History of the Royal Sappers and Miners, Volume 1 (of 2) / From the Formation of the Corps in March 1712 to the date when its designation was changed to that of Royal Engineers

by T. W. J. Connolly

[362]. ‘United Service Journal,’ i. 1840, p. 164.

[363]. Ibid., i. 1840, p. 338.

[364]. ‘United Service Journal,’ i. 1840, p. 153.

[365]. ‘United Service Journal,’ i. 1840, p. 156. Brabant was discharged in April, 1841, on a pension of 6d. a-day. He was quite lame, but shortly after obtained the situation of turnkey to Maidstone gaol.

[366]. ‘United Service Journal,’ i. 1840, p. 320.

[367]. Ibid., p. 323, 324.

[368]. A man of varied acquirements, a good surveyor, and an expert draughtsman and clerk, and assisted in executing the wood engravings in Colonel Pasley’s ‘Practical Operations of a Siege,’ for which his name is recorded at page 76 of the first edition of that work. Disposed to habits of irregularity, he never received promotion, and was pensioned at 1s. a-day in January, 1850.

[369]. ‘United Service Journal,’ i. 1840, p. 333.

[370]. Now sergeant-major at the royal engineer establishment, Chatham.

[371]. ‘United Service Journal,’ 1840, p. 337. A minute and faithful record of the operations will be found in the ‘United Service Journal,’ i. 1840, pp. 72-83, 149-164, 319-338.