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thought of in the British service, so much so that on 5th June, 1725 
the Board of Ordnance approved of the designs of galloping carriages 
for 6-prs., 3-prs. and ij^-prs., submitted by Thomas James (No. 21); 
evidently these came to nothing for it was not until 1793 that the Duke 
of Richmond, Master-General of the Ordnance, succeeded in forming 
two troops. Robert Lawson (No. 369) obtained command of the first 
or ‘ A ’ troop, since become famous as ‘ The Chestnut Troop ’; John 
Macleod (No. 456) obtained command of the other troop as a reward 
for his exertions as head of the Regimental staff of the Royal Artillery 
at the time when they were formed; Vaughan Lloyd (No. 241) was 
appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the Horse Brigade. The first time 
the Royal Horse Artillery saw service was in 1799 when ‘A’ Troop 
in Holland fought under the Duke of York at Egmont-op-Zee, com¬ 
manded by Thomas Judgson (No. 522). 
The uniforms in Plate VIII. 1794, were those worn by Charles New- 
house (No. 707) and the gunners under his command at Toulon in 1793 
where John Lemoine (No. 635) distinguished himself as a young officer 
From 1778, the date of the last Plate, No. VI., in which other than 
Royal Horse Artillery is depicted, down to 1794 was a period full of 
action for British arms as it includes the American War of Indepen¬ 
dence, the great Siege of Gibraltar, Coote’s victories in India and the 
beginning of the Wars of the French Revolution in 1793. Disastrous 
as was the result of the American war to Britain and her generals 
several Artillery officers contrived to win distinction from it; in par¬ 
ticular William Phillips (No. 153), who has already been mentioned in 
command of the Artillery at Minden and Warburg, joined the army in 
America in 1776, the second year of the war, fought in several actions, 
was made prisoner, was exchanged for the American General, Lincoln, 
rejoined the army and died of disease at Petersburg, Virginia in May, 
1781. There is a very fine engraving of him of which a copy hangs 
in the Royal Artillery Institution and under it there is a photograph of 
Old Blandford Church, Virginia, where he is buried and where a stone 
has lately been placed over his grave by the kind action of some 
American gentlemen, admirers of the local traditions of Phillips and 
his character. 
Sir W. Congreve (No. 260) commanded the Artillery in several of 
the earlier campaigns of the American war; of him also the Royal 
Artillery Institution possesses a very good engraving, representing him 
at a later period in his career. 
Among the more famous of the many Artillerymen who served in 
America were (Sir) Anthony Farrington (No. 214), John Yorke (No. 
154), Griffith Williams (No. 131) ; the last named I have already men¬ 
tioned as present at Minden and of him the Royal Artillery Institution 
possesses a fine half-length portrait in oils presented by his nephew 
Charles Williams Esq.; to continue the list in America—Francis Down- 
man (No. 299), (Sir) Thomas Blomefield (No. 334), Robert Douglas(No. 
424), (Sir) John Smith (No. 458), (Sir) Edward Howorth (No. 484), 
George Cookson (No. 566) and George Rochfort (No. 253). 
In the defence of Gibraltar a very great force of Artillery was engaged 
