The companies were fettered to a beleaguered head-quarters, which in its turn was tied and bound to a distant department, nor was allowed the slightest independence of action. The result may easily be imagined. Questions which could have been decided in a few minutes, if those interested could have met, grew every day more complicated and unwieldy by the correspondence at long and uncertain intervals in which the Board of Ordnance revelled. The services of the companies will now be given, in the same manner as those of the other battalions. There are few lists more noble than that of the military operations in which No. 1 Company was engaged. The battery—No. 4 of the 7th Brigade—whose history this is, may well be proud of such noble antecedents. The revival of these may prove a means of awakening a pride in its ranks which will be the strongest aid to discipline, the most powerful incentive to progress. The succession of Captains of the various companies, as far as the somewhat mutilated records on this point will admit, will also be given, down to the time when the nomenclature of the companies was changed, since which date, so recent, no difficulty will be found in continuing the lists. No. 1 COMPANY, 4th BATTALION, Now "4" BATTERY, 7th BRIGADE. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Battles, Sieges, and other Military operations in which this Company has been engaged. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 1775 Battle of Bunker's Hill. 1776 Siege of Boston. 1776 Battle of Brooklyn, and capture of Horan's Hook. 1776 Occupation of New York. 1776 Battle of White Plains. 1776 Capture of Fort Washington and Fort Lee. 1776 Expedition against Charleston. 1777 Operations in the Jerseys under Lord Cornwallis. 1777 Affair of Westfield: defeat of Americans. 1777 Battle of Brandywine: ditto. 1777 Occupation of Philadelphia. 1777 Battle of Freehold Court: defeat of Americans. 1777 Capture of Savannah, and defeat of American General Howe— detachments only present. 1779 Capture of Stoney Point on the Hudson. 1779 General Matthews' successful raid in Virginia. 1780 Capture of Charlestown, and operations in North Carolina. 1781 Detachments were present at Yorktown when Lord Cornwallis capitulated. 1793 Expedition to the Netherlands under H. R. H. the Duke of York: present at Siege and Capture of Valenciennes. 1793 Affair of Lincelles. 1793 Siege of Dunkirk. 1793 Affairs of Lannoy and Marchiennes. 1794 Severe engagement at Vaux. (The Company thanked in General Orders, and marched past the Duke on the field of battle.) 1794 Affairs of Cateau and Landrecy. 1794 Retreat from Lannoy, &c. 1794 Engagement of 22nd May.