ARTILLERY SERVICE UNDER “JOHN COMPANY .” 
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only suitable when the distance to be traversed was very small, -tum¬ 
brils were introduced; large and unwieldy affairs requiring many 
bullocks to draw them. 
In 1793 , they were condemned as being too high, too heavy and 
liable to overturn. Also owing to the absence of partitions the am¬ 
munition in them was liable to get shaken and broken when moving 
over rough ground. This is not to be wondered at, for at this time 
serge had not been introduced, and the cartridges were made of paper. 
The carriage which superseded the old tumbril was subdivided for the 
reception of ammunition, and capable of holding ninety rounds of 12- 
pounder ammunition or 150 rounds of 6-pounder. The box was easily 
removable and fitted with a seat in front for the driver and his bundle. 
Various other forms of ammunition waggons were tried from time 
to time, and in 1823 an ammunition waggon very similar to the modern 
pattern was introduced. This carriage was provided with a limber 
exactly similar to that of the gun, and the ammunition was divided 
into six boxes two on the limber and four on the body of the carriage. 
It may be convenient at this point to describe the different modes 
of draft adopted at various periods in the Foot Artillery. When the 
Company was first formed (as has been already stated), the guns were 
dragged by Lascars, twenty-eight Lascars and two Serangs being the 
usual proportion for each gun (12-pr.). 
In 1779 , the necessity of a train of draught bullocks for the Artil¬ 
lery, was pressed on the Government by Sir Eyre Coote, and 4,000 
were directed to be kept at certain stations for this purpose; they 
were to be from four to six years old, and 50 inches high. The num¬ 
ber allowed for each carriage was as follows :— 
24 -pounder gun .. 
8-inch. Howitzer 
...7 
pairs. 
18 „ 
3 3 
... 9 „ 
^2 33 33 
...5 
33 
12 „ 
33 
... 6 „ 
ai 
■* 2 33 33 
...3 
33 
6 „ 
33 
... 3 „ 
Wagon . 
...7 
33 
3 „ 
33 
... 2 „ 
Tumbril. 
33 
Up to 1818 , bullocks were the only draught animals used in the 
Foot Artillery, they were attached to the carriages by yokes and 
traces made of raw hide, these latter during Lord Cornwallis's cam¬ 
paigns being superseded by draught chains. 
In 1818 , a 12 -pounder battery was horsed with a limited number of 
inferior animals, and so successful did the experiment prove, in spite 
of the indifferent material, that it was decided that all batteries should 
be horsed. On a change of government, however, in 1828 the horses 
were ordered to be sold and their places taken by bullocks again. 
In 1841 , orders were received from the Court of Directors, to replace 
the bullocks by camels and elephants. As the great bulk of the latter 
made them an easy target for an enemy, it was decided that they 
were never to be exposed to fire, and a certain number of spare limbers 
with teams of bullocks were provided to take the guns into action. 
1770 The uniform of the Regiment at this time, consisted of a 
blue coat faced with scarlet, and cut away in the fashion of 
the time, white cloth waistcoat and breeches with buckles at the knees, 
