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the present system of officering the Royal Artillery; and established 
the artillery officer upon an equality with officers of the Army. 
(e.) It gave mobility and permanence to modern field artillery, and 
“ brigaded” field battery guns; abolished the l^-pr. field gun (of 
Marlborough) ; introduced the 3-pr.—6-pr. field train (1740) and 3-pr. 
gallopers/ the short-lived but ever memorable 4-pr. bronze field 
equipment of 1744, which again gave place to the 6-pr.horsed “ brigade” 
of 1745, and again to the I2-pr. medium and heavy field batteries of 
1758—permanently horsed, with limbers and wagons complete—which 
first trotted into action at Minden (the Waterloo of the 18th Century). 1 2 
(f.) In it was also born the Royal Horse Artillery of Frederick 
the Great (1759), which England is credited with having copied some 
few years afterwards. 
(g.) Between 1740—1759 the five complete companies of 40 officers 
610 men constituting the corps of Royal Artillery had developed into the 
three battalions of 31 companies of 229 officers, 38 cadets, 2962 men. 3 
According to the fashionable orthodoxy of military Carlylean hero- 
worshippers, we should make the humiliating confession that all this 
series of developments in arms was the result, not of British initiative, 
but of our simian dexterity in imitating foreign masters, and that we 
were, in all these points, as dependent then as now upon German 
inspiration, in particular from Frederick the Great. There was a 
period (1582) when English literature likewise derived all its inspiration 
from continental sources, which drew, then, from the patriotic bosom 
of Richard Mulcaster, the prophetic challenge “Why raise not the 
English wits, if they will bend their wills either, to be in time as well 
sought to by foreign students for increase of their knowledge as our 
country is sought to at this time by foreign merchants for increase oi 
their wealth?” 4 We who have lived to verify the prediction of the 
“ genius who awakened the nation,” ought to look forward to the day 
when English genius will also assert its pre-eminence in creative 
military arts and sciences. But may we nob at once throw down the 
glove, and challenge the Germanophiles to disprove the assertion that, 
with exception, perhaps, of the creation of the technical term “ Royal 
Horse Artillery,” Germany followed in the wake of England in adoption 
of all other of the foregoing developments ? 
Depressing, however, is it to the searcher among original official data 
throughout this epoch to discover how imperfect, or absolutely untrue, 
are many of the received accounts of this period hitherto published 
and founded upon secondhand sources, traditions, and anecdotes— 
1 In “Proceedings,” E.A.L, Yol. VII., No. 3, p. 137, the dates of introduction of galloper 
guns are assigned to “ some years after 1726, and in 1747 ;” but Lieut. Thos. James’s “ Book of 
Artillery” schedules galloping guns and carriages (6-pr., 3-pi\, 1^-pr.), and howitzers, under 
Class K, “ of my own projection, as approved by the Ifonblc. Board of Ordnance on 5th June, 
1725.” This remarkable compilation, on vellum, was begun in March, 1722 ; the original work 
is among the “ Dickson Papers,” now in possession of General Sir Collingwood Dickson, V.C., 
G.C.B. 
2 Special authorities hereafter in loco. 
8 Vide BA.. Muster Polls, 1740, and Eecord Books of Battalions. 
4 “Amenities of English Literature ” (Disraeli) , Vol. II., p. 20, 
