Produced by Brian Coe, Wayne Hammond and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) HISTORY OF THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY. VOL. II. [Illustration: MAJOR-GENERAL SIR ALEXANDER J. DICKSON, G.C.B. AND K.C.H., DEPUTY ADJUTANT-GENERAL, ROYAL ARTILLERY, AND DIRECTOR GENERAL OF ARTILLERY.] HISTORY OF THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY. COMPILED FROM THE ORIGINAL RECORDS. BY CAPTAIN FRANCIS DUNCAN, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D., ROYAL ARTILLERY. SUPERINTENDENT OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY REGIMENTAL RECORDS; FELLOW OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, AND OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. [Illustration] “L’histoire de l’Artillerie est l’histoire du progrès des sciences, et partant de la civilisation.” NAPOLEON III. _Chislehurst, Nov. 22, 1872_. VOLUME II. WITH A FRONTISPIECE. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1873. _The right of Translation is reserved._ LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS FIELD-MARSHAL THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE, K.G., G.C.B., K.P., G.C.M.G., COLONEL OF THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY, THIS HISTORY OF ITS SERVICES IS RESPECTFULLY, AND BY PERMISSION, DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. Unforeseen circumstances having arisen since the publication of the First Volume of this work, which rendered it possible that the Author might be unable to complete the narrative while holding the appointment of Superintendent of the Regimental Records, it has become necessary to modify the original plan. There were two alternatives,--either to compress the history between 1783 and the present date into one volume, sacrificing many matters of minor interest,--or to write, as fully as in the former volume, the history of a period additional to that already treated of, leaving the subsequent years and their campaigns to be described either by the Author’s successor, or by himself at some future time. After consultation with some of the senior officers of the Corps, the latter alternative has been adopted; and the addition of certain statistical tables, and of a copious index to both volumes, will, it is hoped, render the work, as far as it goes, a complete one. Unless anticipated by an abler pen, the Author does not despair of being able to avail himself at some future time of the continued access to the Regimental Records, now systematically arranged, which has been promised to him by the Deputy Adjutant-General of the Corps,--with a view to compiling narratives of the War in the Crimea, and of the Indian Mutiny. * * * * *