354 KANE’S LIST AND MACDONALD’S HISTORY OF DRESS. 
Maitland (No. 74) who in February, 1759 sailed from Bombay in com¬ 
mand of the land forces of the expedition which captured Surat and 
thus was probably the first Royal Artillery officer who commanded a 
mixed force in the field; James Wood (No. 209) saw much service in 
Chalmers’s company, both in Europe and in the East and returned 
home to become Chief Fire-Master in 1786. Several of these Royal 
Artillery officers were present under Clive at Plassey on 23rd June, 
1757 - 
At the battle of Warburg on the 30th July, 1760 the British Artill¬ 
ery, again under the command of Colonel Phillips, for the first time 
came into action at a gallop. 
Before leaving this period attention must be turned to North Ameri¬ 
ca where the French lost Canada chiefly by the fall of Louisbourg 
in 1758 and finally by Wolfe’s victory at Quebec on the 13th Septem¬ 
ber 1759. Of the former affair the Royal Artillery Institution possess¬ 
es a most interesting relic in shape of a picture of the siege in black 
and white ‘ drawn on the spot ’ by Thomas Davies (No. 228). At this 
siege the artillery was commanded by George Williamson (No. 31). 
A.t Quebec the only artillery officer present with fifty gunners at the 
battle on the plains of Abraham was John Yorke (No. 154) who in the 
famous picture is shown supporting Wolfe in his arms. 
Plate V. 1764 is a period containing the end of the seven years’ war. 
Francis Downman (No. 299) and Thomas Ross (No. 43) were two out 
of a large number of Royal Artillery officers who saw constant service 
between 1760 and 1764 in the West Indies, including the sieges of 
Dominica, Havana and Guadaloupe. In the expedition to Belleisle 
under Commodore Keppel and General Hodgson in June, 1761 there 
was a large force of artillery commanded by Desaguliers (No. 51) and 
under him were Abraham Tovey (No. 92) and Benjamin Stehelin sen¬ 
ior (No. 161). On the 10th September, 1762 Stephen Payne Adye 
(No. 308) was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant and since that date 
there has not ceased to be an officer of his name and family serving in 
the Royal Artillery. 
Plate VI. 1778 was in a period of comparative peace. Ten years 
before in February, 1768, Thomas Deane Pearse (No. 303) was trans¬ 
ferred to the East India Company’s artillery in Bengal, where the good 
work he did is best described in the following words of Captain E. Buck¬ 
le, Bengal Artillery the historian of that Corps : —‘For twenty years he 
‘ commanded the regiment, and under his eye it grew from infancy to 
‘ maturity and passed through many trials yet always winning for itself 
‘ thanks and praises; to his exertions in instructing all parties in the 
‘ details of their duties it owed its excellence, and long as the regiment 
‘ may last, and high as its fame may rise, the name of Pearse ought al- 
' ways to be gratefully associated with it.’ 
A small and faded but very striking portrait of Pearse hangs in the 
West Ante-Room of the Royal Artillery Mess, Woolwich. 
Plate VII. 1793. This is the year of the first formation of the Roy¬ 
al Horse Artillery. Frederick the Great has the credit of introducing 
horse artillery on the Continent but galloping guns had long been 
