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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Footnote 82:
The daily expenditure of ammunition and artillery details of this
siege will be found in the East-India United Service Journal for 1837.
Footnote 83:
R. A. P. R. A. P.
Lieut.-Colonel 1,032 4 0 752 14 0 per mensem.
Major 789 3 0 580 14 6 per mensem.
Captain 433 10 0 354 13 0 per mensem.
1st Lieutenant 265 12 0 209 14 0 per mensem.
2nd Lieutenant 213 5 0 167 10 6 per mensem.
Footnote 84:
R. A. P.
Lieutenant-Colonel per mensem 827 14 0
Major 580 14 6
Captain 392 5 0
1st Lieutenant 234 14 0
2nd Lieutenant 192 10 6
Footnote 85:
The effect is clearly shown in the brigading the late army of the
Sutlej, where the army, consisting of fifteen cavalry and thirty-seven
infantry regiments, formed into six divisions and sixteen brigades,
was thus commanded:—
Cavalry regiments 3 Queen’s, 12 Company’s
Infantry regiments 8 Queen’s, 29 Company’s
Division Commanders 4 Queen’s, 2 Company’s
Brigade regiments 7 Queen’s, 9 Company’s
Of the cavalry, although four-fifths were Company’s regiments, the
division and three of the brigade commands fell to H.M.’s service.
Footnote 86:
1st company, 3rd battalion, and field-battery.
Detail of golundaz, and 2 6-pounders.
Gwalior contingent battery.
6 18-pounders.
2 8-inch howitzers.
4 8-inch mortars.
Major Bell.
Captain Lane.
Lieut. Buckle, commissary of ordnance.
Lieut. Richardson.
Lieut. Kinleside.
Lieut. Abercrombie.
Lieut. Salmon, adjutant.
Lieut. J. H. Smyth, Gwalior contingent.
Footnote 87:
(No. 6 battery.)
Footnote 88:
Major (now Lieutenant-Colonel) Salter of the cavalry, and Lieutenant
Sturt of the engineers (since killed in action).
Footnote 89:
The highest point surmounted, the Irak pass, was 12,400 feet above the
sea.
Footnote 90:
A good practicable road across the mountains had, ere this, been made.
Footnote 91:
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