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THE BROME-WALTON FAMILY. 
rebels (< literally swept away, at once, whole ranks.” 1 Neither the 
Chevalier de Johnstone, who at Culloden was attached as Captain to 
the rebel regiment of artillery, nor any other reliable historian, gives 
the number or calibre of the French field pieces with the Scotch; but 
voucher attached to R.A. pay lists, dated 2nd May, 1746, explains that 
at Newcastle, alone, there were then on charge “ 8 one-and-a-half guns, 
16 basket carriages, 8 other travelling wagons, 29 tumbrils, 4 ammuni¬ 
tion carts, 1 spare carriage with 1 spare wheel and axletree, 21 spare 
wheels and axletrees, and 800 prisoners, taken at the late action 
(Culloden) and surrendered themselves since” : while the Ordnance 
Warrants book (1711—1749) describes the musquets captured from the 
rebels as a useless, on account of not being properly fitted with 
bayonets” (i.e., the o.p. snaphance or dagger musquets 2 ). The 3rd 
regiment (“ The Buffs ”) took post at Culloden on the right of Mor- 
daunffs division; and p. 179 of the History of this regiment states 
that “eighteen pieces of cannon, with all their utensils,” were captured 
from the rebels. 
Nearly 3000 fell on both sides in this sanguinary battle—equally 
distributed among the contending armies—the Royal Artillery losing 
in officers, non-commissioned officers and men, 10 killed, 23 wounded, 
6 missing 3 ; and commissions as officers were profusely bestowed by 
the King upon the non-commissioned officers of Royal Artillery for 
distinguished conduct in the field during the rebellion. 
After the complete subjugation of Scotland, Perth became the army 
head-quarters of the northern division of the permanent Scottish estab¬ 
lishment, including the original field train of artillery—the R.A. being 
left under command of Major James Pattison; and the Hessian infantry 
and cavalry (no Hessian artillery)—who had remained in garrison in 
Edinburgh, and did no fighting since arrival from Flanders—were at 
once re-embarked at Leith to rejoin the Allied army in the Nether¬ 
lands; but H.R.H. the Duke of Cumberland withdrew to England, in 
May 1746, all the ex-Flanders Royal troops, including artillery—in 
view to resumption, in the spring, of active operations with the Allied 
army in the Netherlands—-and encamped them temporarily at Windsor. 
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Expedition Against Port L'Orient. 
In the interval between suppression of the Scottish rebellion and 
resumption of the Austrian Succession war, active employment opened 
to Captain-Lieutenant Charles Brome, of Captain Mace's company, as 
“ Captain Extraordinary,” under Captain Chalmers, R.A., in the Ex¬ 
pedition against Port L'Orient, Brittany, under Lieut.-General St. 
1 Chevalier de Johnstone. “ Memoirs,” p. 190. The seythemen attacked cavalry, by chopping 
the horse’s nose, which made the poor brute instantly wheel about, exposing the rider to be merci¬ 
lessly cut down. 
2 The siege train supplied to the Pretender’s army, by France, consisted of two 18-prs., two 
12-prs., two 6-prs. (heavy), but no mortars : these were employed at the .siege of Stirling Castle. 
“ Memoirs of the Rebellion,” by Chevalier de Johnston®, pp. 119, 113. The Chevalier adds that 
field artillery, “ instead of being useful (to the Scotch), was, on the contrary, a great embarrassment, 
by continually retarding our marches.” 
3 London Magazine? 1746, p. 234. 
