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1742), in view to making him Adjutant of the Field Service Train 
about to be prepared for the Austrian Netherlands under Colonel 
Pattison’s immediate command—a position which the Duke of Mon¬ 
tagu conferred upon Lieutenant Joseph Brome, under Royal Warrant 
of 31st May, 1742. 1 2 
Here, again, both artillery and general histories fail us. With what 
armament did the Royal Artillery support the Expedition of 1742 to 
the Austrian Netherlands, 3 and fight the battle of Dettingen ? The 
British Artillery in the battle of Dettingen are not mentioned in 
Russel’s “ Modern Europe ” (Yol. II., pp. 394-6), Hume’s “ England” 
(pp. 599-60), Cast’s “ Annals of War,” 1743 (pp. 32-34), nor in 
Browne’s “ England’s Artillerymen” (p. 11) ; and in the “ History 
of the Royal Artillery ” (Yol. I., p. 125) the account is merely that 
“the Artillery share in this engagement was small; the chief points 
being the . . . obstinate bravery of the Infantry, and that the 
guns present with the R.A. in the battle were 3-prs. twenty-four in 
number ” : while by “ Cleaveland’s MSS.” (p. 228) “ twenty-four 3-prs. 
were embarked for Flanders on 18th June, 1742, arriving at Ghent on 
30th idem .” 
Dettingen is celebrated in history as the last British battle com¬ 
manded in person by the King (Geo. II.) ; to this day the British 
victory is commemorated by the lovers of Church music in the Det¬ 
tingen Te Deuni of Handel; 3 and one of the subjects of our 
Memoir, Lieutenant Joseph JBrome, was Adjutant to the Royal Artil¬ 
lery in the field commanded by Colonel Thomas Pattison 4 : regimental 
amour propre, therefore, constrains us to call in the aid of original 
official records to do justice to the prominent services rendered by the 
Royal Artillery-—apart from the higher consideration that iu this 
battle we shall find the last unique specimen of ancient tactics, as well 
as the new method of employing field artillery, independent of battalion 
guns, a system which developed the brigading of field artillery in 1747 
by the British, 5 and culminated in the glorious achievement of artillery 
at Minden in 1759. 
By Royal Warrant, of 4tli May, 1742, His Majesty approved of 
30 pieces of brass ordnance, all 3-prs ., viz., two for each of the 15 bat- 
1 Adjutant, derived from aide major, an office created in the English army only in 1684 (for 
functions see Grose’s “ Military Antiquities” (Yol. I., p. 265). The successions, since 1688, of 
R.A. Adjutants with Field Service Trains can, be culled from “ Cleaveland MSS.” Among the 
especially distinguished were : — (1694), Michael Richards and Wm. Bousfield ; (1696), Albrecht 
Borgard ; (1739), Win. Bel for d; (1742), Joseph Brome ; (1747), Forbes Macbean. The Adjutant, 
since 1688, has always been one of the “mounted” officers (Grose, Yol. I., p. 265), which is 
constantly ignored by our regimental historians. 
2 16,000 British. 
6000 Hessians 7 -r -n u- u __ 
6000 Hanoverians ) ■ ^ 
3 “ Annals,” 1743 (Oust), p. 35. Russel’s “Modern Europe,” Yol. II., p. 394. “God be 
praised, we have gained a great victory,” is the opening para, of the despatches, by King Geo. II. 
from Dettingen.— London Gazette, No. 8236, of 1743. 
4 “ History of the Royal Artillery,” Yol. I., p. 124. 
5 The Germans adopted the “ brigade ” system only in 1760.— Vide Colonel Brackenbury’s 
“Frederick the Great” (p. 236). In the R.A. Institution Captain Abdy, the Secretary, was 
good enough to show r me an official Return (MSS.), signed by Captain Forbes Macbean, Adjutant 
14.A., of tho Royal Artillery guns as “brigaded,” dated September, 1747, 
