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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://wellcomelibrary.blogspot.com/2010/08/hot-night-in-bengal.html Hot night in Bengal]. Circumstances leading to a court martial on the 1st of August 1840 of Gunner Shehan at Dinapore Wellcome Library Blog
====Historical books online====
====Historical books online====
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=NngIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''A narrative of the sufferings of James Bristow, ... during ten years captivity with Hyder Ally and Tippoo Saheb''] by James Bristow of the Bengal Artillery 1793 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=NngIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''A narrative of the sufferings of James Bristow, ... during ten years captivity with Hyder Ally and Tippoo Saheb''] by James Bristow of the Bengal Artillery 1793 Google Books

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For the volunteer force formed in 1925, see Bengal Artillery (AFI).

The Bengal Artillery, part of the Bengal Army, consisted of:

The Bengal Artillery were the first artillery in India to be tractor drawn.

FIBIS resources

"Looking for Gunner Hurley in India" by Malcolm Hurley Mills and Lawrie Butler

Part 1 FIBIS Journal Number 17 (Spring 2007) Part 2 FIBIS Journal Number 22 (Autumn 2009)

Refer FIBIS Journals for details of how to access these Journals.


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

All sepoy artillery units were abolished after the Indian Mutiny and the European battalions became part of the Royal Artillery. In 1862 the Bengal Artillery was absorbed into the Royal Artillery as the 16th, 19th, 24th and 25th Brigades.[1]

British Library

The British Library's catalogue includes

  • The History of the Royal and Indian Artillery in the Mutiny of 1857 by Julian RJ Jocelyn (1915). Available from the FIBIS Amazon Shop

Uniform

  • Uniform - Blue
  • Facings - Scarlet
  • Badge - Same as Royal Artillery

References

  1. The New Artillery Amalgamation, pages 606-607 (December 1861) from Colburn’s United Service Magazine, Volume 97, 1861 Part 3 Google Books

External links

  • Hot night in Bengal. Circumstances leading to a court martial on the 1st of August 1840 of Gunner Shehan at Dinapore Wellcome Library Blog

Historical books online