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
Matériel organization, and its successive changes—Guns
and carriages first used—Royal pattern—Madras
pattern—Ammunition-carriages—Tumbrils—Horse Artillery
ammunition-carriage—Elevating-screws—Ordnance in
use—Siege-carriages—Howitzer and Mortar combined
carriage—Gribeauval’s pattern—French caisson—Hardwicke’s
pattern—Horse Artillery guns—Mountain-train
carriages—Siege-carriages and ordnance—Royal pattern (block
trail)—Gun and Ammunition carriages introduced, _p._ 163–198.
CHAPTER V.
Reorganization in 1796 of the army—Successive additions to Artillery
companies—Ceylon—Seringapatam—Introduction of Horse
Artillery—Egypt—Deficiency of Artillery—Organization of
1801–2—Composition of the regiment—Foreign service—Sieges of
Sarsnee, Bidgygurh, and Cutchwarah, _p._ 199–248.
CHAPTER VI.
Lord Lake’s Campaigns—Captain Hutchinson’s proceedings in the
neighbourhood of Rampoorah—Sieges of Komona, Gunnourie,
and Adjeegurh—Augmentation by adding Golundaz—Increase
of Horse Artillery—Ordnance-drivers organized—Colonel
Horsford, Commandant—Expeditions to the Isle of France and
Java—Bundlecund Campaigns—Callingur—Gribeauval pattern carriages
introduced—Additional Golundaz companies—Head-quarters removed to
Dum-Dum, _p._ 249–311.
CHAPTER VII.
Campaigns against the Goorkhas—Rocket Troop raised—Bombardment of
Hattrass—Death of Sir John Horsford—Ordnance General Officers
debarred the General Staff—Conceded to them—Guns formed into
Batteries—Organization of 1818—Pindarrie and Mahratta Campaigns—Gun
Carriage Agency—Ordnance Commissariat Department—Commandants’
position improved—Model Department—Select Committee formed—Reduction
of Lascars—Increase to Golundaz—Battalion system introduced into
Bengal—Burmese War—Siege of Bhurtpoor—Increase to the Regiment, _p._
312–391.
CHAPTER VIII.
Reductions—Half-batta order—Further reductions—Brevet of Colonel given
to Lieutenant-Colonels Commandant—Alterations in uniform—Shekawuttee
Campaign—Establishment of Retiring Fund—The Afghan Campaign—Capture
of Ghuznee—Services of the Artillery—March to Bamean—Our disasters
at Caubul—Nichol’s troop—The Army of Retribution—Pollock’s
force—Honours to the Artillery, _p._ 392–451.
CHAPTER IX.
State of affairs at Gwalior—The Army of Exercise—The battle of
Maharajpore—Want of heavy ordnance—The Battle of Punniah—The Gwalior
contingent—Honours conferred on the Artillery—The Ordnance
Commissariat remodelled—The Artillery in Sindh—Reorganization of the
Regiment—Increase of horse-batteries, _p._ 452–466.
CHAPTER X.
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