[39] As will be seen, on reference to the chapter on the Old Tenth Battalion, Captain Cairnes had also to give up to the pontoon train his second supply of horses in the end of this year.
[40] It would appear from Sir A. Frazer’s letters that Webber Smith’s troop was for a time attached to the Hussars, but ultimately to the 7th Division, in lieu of Captain Gardiner’s troop, which joined the Hussar Brigade.
[41] Passages de la Calçada.
[42] Jones’s ‘Peninsular Sieges’ would appear to err here:—and to show one gun less than the real number in No. 4 Battery.
[43] “The number of rounds expended during the second operation was 43,112. The strength of the Artillery (including 187 Portuguese) was 681. The casualties amounted to 7 killed and 31 wounded.”—Jones’s ‘Peninsular Sieges.’
[44] In the end of January 1814, after giving over the horses to the pontoons, 460 were deficient for the Artillery, and 200 others were sick or worn out. To meet this deficiency, 500 had been promised, and were to leave England in February.
[45] Sir A. Dickson, being only regimentally a 1st Captain, had been appointed to the command of G Troop, on Sir A. Frazer’s promotion; and in his absence in America, Captain Mercer held the command. At Waterloo, Sir A. Dickson was otherwise employed.
Communicated by Sir D. E. Wood, K.C.B., &c. &c.
In recent times, the most remarkable march made by Artillery was on one occasion during the Indian Mutiny, when a battery of R.H.A. marched 78 miles in 24 hours, and continued marching, elephants carrying the forage.