─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 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 Thomas Hare. 1790 Captain T. Seward. 1796 Captain C. W. Thornton. 1797 Captain E. Trelawney. 1799 Captain G. Wulff. 1804 Captain W. Caddy. 1817 Captain C. Bridge. 1817 Captain A. Bredin. 1820 Captain George Turner. 1825 Captain W. Greene. 1830 Captain F. R. Chesney. 1842 Captain D. Thorndike. 1850 Captain John Henry Lefroy. 1854 Captain A. C. Hawkins. 1855 Captain S. Robinson. 1855 Captain A. C. L. Fitzroy. No. 8 COMPANY, 4th BATTALION, Now "E" BATTERY, 1st BRIGADE. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 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 affair of Peek's Hill. 1777 Action near Westfield. 1777 Battle of Brandywine, and occupation of Philadelphia. 1778 Evacuation of Philadelphia, and Battle of Freehold Court. 1778 Detachment present at Capture of Savannah. 1779 Capture of Stoney Point on the Hudson. 1779 General Matthews' raid in Virginia. 1780 Capture of Charlestown, and operations in North Carolina. 1781 Detachments present at Surrender of Yorktown. 1803 War in Ceylon, ending in total defeat of the native king of Kandy. 1811 Expedition against Java, and capture of the Island. 1854 Siege of Sebastopol. (The Captain of the Company, A. Oldfield, was killed in the trenches.)