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army with so much confidence that in 1758, in America, even infantry 
detachments would not move (except in one disastrous instance) with¬ 
out the guns; but less than four guns per 1000 were on the field at 
Minden, while the enemy had about 5 per 1000. 1 2 
On 3rd and 5th August, 1758, the British quitted Emden, and by a 
series of forced marches effected junction on 14th, at Coesveldt, with 
Prince Ferdinand, who reviewed them and expressed his “ greatest 
satisfaction at their appearance.” 3 Their arrival was a source of great 
rejoicing to the Germans; and both men and horses were objects of 
immense admiration : the horses were all of a superior class, those of 
the cavalry regiments being entirely roans, greys, bays, or blacks; and 
2000 of the troops were highlanders. 3 In September the city of 
Munster was made allied head-quarters, where, unhappily, the Duke of 
Marlborough died of the plague, and was succeeded in chief command 
of the British by Lieut.-General Lord George Sackville (Lieut.-General 
of the Ordnance), M.P. for Dover, and also for Portarlington, in the 
English and Irish Parliaments. Sackville, at this time 42 years of age, 
was the spoilt child of fortune : at 24 he was given the lieut.-colonelcy 
of a regiment, and until 1743 had passed his time in Parliament; served 
in Flanders, 1744-5 (wounded at Fontenoy), and in the suppression of 
the Scottish rebellion; from 1751-6, a petty king in Ireland (and Grand 
Master of the Irish Freemasons) as Secretary for War in Ireland and first 
Secretary to his father, the Duke of Dorset, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland 
and intimate personal friend of George II. 4 Possessed of considerable 
ability, and having displayed much dash and military capacity as a 
cavalry leader in Flanders, Scotland, and against St. Malo, Sack¬ 
ville was of a haughty, domineering temperament, which could not 
submit to control. Sent on a mission, after Fontenoy, by the Duke of 
Cumberland to Marshal Saxe, he refused to be blindfolded ; 5 we have 
witnessed his impulsiveness after the expedition of St. Malo; 6 and he 
was too proud to submit to the command of the German Prince Fer¬ 
dinand, with whom, from the first moment of succeeding Marlborough* 
he quarrelled—when, but for the gallant and good-natured Marquis of 
Granby (Grand Master of English Freemasons), he would have refused 
to show any subordination to the Prince. 7 Captain Joseph Brome must 
have had a warm time, while for one and a half years on the staff of 
such an imperious chief. 
The historian of Royal Artillery will have to disperse the fog which 
envelops the operations in the campaign of 1758 by the British forces, 
of whom some were detached to act under the Hereditary Prince 
1 “ Guerre de Sejpt Ans ” (Decker), p. 261. 
2 “Campaigns of Prince Ferdinand, by a British Officer who Served Therein,” p. 60. This 
officer, Captain William Boy, of the 61st Begiment, subscribed his name to the maps illus¬ 
trative of his journal. This able work is marred by this infantry officer’s indifference to artillery 
details—a defect providentially remedied by the journal of Captain Samuel Cleaveland (1st), B.A., 
in B.A. Institution. 
3 “ Annals of War ” (Sir E. Cust), 1758, p. 261. 
4 “ Dictionary of National Biography” (a very valuable work), art. Germaine. 
5 “ Proceedings ” B.A. I., Vol. XX., No. 10, p. 544. 
6 See also “Annals of War” (Cust), 1758, p. 257. 
7 Cust (1758), p. 261. 
