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mand of the Artillery at the siege and capture of Minjorca, Michael 
Richards became Commander-in-Chief of the British Artillery in Spain ; 
he too is a great artilleryman whose name is not in “ Kane’s List ” and 
it would be interesting to know what was the relationship between 
Michael, Jacob and James Richards who served through the periods 
of Plates I and II. 
In 1743 the date of Plate III the Artillery has become a definite 
Regiment; in that year the battle of Dettingen was fought on 13 th 
June; among others there present as a Captain was William Belford 
(No. 34 ); in April, 1743 Thomas Desaguliers (No. 51 ) became a Cap¬ 
tain-Lieutenant ; he may be regarded as the Father in science of the 
Regiment as he was the first Royal Artilleryman honoured by election 
to a fellowship of the Royal Society; Charles Brome (No. 70 ) who 
has mustered as a Matross in 1709 became a 1 st Lieutenant on the 
6 th April, 1743 when Joseph Brome (No. 87 ) was still a Fire-worker 
Albert Borgard was Colonel-Commandant of the Regiment with the 
army rank of Lieutenant-General; in this year Captain-Lieutenant 
Withers Borgard (No. 42 ) died in u landers while on the first Septem¬ 
ber Samuel Cleaveland (No. 83 ) was commissioned as a 2 nd Lieuten¬ 
ant and Forbes Macbean (No. 129 ) on the 3 rd August became a Cadet- 
Matross. 
Cleaveland is one to whom the Regiment owes a heavy debt as it was 
he who first compiled notes relating to the early history of British Art¬ 
illery and from these notes most of the information about Plates I and 
II is extracted. 
The dress of Plate IV 1760 may be considered to be that in which 
Royal Artillery officers had fought at Minden in 1759 ; here Griffith 
Williams (No 131 ) commanded four 14 prs. with great success; Will¬ 
iam Phillips (No. 153 ) was in command of all the British artillery 
which rendered so good an account of itself that Prince Ferdinand of 
Brunswick especially thanked and complimented in his general order to 
the army Colonel Phillips (No. 153 ), Captains Macbean (No. 129 ) 
Drummond (No. 162 ) and Foy (No. 192 ) and in addition sent to each 
of these officers a letter of thanks and present of money for their ser¬ 
vices at Minden. 
Among the young artillery officers present at this battle was Vaug¬ 
han Lloyd (No. 241 ) who, first commissioned as a 2 nd Lieutenant on 
4 th January, 1758 survived Waterloo and died in harness as a Colonel- 
Commandant and Commandant at Woolwich on 16 th June, 1817 ; 
there are several caricature portraits of him in the portfolios of the 
Royal Artillery Institution. 
In 1751 Albert Borgard the Father of the Regiment had died; his 
portrait in oils hangs in the R.A. Mess, Woolwich. In the period con¬ 
cluding with 1760 the year 1755 was one of peculiar interest to officers 
serving in the present regiment formed as it is by the amalgamation 
of the Royal and Royal Irish Artillery with the Corps of Bengal, Mad¬ 
ras and Bombay Artillery; for it was in 1755 that four companies of 
artillery under Royal Artillery officers were raised and embarked for 
service in India. These companies contained men who did good ser¬ 
vice in the East; notably, John Chalmers senior (No. 50 ), Richard 
