The present designations of five of the companies known to have been with the Duke of York’s force are—
| B Battery, 1st Brigade. | (No. 4 Company, 4th Battalion, which was also present, has since been reduced.) |
| No. 4 Battery, 5th Brigade. | |
| No. 4 Battery, 7th Brigade. | |
| B Battery, 9th Brigade. |
The 6th Company, which was with the Army, cannot be traced with accuracy, but it was probably No. 7 Battery, 2nd Brigade. There were two bomb-vessels, the ‘Terror’ and ‘Vesuvius,’ which did good service, and on board of which were Lieutenants Suckling and Ramsay, 2 non-commissioned officers, 18 gunners, and 2 artificers, of the Royal Artillery.
MS. Returns to B. O.
The total strength of the Regiment at this time was 4857 of all ranks; and its distribution at the end of 1794 was as follows:—
| Home Stations | 6 | Troops of Horse Artillery. |
| Home Stations | 18 | Companies. |
| Colonial Stations | 22 | Companies. |
| Holland | 6 | Companies. |
| Toulon and Corsica | 1 | Companies. |
| Total | 53 | Troops and Companies. |
Vol. i. p. 405.
It will be remembered that the first five companies of a new Battalion, the 5th Battalion, were raised in this year. In this estimate of the strength of the Regiment, the Invalid Kane’s List. Companies are not included. The companies on colonial service included 2 in the East Indies, 7 in Canada, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, 9 in the West Indies, and 4 at Gibraltar.
Returning to the war, it may be observed that it was at the blockade of Condé that the English troops first took the field, forming part of the Allied Army under the Prince de Cobourg. The French suffered reverses at Famars and Quiévrain; but the first occasion on which the Artillery received special mention was on the 8th May, 1793, at St. Amand, when the Brigade of Guards was engaged in support of the Prussians, and contributed greatly to the success of the day. The Battalion guns attached to the Guards on this occasion were of great service, succeeding in silencing the enemy’s artillery, and so breaking his infantry that the charge ultimately made by the Guards was doubly effective. The wording of the letter to the Master-General, in praise of the conduct of the Artillery on this occasion, seems to imply that the guns were brigaded, from the fact of Major Wright’s name being mentioned as in command:—