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(Ferdinand’s nephew). We have sworn testimony 1 2 as to Captains 
Phillips, Macbean, and Williams having commanded 6 and 12-pr. 
brigades under the Hereditary Prince (i.e., 1758) ; an incident of the 
overturning of some gans and ammunition wagons in the action on the 
Fulde in mid-October; the expression in Royal Warrant, 16th Novem¬ 
ber, .1759 (p. 173) “ Campaign in 1758 by Our Forces in the Allied 
Army; ” the successful defence of Munster, on 26th October, against 
the French by a portion of the British and Hanoverians before return 
of Ferdinand, on 28th, who had hurried back to their relief; 3 also, 
among the honours bestowed, on 1st January, 1759, upon the staff for 
the campaign of 1758, Captain Pattison, R.A. was given a brevet, and 
Captain Joseph Brome, R.A. the Master-Gunner ship of England (with 
£50 per annum for life, and official residence in St. James’s Park). 3 
At end of November, owing to severity of the season, the allied army 
returned to winter quarters in Munster, while the enemy wintered in 
the neighbourhood of Fulda —each harassing the other whenever op¬ 
portunity offered—and the allies received, from England and Hanover, 
reinforcements for the campaign of 1759, to complete the allied army 
to about 70,000 men, of whom 12,000 were British. 4 At this time the 
Royal Artillery became augmented at home by a 3rd battalion of 10 
companies. 
Battle of Bergen. 
The year 1759 opened with the French increased to 150,000; and 
this overwhelming preponderance brought out all the splendid qualities 
of the Great Frederick’s pupil and lieutenant, and of the endurance, 
mobility, and discipline of the allied army during the brilliant strategic 
manoeuvres of Ferdinand—“ through roads deemed inaccessible, and 
never before traversed by an army ”—which culminated at Minden on 
1st August. 
In January the enemy had, by stratagem, seized Frankfort-upon-the- 
Maine —which secured to them the course of the Maine and Upper 
Rhine—and, in March, Ferdinand set out to dislodge them, if possible, 
leaving garrisons (of Hanoverians and Hessians) to protect Hanover 
aud Munster; and with 30,000 (including the British) fought the battle 
of Bergen, on 13th April—the first division of the British, under Lord 
Sackville, being with Ferdinand; and the second, under Lord Granby, 
with the Hereditary Prince now rejoined. The battle began at 10 a.m. 
and ended at night. The French General, Due de Broglie, kept the 
village of Bergen on his right, put therein eight Austrian battalions, and 
in the rear of it placed several French brigades on the hill. His centre 
and left were so secured that the Allies must necessarily attack the 
village before they could come at his line. Three times did the infantry 
attack the village in as many hours, capturing three batteries; yet in 
1 “ Court-Martial” (1760) on Lord Sackville, p. 83. 
2 “ Campaigns of Prince Ferdinand,” pp. 66-8. The French lost 2300 in killed and wounded. 
London Gazette, No. 99,157, of 1759. 
3 London Gazette ,” 1759. “ Cleaveland MSS.” (unpublished portion, in E.A. Institution), 
item 1st January, 1759. 
4 Campaigns,” p. 73. 
