─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── List of Captains who have successively commanded the Company, as far back as can be traced, down to introduction of Brigade System, in 1859. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 1759 Captain John Dovers. 1771 Captain William Johnstone. 1779 Captain James Sowerby. 1793 Captain Edward Howorth. 1793 Captain John Wilks. 1799 Captain John Duncan. 1803 Captain Charles C. Bingham. 1803 Captain Peter Fyers. 1813 Captain Lewis Carmichael. 1814 Captain Charles F. Sandham. No. 10 COMPANY, 3rd BATTALION, _Reduced 1819._ ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Battles, Sieges, and other Military operations in which this Company has been engaged. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 1791-1802 West Indies. Engaged at the taking of the Island of Tobago, April, 1793. Martinique, March, 1794. Saint Lucia, April, 1794. Guadaloupe, April, 1794. Saint Lucia (2nd time), April, 1796. Trinidad, February, 1797. Porto Rico, May, 1797. Surinam, August, 1799. 1809 Expedition to Walcheren, and Siege of Flushing. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── List of Captains who have successively commanded the Company, as far back as can be traced, down to introduction of Brigade System, in 1859. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 1758 Captain William McLeod. * * * * * 1779 Captain David Vans. 1780 Captain William Tiffin. 1782 Captain Alexander Mackenzie. 1791 Captain Frederick Irwin. 1793 Captain Samuel D. Edwards. 1796 Captain Richard Hamilton. 1804 Captain Henry Marsh. 1813 Captain John Chester. 1816 Captain Thomas V. Straubenzee. CHAPTER XXI. THE SIEGE OF BELLEISLE. ALTHOUGH the History of the Royal Artillery is the history of England's campaigns since the existence of the Regiment, there are occasional chapters in these wars more interesting to the Artilleryman, than to the ordinary military student, or the general reader. There have been events which have had no perceptible effect on the progress of the campaigns, and yet are indissolubly woven in our Regimental annals. Of such events the siege of Belleisle is a type.