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HORSE AETILLERY GUNS AT WATERLOO. 
P.$.—Since writing the above I have referred to Colonel J. E. 
Michell’s “ Records of the Horse Brigade/* in which the following pas¬ 
sage occurs:— 
- “ C W and ‘Q’ Troops, who were attached to cavalry covering the 
retreat from Quartre Bras, were seriously engaged. The former had 
been hard pressed by the enemy’s cavalry/* and Sir Robert Gardiner 
wrote: “ fortunately we had not received the 9-prs., or we should have 
been cut to pieces.** 
f G * Troop was Sir Alexander Hickson’s, commanded by Captain 
Mercer; f A * and f D/ Sir Hew Eoss’s with nines, and Major Bean’s 
with sixes. f E* and f E,* Sir Eobert Gardiner and Lieut.-Col. Webber 
Smith with sixes. f G* and ‘H/ Captain Mercer and Major Norman 
Eamsay with nines attached to the 1st Cavalry Division; Major Bull, 
5J-inch howitzers; Captain Whinyates (2nd Eocket Troop) with 6-inch 
howitzers. 
REPLY 
BY 
MAJOR R. H. MURDOCH, R.A., 
Assistant-Superintendent of Records. 
By the courtesy of the Committee E.A. Institution I have been 
permitted to peruse, prior to their being sent to press, the interesting 
and valuable communications from two of the most eminent authorities 
upon Peninsular and Waterloo history; and am thankful for the oppor¬ 
tunity of contributing a few lines of explanation, as well as for the 
lively interest evoked. 
The inquiry referred to w r as instituted at the close of last year, and 
the Report embodied the results of searching Board of Ordnance records 
at the time available, in Chancery Lane and in the Artillery Record 
Office at Woolwich. Some additional data have since become available 
from Ordnance records received from London, &c., sufficient to set at 
rest the vexed question of E.H.A. guns engaged at Waterloo; and 
there is some prospect that in the Peninsular family papers of a dis¬ 
tinguished General Officer solution may be found of the remaining 
problems : “ What is the history of the 6-pr. Royal trophy guns; when 
and why were they selected for Windsor ?” 
The Report, on this point, may be summarised as follows:— 
(a.) The sixteen 6-prs. may have been of Peninsular celebrity, but could not 
(all) have been engaged at Waterloo. 
(A) Because no R.A. field guns under 9-prs. weiA engaged at Waterloo, 
except the 6-prs. of one troop , which were also employed, at the 
close of the battle, in harassing the retreat of the Trench. 
(c.) That troop was Captain Joseph Jrome’s. 
General Gardiner and Colonel Whinyates concur that the troop 
exceptionally distinguished was commanded by Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel 
Sir Robert Gardiner: and in this they are correct. The writer’s 
statement that the troop in question was commanded by Capt. Brome 1 
was, he regrets to say, erroneous; and he attributes the error to his 
1 Placed in position at Hal, by the Duke, to oppose advance of the French towards Brussels. 
(“ History of the Royal Artillery,” Vol. II., p. 433). 
