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ramrod. The Royal Artillery consisted of, on the right, the permanent 
field train, armed at this time with seven 4-prs., commanded by Brevet- 
Major Borgard Michelsen and Captain-Lieutenant John Godwin 1 ; and 
the sixteen 4-pr. battalion guns, from Woolwich, of Captain Mace's 
composite company 2 with the eight battalions : the whole under com¬ 
mand of Brevet-Colonel William Belford, with Lieutenant and Adjutant 
Joseph Brome , and Lieutenant and Quartermaster Charles Stanover as 
his Staff Officers. 3 These are the guns which at Culloden “were so 
exceedingly well plied that they made dreadful lanes through the clan 
regiments" (“ Annals of War," Cust, p. 101) ; “served with so much 
skill and promptitude as to contribute not a little to the triumph of that 
memorable day" (“Military Antiquities," Grose, 1783 ed., Vol. II., 
p. 212); “the well served guns of the English, which overpowered 
the impetuous bravery of the highlanders" (Chambers's “Encyclo¬ 
pedia," article “Culloden"), “who were received upon the point 
of the bayonet, galled by an unexpected fire of musketry, and blown 
into the air by the artillery" (“Modern Europe," Russell, Yol. II., 
p. 42°). 
From the instances in R.A. pay lists of gun detachments “ blown up 
on the march to Culloden," it would appear that at Culloden the artil¬ 
lery came into action with fixed ammunition—a practice common in 
Flanders and Germany during the Seven Years' war, when the rapidity 
of fire with field pieces exceeded that in the Crimea 4 ; and, according to 
Lieutenant James's “Book of Artillery," 25th March, 1722, round shot 
and grape were employed 5 —as case shot cannot be traced in 1745, nor 
before the rise of the Tovey family R.A. 
The rebels mustered about 8000, according to the account rendered 
by Monsieur Patullo, the Pretender's muster-master; and although 
these, with only JJ-prs. and o.p. snaphance or dagger muskets, scythes, 
&c., were opposed to like numbers of the finest troops in Europe, chiefly 
veterans from Dettingen and Fontenoy, Prestonpans and Falkirk 
might have been repeated at Culloden but for our superiority in artil¬ 
lery and a skilfully executed flank attack by Colonel Belford, R. A. and his 
Adjutant (Lieutenant Joseph Brome), who detached four guns from the 
right, broke down a walled enclosure, and getting upon the rear of the 
1 i.e., the Captain Cunningham’s company of Prestonpans and Falkirk, whose second in com 
mand was Captain-Lieutenant John Godwin. This company is at present serving in Bermuda, 
under designation of No. 1 Company Western Division It. A., commanded by Major Arthur Tracey # 
2 This company was broken up in December 1748. 
Sir Ed. Cust, in “ Annals of War,” p. 91, accounts specifically for only the 4-pr. equipment (then 
in possession of the rebels) of the permanent field train (Cunningham’s, i.e., Michelsen’s, com¬ 
pany) of 1745, and not that of 1746 (p. 101). 
3 It.A. paylists, 1746. 
4 “ Proceedings,” R.A. Institution, Vol. XX., No. 2, p. 123, and foot note. 
5 Lieutenant James, R.A,, was at Culloden. His widow died while Matron of the Royal Mili¬ 
tary Academy. His remarkable work, on vellum, is in possession of General Sir Collingwood 
Dickson, V.C., G.C.B. 
Since penning the grape shot hypothesis, I find that this is specifically confirmed by the 
Chevalier de Johnstone on p. 190 of his ,£ Memoirs.” 
The “ History of the Royal Artillery,” Vol. I., p. 129, is incorrect in stating that we had 3-prs. 
and 6-prs. in the field in Scotland. The author transcribed the statement from p. 304 of the 1833 
edition of the “Waverly Anecdotes,” in which Sir Walter Scott also asserts that we had 30 
field pieces ! 
