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HORSE ARTILLERY GUNS AT WATERLOO. 
have been proved that only ten light 6-prs. were engaged at Water¬ 
loo.” With all due deference it is impossible to agree that such has 
been done, on the contrary, it would rather seem that beyond a question 
there were fifteen in action, and very strong evidence that there were 
twenty. Let us briefly review the evidence regarding Major Beam’s 
troop, on the one hand we have the testimony of the Assist.-Adjutant- 
General, Royal Artillery, that of the Historian of the Campaign—Capt. 
Siborne, who was indefatigable in his researches, and who had official 
assistance, and we have that of Colonel Michell in his Records of the 
Royal Horse Artillery.” On the other hand we have the return to the 
Deputy-Adjutant-General, Royal Artillery, of the 30th of May, 1815, 
with its prophetic foot note stating what happened on or about the 
10th of June at Ostend, and we have the recollections of Capt. Mercer. 
The preponderance of the former over the latter can hardly be dis¬ 
puted, and I have therefore no hesitation in adhering to my former 
statement that there were twenty light 6-prs. in action at the battle 
of Waterloo. 
