Produced by KD Weeks, Brian Coe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Footnotes have been moved to follow the chapters in which they are referenced. In the printed text, the numbering of footnotes began again at ‘1’ for each chapter. In this version, footnotes have been re-sequenced across the text for uniqueness of reference. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: Royal Sappers & Miners Plate XVI. Uniform 1854. Printed by M & N Hanhart. ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HISTORY OF THE ROYAL SAPPERS AND MINERS, FROM THE FORMATION OF THE CORPS IN MARCH 1772, TO THE DATE WHEN ITS DESIGNATION WAS CHANGED TO THAT OF ROYAL ENGINEERS, IN OCTOBER 1856. BY T. W. J. CONNOLLY, QUARTERMASTER OF THE ROYAL ENGINEERS. “Of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents, by flood and field; Of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach.”—_Shakspeare._ “There is a corps which is often about him, unseen and unsuspected, and which is labouring as hard for him in peace as others do in war.”—_The Times._ =With Seventeen Coloured Illustrations.= _SECOND EDITION, WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS._ IN TWO VOLUMES.—VOL. II. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS, AND ROBERTS. 1857. LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. CONTENTS OF VOL. II. ------------------ 1848. PAGE