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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│ Per │Total
│Comp. │
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Major. │ │ 1
────────────────────┼──────┼──────
Captain. │ 1│ 4
────────────────────┼──────┼──────
Capt.-Lieut. │ 1│ 4
────────────────────┼──────┼──────
1st Lieut. │ 1│ 4
────────────────────┼──────┼──────
2nd Lieut. │ 1│ 4
────────────────────┼──────┼──────
Lieut. Fireworkers. │ 3│ 12
────────────────────┼──────┼──────
Serjeants. │ 6│ 24
────────────────────┼──────┼──────
Corporals. │ 6│ 24
────────────────────┼──────┼──────
Drummers. │ 3│ 12
────────────────────┼──────┼──────
Bombardiers. │ 8│ 32
────────────────────┼──────┼──────
Gunners. │ 24│ 96
────────────────────┼──────┼──────
Matrosses. │ 53│ 212
────────────────────┼──────┼──────
Adjut. & Qr.-Master.│ 1│ 4
────────────────────┼──────┼──────
Deputy Comr. │ 1│ 4
────────────────────┼──────┼──────
Conductors. │ 2│ 8
────────────────────┼──────┼──────
Serj.-Major. │ 1│ 4
────────────────────┼──────┼──────
Qr-Mast. Serjt. │1[114]│ 4
Footnote 12:
In consequence of this want, the recent mutiny and perhaps the
inefficiency of some of the officers of the corps. Russell, Baillie,
and Thelwall came into the corps from Madras; Rosat and Burnett from
H.M.S. _Folly_, from Bencoolen.
Footnote 13:
With a staff of 1 surveyor of stores, 1 regimental adjutant, 5
adjutants and quarter-masters, and 12 conductors.
Footnote 14:
Cadets.
Footnote 15:
Since writing the above, the want is being supplied by some spirited
articles in the Calcutta Quarterly [Review].
Footnote 16:
The Cutcha road was formed (of its present breadth) in 1782–3.—Colonel
Green’s Letter, 21st October, 1801.
Footnote 17:
Was there not a member of council of that name?
Footnote 18:
In all probability this formed the regular road to Berhampore.
Footnote 19:
Captain Macklewaine, Captain-Lieutenant Scott, Lieutenants Legertwood,
Hart, Glass, and Baillie.
Footnote 20:
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