─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Battles, Sieges, and other Military operations in which this Company has been engaged. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 1775 Battle of Bunker's Hill. 1776 Defence of Boston. 1776 Battle of Brooklyn. 1776 Capture of Horan's Hook. 1776 Occupation of New York. 1776 Battle of White Plains. (Thanked in Orders.) 1776 Capture of Fort Washington and Fort Lee. 1777 Operations in the Jerseys under Lord Cornwallis, and action near Westfield. 1779 Capture of Stoney Point on the Hudson. 1779 General Matthews' raid in Virginia. 1780 Expedition to South Carolina. 1794 War in Flanders, including actions at Alost and Malines, and defence of Nimeguen. 1796 Capture of St. Lucia, St. Vincent's, and Grenada. 1803 Capture of St. Lucia and Tobago. 1804 Capture of Demerara. _N.B._—A detachment of this Company embarked on board Lord Nelson's fleet from Barbadoes to assist in working the guns. 1809-1810 Capture of Martinique and Guadaloupe. 1815 Occupation of Paris. 1842 to Engaged at Cape of Good Hope in the operations against the 1848 insurgent Boers and Kaffirs. 1855 Siege of Sebastopol. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 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 Charles Wood. 1787 Captain George Abson. 1792 Captain Ashton Shuttleworth. 1795 Captain Robert Hope. 1802 Captain W. Wilson. 1804 Captain W. Payne. 1805 Captain W. Millar. 1805 Captain Charles Younghusband. * * * * * 1823 Captain G. C. Coffin. * * * * * 1836 Captain E. Sheppard. 1837 Captain J. M. Stephens. 1840 Captain G. G. Palmer. 1841 Captain Henry Pallisser. 1848 Captain W. H. Elliot. 1855 Captain G. H. L. Milman. No. 6 COMPANY, 4th BATTALION, Now "1" BATTERY, 6th BRIGADE.