Category:Bengal Artillery

Chronology

• 1749 first company raised
• 1756 company perished in the Black Hole of Calcutta
• 1765 re-formed with four companies
• 1770 fifth company raised and the five companies formed into a battalion of total complement 548 Europeans plus 2912 Lascars employed hauling the guns
• 1778 re-formed into one European Regiment (7 field and 1 mounted or garrison company) and three Native battalions (8 companies each)
• 1779 re-formed into 2 European battalions of 5 companies with 6 companies of Lascars to each company
• 1787 Artillery constituted as one of the brigades of the Army
• 1801 draught horses used for the first time instead of bullocks for field artillery; formation of the Horse Artillery

External Links

Memoirs of the Bengal Artillery 1852 Google Books

"The Bengal Artillery", article in the Calcutta Review Volume 9, January-June 1848.