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LETTERS 
FROM 
GENERAL H. LYNEDOCH GARDINER, C.B., 
Colonel Commandant Royal Artillery. 
These letters, wliicli were read to tlie Annual G-eneral Meeting, are now published 
as the Committee think that they contain much of general interest to the Begi- 
ment regarding both the presents given by General Lynedoch Gardiner and the 
circumstances attending the first gift of an Army Command to an Artillery 
Officer. 
“ 109, Cromwell Road, S.W., 
15 April, 1893. 
My Dear Williams, 
I propose to offer my father’s sketches which you saw yester¬ 
day to the Royal Artillery Institution. 
He began sketching first when he was A.-D.-C. to General Fox 
(brother to Charles Fox the Cabinet Minister), in Sicily in 1806, and to 
Sir John Moore, in 1807. He came home with Sir John, but soon 
afterwards joined Sir Arthur Wellesley in the Peninsula, and was 
present at Roleia and Yimiera, and afterwards in Sir John Moore’s 
retreat to Coruna, and there is one sketch, separate from the others, 
taken on that retreat, in which he acted as Brigade-Major to the Artil¬ 
lery force. 
He returned with the Army, after the battle of Coruna, to England, 
and the same year went as Brigade-Major to the R.A. in the Walcheren 
Expedition, and there are several sketches in Holland. The next year 
he went out to the Peninsula again, and joined Lord Lynedoch at 
Cadiz, and was present, in command of a Field Battery (then called a 
f Brigade’), at Barossa. He afterwards joined Lord Wellington’s 
Army at the siege of Badajos, and from that time forward took part in 
most of the head-quarter actions, until he marched through Spain and 
France in command of a 1 Troop ’ of R.H.A., and embarked for Eng¬ 
land in 1814. There are several sketches before he joined the R.H.A., 
but I do not think any afterwards. It was attached to the Hussar 
Brigade in the advance on France, and afterwards at Waterloo, to 
which it covered the retreat of the left wing of the Army from Quatre 
Bras, and had a desperate gallop for it. It is possible, however, that 
he may have made some sketches even in the latter part of the Penin- 
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