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THE B ROME-WALTON FAMILY. 
been “ fetched from Edinburgh to Montrose by Sergeant Bristo and 
four men by ferry.” 1 The command of the company was taken over, 
temporarily, by the Captain-Lieutenant, John Godwin, who re-equipped 
it (with its former 4-prs. and howitzers, re-captured at Carlisle in 
which were also many cavalry horses fully accoutred) and fought it at 
Culloden under Captain and Brevet-Major Borgard Michelsen. 1 2 3 
On arriving in the Thames from Flanders, in December 1745, the 
four companies Boyal Artillery proceeded to Woolwich to take over the 
new equipment (4-pr.), and while the sick and disabled officers and 
men, and the head-quarters of three of the companies, were left at 
Woolwich—among the former being Colonel T. Pattison, Capt. Charles 
Brome , &c.—the fourth company, Captain Mace’s, was quadrupled by 
sub-divisions from the others, and sent to the North with 16 field pieces 
as battalion guns, 3 which arrived by sea at Newcastle on 16th January, 
1746—too late for Falkirk—and marched to Aberdeen to effect junction 
with the Duke of Cumberland (who had arrived to supersede General 
Hawley), with whom they marched and countermarched until the battle 
of Culloden, near Inverness. 
Battle of Culloden. 
The battle of Culloden was fought on 27th April, 1746 (16th April 
O.S.)—the last battle fought on British soil. It is not possible for any 
one who is unversed in the contemporary original records to realise 
how accurate are the descriptions given in Russell’s “Modern Europe” 
(Yol. II., pp. 414 to 421), and in Hume (pp. 604-5), of the neurotic 
panic of England after the defeats of Prestonpans and Falkirk, re¬ 
lieved only by the impetuous courage of George II. and H.R.H. the 
Duke of Cumberland. Culloden was to decide whether the Dynasty 
should remain with the House of Hanover, or be wrested by the 
House of Stuart, and that decision was to be given, for a second time 
in domestic history, chiefly by the Royal Artillery. 4 “ No victory was 
ever more complete, nor any more important in its consequences ” 
(Russell, Yol. II., p. 421), except Minden and Waterloo. The Royal 
troops consisted of eight battalions of infantry (including the 1 /34th 
regiment, now quartered at Woolwich as the Border Regiment, who 
were on the right of the second line), and three regiments of cavalry, 
in all about 8000, armed with the n.p. bayonet musquet, with iron 
1 Voucher attached to pay list of Cunningham’s company for quarter ended June 1746. The 
same voucher contains the following melancholy item :—“ 80th June. To attendance, nursing, 
and damage done y e bedding by Sergeant Ed. Bristo, deceased, during the time he lay ill of his 
wounds (received at Culloden), £2 6s. Od.” 
2 The Colonel John Godwin, who commanded R.A. during latter part of the great siege of 
Gibraltar. His portrait is in front west room of R.A. Institution. Ancestor of Colonel C. E. S. 
Scott, R.A. 
It.A. Pay lists 1746. 
3 “ England’s Artillerymen,” p. 13. 
4 Charles II. was restored by Colonel Monck, then Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance, with 
his gunners and the coldstreams. Colonel Monck was created Earl of Albermarle ; but the office of 
Lieut.-General of the Ordnance has been allowed to lapse. The late General Sir Robert Gardiner, 
g-.c.b., in his appeals to have the Royal Artillery represented as a corps d’elite among the Guards 
of the Sovereign, omitted these two important historical considerations. The Chevalier de 
Johnstone states that the victory at Culloden was almost entirely owing to the English artillery. 
(“ Memoirs,” p. 112). ...... 
