HISTORY OF THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY. COMPILED FROM THE ORIGINAL RECORDS. BY CAPTAIN FRANCIS DUNCAN, M.A., D.C.L. ROYAL ARTILLERY. SUPERINTENDENT OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY REGIMENTAL RECORDS; FELLOW OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, AND THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. [Illustration] VOL. I.—_TO THE PEACE OF 1783._ WITH A PORTRAIT. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1872. _The right of Translation is reserved._ [Illustration: ALBERT BORGARD. FIRST COLONEL OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY ] LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. 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 TO THIRD EDITION. A FURTHER reorganization of the Royal Artillery, involving alterations in the nomenclature of Batteries, having taken place since the publication of the Second Edition, the Author has deemed it desirable to issue a Third, with tables added to Appendix C, in the Second Volume, which will enable the reader to keep up the continuity. These frequent changes are embarrassing to the student of history, but in the present instance the change has been distinctly advantageous in an administrative point of view. WOOLWICH. _October, 1879._ PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. THE unexpected favour accorded to the first edition of this work having already rendered a second necessary, the author has taken the opportunity of making many corrections and additions, and of embodying the indices of both volumes in one. The history, as it now stands, represents the services of the Corps in detail as far as the year 1815, and gives a summary of the services of those batteries now in existence, which represent the troops and companies of the old Royal Horse Artillery, and of the nine senior battalions of the Royal Artillery. The tables at the end of both volumes will also assist the reader in tracing the antecedents of every battery in the Regiment. * * * * *