THE BROME-WALTQN FAMILY. 
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Thus, in addition to the Engineers, three complete Companies of Royal 
Artillery were employed in this expedition and were engaged in the 
battle of Dettingen, viz.:—• 
Captain Wm. Sumpter's Company (broken up in February, 1757). 
„ Jas. Deal's Company (now the 5th Field Battery, R.A.) 
,, Borgard Michelsen's Company (now 3 Company Western 
Division, R.A.) 
The fact would appear to be that Colonel Pattison would not accept the 
only available Train as constituted in 1741—detailed onp. 414 hereof— 
but planned its re-constitution—’leaving behind (to carry out his views) 
his Adjutant, Lieutenant Joseph Brome , who was ad interim attached to 
the personal staff of the Duke of Montagu, at Whitehall 1 * —for the 
modifications of the Train consisted in rejecting the lj-prs. 3 and adding 
ten heavy 6-prs. (brass) and four 8-in. howitzers, 3 with corresponding 
alterations in the “proportionsand the Train arrived at Ghent in 
January, 1743, where the Commissary of Horse (Wm. Hawtayne) had 
already “ hired contractor's horses " to draw the guns, wagons, &c. 
Thus, while the Royal English Artillery rejected the l^-pr. and adopted 
the 6-pr., “ the god whom the whole military world fell down and 
worshipped " 4 was bent on introducing the 1-pr. and ostracising the 
6-pr. 5 —errors which Frederick the Great, retracted in 1759. 
The Allies, under Field Marshal, the Earl of Stair (consisting of 
English, Hessians, Hanoverians, and Austrians—37,000, all told—of 
whom 26,000 fought at Dettingen), passed the Rhine on 14th May, 
1743, and on 23rd arrived at Frankfurt, where the veteran Earl of 
Stair allowed himself to be out-manoeuvred by de Noailles (with 
50,000, of whom 30,000 fought at Dettingen), and was compelled to 
retreat, in order to effect a junction with reinforcements of 12,000 
Hessians and Hanoverians, his magazines and supplies of provisions 
and forage being cut off, and the only route open to him being Aschaf- 
fenberg, with a bridge over the Maiue, where he fixed his head-quarters. 
Affairs were in this critical condition—the Allies on half rations, the 
horses starving for want of forage, the whole Army cooped up in a 
narrow valley which, running between Mount Spessart and the Maine, 
1 The R.A. regimental muster rolls and pay lists (July, 1742) show Lieutenant Joseph Brome 
as employed “ in London;” aud the first Flanders field roll returns him as ££ not yet come over.” 
In this latter roll Colonel Pattison is described as “ Lieut.-Colonel, Comptroller, and Commander- 
in-Chief” (Artillery). 
- These 1^-prs. are stated to have been on the field at Fontenoy in 1745 ( :£ History of the Royal 
Artillery,” Vol.'I., p. 127) ; but in the artillery details of Fontenoy, on p» 125, 1^-prs. do not 
appear. The statement is obviously an error. Colonel Pattison and his Adjutant (Joseph 
Brome) had had enough of 1^-prs. in Minorca; and there was no “ authority” in England lo 
thwart their rejection of this calibre. According to “ Cleaveland MSS.” (p. 235) the 1^-pr. disap¬ 
peared in 1745; but these MSS. of this period are mere interpo’ations, by the revising editor, to 
replace the gap caused by loss of the original folios—as will be proved hereafter—see admission in 
foot note (’) of p. 228'of the MSS. The lj-prs. were stored in Woolwich Warren, and such as 
were not melted down were, a few years afterwards, bored to 3-prs. by the brothers King, the 
Arsenal gunfounders. 
3 “ Cleaveland MSS.,” p. 235, “ History of the Royal Artillery,” Yol. I., p. 126 (the year 
should be 1742, not 1744 : they arrived on 1st January, 1743. 
4 “ Proceedings,” R.A. Institution, Yol. YIL, Ho. 3, p. 133. 
5 “ Proceedings,” R.A. Institution, Yol. YII., Ho. 7, pp. 460-1. 
