THE BROME-WALTON FAMILY. 
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Captains W. Phillips and Cleaveland, to which were added in March 
1759 Captain Macbean’s and detachments to complete the three com¬ 
panies to 400 men, in addition to six officers and 54 gunners with the 
I infantry battalion guns, and a like number for the gallopers with the 
cavalry regiments ; also, two officers and 20 non-commissioned officers 
; and artificers with the pontoons. 
The three companies were— 
Captain Wm. Phillips’, now No. 6 Company Western Div., R.A. 
,, Sam. Cleaveland’s, which was broken up in 1819. 
,, Porbes Macbean’s, now 2nd Field Battery, R.A. 1 2 
The armaments (all of bronze) consisted of— 3 
Battalion guns—12 light 6-prs., with 300 rounds per gun of fixed round 
shot, and 300 rounds of tin case shot with wood bottoms. 3 
Six of these were lost in the campaign of 1758, and were 
replaced in March 1759. 
Round shot. 
Tin case shot 
with 
Fixt shot, wood bottoms. 
Spare 
carr. 
Gallopers (for cavalry)- 
-14 3-prs., light, 3000 
300 
4 
( 
8 heavy 12-prs. 3000 
800 
320 
2 
Position brigades ... j 
8 „ 6-prs. 3000 
800 
480 
2 
8-in. howitzers — 
— — 
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On travelling carriages, with limbers complete. 
Field brigades... 
10 medium 12-prs. (including the flag gun). 
6 light 12-prs. 
6 ,, 6-prs. 
6 Royal howitzers. 
C 12-prs., 2000 f 700 empty shells. 
Tin tubes “ fixt” ... < 6-prs., 2200 For howitzers < 30 carcasses. 
f 3-prs., 6060 (_ 700 fixt fuzes. 
A device had been adopted, since the campaign of 1 747, with regard 
to tubes, for portable field magazines , which in some measure antici¬ 
pated the suggestive paper on this subject by Major R. Wynyard, R.A., 
in “ Proceedings” R.A.I. for November 1893, p. 545, namely, “A 
Proposal for the Supply of Ammunition in the Field.” The tubes 
were cut in exact lengths of 4 in,, packed in close fitting tin cases each 
holding 50 : these were carried in the limber boxes. For field maga¬ 
zines, cases were “ headed up” in empty powder barrels. Each case 
had a leather strap. Cleaveland MSS. 1747/8. 
Thus, excluding the “ position ” brigades, 54 field pieces of artillery 
were assigned to the British army of 10,400 men (12,000 in April 
1759)—a proportion due to the preponderating influence of artillery 
fire at Dettingen, Fontenoy, and Culloden, which had inspired the 
1 “Proceedings” R.A.I. (Court of Enquiry), Yol. XX., p. 267. 
2 Ordnance Royal Warrants, 30th June, 1st July, 11th September, 23rd November, 1758; 27th 
February, 1759. 
3 The French did not employ wooden bottoms until 1772. Letter from Sir Alex. Dickson to 
Lord Ditzroy Somerset , dated 11th Aug., 1820. The “ faddists ” of 1803 and of 1820 got com¬ 
mittees of field otficers to consider paper covers as substitutes for wood bottoms and to avoid 
strappings. The scathing criticisms of Major-General Yaughan Lloyd (of Mindcn), 3/10/1803, 
and of Colonel Sir Alex. Dickson (of Waterloo), 11/8/1820, are with tile Dickson MSS. 
