──────────────────────────────┼─────────────┼────────────────── Drill-Corporals. │ 5│ 〃 〃 ──────────────────────────────┼─────────────┼────────────────── Drum-Major. │ 3│ 2 ──────────────────────────────┼─────────────┼────────────────── Fife-Major. │ 3│ 1 ──────────────────────────────┼─────────────┼────────────────── Serjeants. │ 60│ 71 ──────────────────────────────┼─────────────┼────────────────── Corporals. │ 60│ 59 ──────────────────────────────┼─────────────┼────────────────── Gunners. │ 120│ 825 ──────────────────────────────┼─────────────┼────────────────── Matrosses. │ 840│ 〃 〃 ──────────────────────────────┼─────────────┼────────────────── Drummers. │ 30│ 32 ──────────────────────────────┼─────────────┼────────────────── Serangs. │ 30│ 27 ──────────────────────────────┼─────────────┼────────────────── 1st Tindals. │ 60│ 60 ──────────────────────────────┼─────────────┼────────────────── 2nd Tindals. │ 60│ 54 ──────────────────────────────┼─────────────┼────────────────── Lascars. │ 1680│ 1679 ──────────────────────────────┴─────────────┴────────────────── The right hand line is actual strength, taken from the returns of the regiment for August, 1786. CHAPTER III. Artillery, one of the brigades of the army—An Infantry Officer, Brigade-Major—Succeeded by an Artillery Officer—Dress—School orders—School—Inoculation—Companies numbered by seniority—Method of exploding mortar-shells on reaching the ground—Fire in the arsenal—Death of Colonel Pearse—Lieut.-Colonel G. Deare, Commandant—War in the Carnatic—Second Battalion of Artillery sent—Sattimungulum—Bangalore—Retreat from Seringapatam—Nundydroog—Savendroog—Attack on fortified camp at Seringapatam—Return to Bengal.