History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, Vol. 1
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Duncan Francis. History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, Vol. 1
PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION
PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION
INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER
CHAPTER I. The Masters-General of the Ordnance and theirHonourable Board
CHAPTER II. The Infancy of Artillery in England
CHAPTER III. The Restoration, and Revolution of 1688
CHAPTER IV. Landmarks
CHAPTER V. Marlborough's Trains
CHAPTER VI. Annapolis
CHAPTER VII. The Birth of the Regiment
CHAPTER VIII. Albert Borgard
CHAPTER IX. Twenty Years. 1722-1741
CHAPTER X. Foundation of the Royal Military Academy
CHAPTER XI. A Sterner School
CHAPTER XII. Woolwich in the Olden Time
CHAPTER XIII. To 1755
CHAPTER XIV. The Royal Irish Artillery
CHAPTER XV. First Battalion. – The History and Present Designation of the Companies
CHAPTER XVI. The Second Battalion. – The History and PresentDesignation of the Companies
CHAPTER XVII. During the Seven Years' War
CHAPTER XVIII. The Siege of Louisbourg
CHAPTER XIX. Minden, – and after Minden
CHAPTER XX. The Third Battalion. – The History and Present Designationof the Companies
CHAPTER XXI. The Siege of Belleisle
CHAPTER XXII. Peace
CHAPTER XXIII. The Fourth Battalion. – The History and Present Designation of the Companies
CHAPTER XXIV. The Journal of a Few Years
CHAPTER XXV. The Great Siege of Gibraltar
CHAPTER XXVI. PORT MAHON
CHAPTER XXVII. The American War of Independence
CHAPTER XXVIII. The Gunner who Governed New York
CHAPTER XXIX. Conclusion of the War
CHAPTER XXX. History, Succession of Captains, and Present Designationof the Troops and Companies belonging to the RoyalHorse Artillery, the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Battalions
APPENDICES
APPENDIX No. 1. Chap. IV. – Page 60
APPENDIX No. 2. Chap. IV. – Page 61
APPENDIX No. 3. Chap. VII. – Page 81
APPENDIX No. 4
APPENDIX No. 5. Chap. XXIII. – Page 251
APPENDIX No. 6. Chap. XXIV. – Page 265
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A further reorganization of the Royal Artillery, involving alterations in the nomenclature of Batteries, having taken place since the publication of the Second Edition, the Author has deemed it desirable to issue a Third, with tables added to Appendix C, in the Second Volume, which will enable the reader to keep up the continuity.
These frequent changes are embarrassing to the student of history, but in the present instance the change has been distinctly advantageous in an administrative point of view.
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The next one about whom there is any certainty would appear to be the one who heads 'Kane's List' —
Sir Thomas Seymour, who was appointed about 1537. Other lists show Sir Christopher Morris as Master at this time; but there seems little doubt that he was merely Lieutenant of the Ordnance, although a distinguished soldier, and frequently in command of the Artillery on service.
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