─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Battles, Sieges, and other Military operations in which this Company has been engaged. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 1775 Defence of Quebec against Americans under General Arnold. 1777 Battle of Brandywine. 1777 Occupation of Philadelphia. 1777 Defeat of Americans at Germantown. 1778 Ditto at Battle of Freehold Court, after Evacuation of Philadelphia. 1778 Detachments present at Capture of Savannah. 1779 Detachments present at Capture of Stoney Point on the Hudson. 1780 Capture of Charlestown, and operations in North Carolina. 1795 Cape of Good Hope: Expedition under General Craig. 1801 Siege and Capture of Alexandria, and expulsion of French from Egypt (detachments only). 1807 Expedition against Madeira. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── List of Captains who have successively commanded the Company, as far back as can be traced, down to introduction of Brigade System, in 1859. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── * * * * * 1786 Captain F. M. Keith. 1790 Captain J. H. Yorke. 1796 Captain George Koehler. 1797 Captain W. Wilson. 1802 Captain Edward Hope. 1803 Captain W. Scott. 1812 Captain W. R. Carey. 1815 Captain E. C. Wilford. 1817 Captain James Addams. 1825 Captain E. T. Michell. 1835 Captain Thomas Dyneley. 1837 Captain W. Elgee. 1846 Captain Henry S. Tireman. 1847 Captain S. P. Townsend. 1849 Captain St. John T. Browne. * * * * * No. 4 COMPANY, 4th BATTALION, AFTERWARDS "8" BATTERY, 1st BRIGADE. _Reduced 1st April, 1869._