Category:Bengal Artillery

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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.

Pages in category "Bengal Artillery"

The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.