E-text prepared by Richard Tonsing, Brian Coe, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 59595-h.htm or 59595-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/59595/59595-h/59595-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/59595/59595-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/memoirofservices00buck Transcriber’s note: Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter. Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). MEMOIR OF THE SERVICES OF THE BENGAL ARTILLERY, From the Formation of the Corps to The Present Time, with Some Account of Its Internal Organization. By the late CAPTAIN E. BUCKLE, Assist. Adj.-Gen., Bengal Artillery. Edited By J. W. Kaye, Late Lieut. Bengal Artillery. London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 7, Leadenhall Street. 1852. Printed by Cox (Brothers) and Wyman, Great Queen Street, Lincoln’S-Inn Fields. TO LIEUT.-GEN. SIR GEORGE POLLOCK, G.C.B. OF THE BENGAL ARTILLERY, THIS MEMOIR OF THE SERVICES OF A CORPS OF WHICH HE IS SO DISTINGUISHED A MEMBER, IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED BY HIS SINCERE FRIEND AND ADMIRER, THE EDITOR. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR. The circumstances under which the greater portion of this Memoir was written, are set forth so truthfully in the following passages, taken from an Indian periodical, that I cannot do better than transcribe them:—