 8 COMPANY, 9th BATTALION.
No. 9 COMPANY, 9th BATTALION.
No. 10 COMPANY, 9th BATTALION.
“E” BATTERY, 9th BRIGADE, R.A.
CHAPTER X. The Siege of Copenhagen.
CHAPTER XI. Monte Video and Buenos Ayres.
CHAPTER XII. The Old Tenth Battalion.
Extract from Division Orders by the Earl of Dalhousie.
CHAPTER XIII. Peninsular War—Roliça, Vimiera, Corunna.
CHAPTER XIV. Walcheren.
CHAPTER XV. Peninsular War resumed.—Passage of the Douro, and Talavera.
CHAPTER XVI. Busaco and Torres Vedras.
1.—ROYAL ARTILLERY.
II.-FIELD TRAIN.
III.-ROYAL ARTILLERY DRIVERS.
IV.—ROYAL FOREIGN ARTILLERY.
V.—ARTILLERY OF THE KING’S GERMAN LEGION.
CHAPTER XVII. Barossa, Badajoz, and Albuera.
TABLE A.26 First Siege of Badajoz.
TABLE B.
Attack Against the Castle. Major Dickson commanding.
CHAPTER XVIII. Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz.
CHAPTER XIX. Salamanca and Burgos.
Lieutenant-Colonel Robe, commanding.
CHAPTER XX. Vittoria and San Sebastian.
CHAPTER XXI. Conclusion of the Peninsular War.
CHAPTER XXII. The Second American War.
Nominal List of Officers, Royal Artillery.
CHAPTER XXIII. Waterloo.
This and all the other Field Brigades were armed, each with five 9-pounders and one 5½-inch howitzer.
APPENDICES. APPENDIX A. The Duke of Wellington, and the Artillery at Waterloo.
“To the Earl of Mulgrave.
APPENDIX B. The Royal Artillery and the Magnetic Survey of the Globe.
APPENDIX C.
NOTES TO APPENDIX C.
INDEX TO VOL. I.
ERRATA IN FIRST EDITION OF VOL. I.
ADDENDA TO FIRST EDITION OF VOL I.
INDEX TO VOL. II.
FOOTNOTES:
Transcriber’s Note:
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