No. 10 COMPANY, 4th BATTALION, AFTERWARDS "8" BATTERY, 12th BRIGADE, Now "5" BATTERY, 12th BRIGADE. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Battles, Sieges, and other Military operations in which this Company has been engaged. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 1812-13 Second American War. Engaged in nearly every operation on the American frontier, repeatedly mentioned in Orders, and by General Order was permitted to wear the designation "Niagara." 1815-16 Present with the Duke of Wellington's Army, but took no active part, remaining in garrison at Tournay. 1855 Crimea. _N.B._—No. 8 Battery, 12th Brigade, R. A., was _nominally_ reduced on 1st Feb., 1871: but as No. 5 Battery of that Brigade was _really_ reduced, and the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men, of No. 8 Battery were transferred to No. 5, it seems just to perpetuate No. 8 Battery. The arms, books, &c., of No. 8 were also transferred to No. 5. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── List of Captains who have successively commanded the Company, as far back as can be traced, down to introduction of Brigade System, in 1859. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 1783 Captain W. Godwin. 1787 Captain B. Marlow. 1794 Captain William Borthwick. 1794 Captain George Glasgow. 1800 Captain R. Dickinson. 1806 Captain E. Curry. 1808 Captain William Holcroft. 1816 Captain Joseph Brome. Reduced in 1819. Reformed in 1848. 1848 Captain H. S. Rowan. Became 6th Company 12th Battalion in November, 1848. 1854 Captain Hamley. 1858 Captain Macdougal. 1859 Captain Boothby. ----- Footnote 25: At the capture of St. Sebastian, ten men of this Company volunteered for the storming party, and were instrumental in deciding the fate of the attack by the gallant style in which they turned two of the enemy's guns upon the garrison, driving the defenders from the works. CHAPTER XXIV. THE JOURNAL OF A FEW YEARS. FOR a few years after the formation of the Fourth Battalion, the History of the Regiment contains little that possesses more than domestic interest. It was the stillness which precedes a storm. In 1775, the Titanic contest commenced, in which England found herself pitted against France, Spain, and her own children. From that year, until 1783, the student of her military history finds his labour incessant. America and Europe alike claim his attention; the War of Independence, and the Sieges of Gibraltar and Port Mahon, furnish a wealth of material for his examination.