THE BROME-WALTON FAMILY. 
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must attain its climax in the next European struggle. Where we leave 
off at Minden, at 10 o’clock at night, on the ever memorable 1st August, 
1759,, Major May, It.A. has taken up his parable of the achievements 
of modern artillery 1 at which hour the English artillery had earned the 
admiration of our chivalrous opponents for its “ mobility, elegance, 
and, above all, for the excellence of its materiel.” 2 “La conduite de 
Vartillerie fut entierement digne d’eloges. Cette arme par ait aussi ne 
pas avoir manque de chefs superieurs dans les momens decisifs.” (Decker, 
272). 
How largely the Brom'es have bulked in these developments of the 
Royal Artillery, by land and sea, the readers who have so patiently 
followed us, hitherto, will now be in a position to determine. Quitting, 
therefore, the impersonal for the personal, let us close this chapter by 
following the further fortunes of Captain Joseph Brome to the con¬ 
clusion of the Seven Years War.” 
When Lord George Sackville, the Commander-in-Chief, obtained 
leave, in September, from the King to proceed to England, to vindicate 
his conduct before a general court-martial, Captain Joseph Brome , his 
artillery A.-D.-C., resigned staff employment, in order to continue upon 
active service with the allied army; and was given command of Cleave- 
land’s brigade, which was at this time without a (first) Captain; and 
Brome fought this brigade, under the Marquis of Granby (now Com¬ 
mander-in-Chief and Lieut.-General of the Ordnance, vice Sackville), 
throughout the remainder of the arduous campaign of 1759. 
Ferdinand being now joined by the Hereditary Prince, the operations 
of the army—until going into winter quarters (huts), in January 1760, 
at Osnaburg, 3 in one of the severest of German winters, and in a 
country devastated by the retreating enemy—'Consisted in forced 
marches, and almost daily combats, in which the cavalry more than 
atoned for want of action at Minden. Minden had imbued the British 
troops with a spirit of reckless daring; the light cavalry and infantry 
(a species of troops not then possessed by the French) gave the enemy 
no rest, day nor night ; and although, from 1760 until 1763, the British 
were augmented by 12 additional battalions, 5 regiments of cavalry, 
and one-and-a-half companies (brigades) of Royal Artillery, 4 we rarely 
read, in the journal of the next three campaigns, an account of a fight 
or of a siege, without finding BrudenePs, Kingsley’s, Napier’s, or 
Stuart’s regiments pre-eminent among the infantry, or the Minden 
gunners eclipsing their former heroism ; or of some daring achieve¬ 
ments by the dashing cavalry, without discovering that it was ever 
Bland’s or Howard’s, or other of Sackville’s or Granby’s Minden 
troopers who carried off the lion’s share of victory. 
1 Bj Major E. S. May, R.A., “Proceedings” R.A.I., Vol. XIX., No. 9, p. 463. 
2 Ibid. 
3 “ Campaigns of Prince Ferdinand,” p. 139. 
4 Capt. James Stephens’s brigade (company), and a half brigade, under Capt.-Lieufc. Duncan 
Drummond, arrived in Germany in April, 1760, and served through remaining campaigns, including 
sieges of Warbourg and Fritzler. The former now survives as No. 1 Mountain Battery, R.A., at 
TJmballa, E.I., commanded by Major H. C. C. D. Simpson. The half brigade developed into an 
“independent company,” became No. 3 company, 3rd battalion in 1825, and is now No. 6 company, 
Western Division, R.A., at Barrackpore, commanded by Major W. B. Hoggan, R_ A. 
