Memoir of the Services of the Bengal Artillery: From the Formation of the Corps to the Present Time, with Some Account of Its Internal OrganizationBuckle, E. (Edmond)
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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
Buckle, E. (Edmond)
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947; India -- History, Military; India. Army. Bengal Artillery
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Company. │Battalion.│Captain-Lieutenants.│Lieutenants.│Lieutenant-Fireworkers.
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2 │ 2 │Fraser │Croxton │G. R. Scott
│ │ │ │R. B. Wilson
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3 │ 2 │Curphy │Pereira │Hele, Vanrenen
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4 │ 2 │Pryce │Carne │Sanders, Crommelin
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6 │ 2 │Lindsay │Roberts │Coulthard
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4 │ 3 │ │L. Lawrence │Smith, Whinfield
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6 │ 3 │Battine │Fordyce │R. Dickson, Delafosse
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7 │ 3 │Tollemache │Timbrell │Wood, E. P. Gowan
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1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th companies of golundaz battalion; 1st, 5th, 6th, 8th,
12th, 18th, 20th, 27th, 30th, 31st, 32nd, 37th, 38th, 40th, 41st, 43rd, 44th,
and 45th companies of gun lascars.
The force assembled on the 11th February, and from that time till the
21st was employed in collecting and preparing _matériel_ for the siege
and waiting for the train; on its arrival, three batteries were erected
against the kuttra, which opened on the 22nd, and continued firing
during the 23rd: a breach was effected, and during the night the enemy
left the kuttra.
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