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strength in the field, was one colonel, one lieut.-colonel, one major, five 
captains, six captain-lieuts., four first and seven second-lieuts., and seventeen 
lieut.-fireworkers, chaplain, adjutant, quarter-master, bridge-master, surgeon 
and mate; fifteen serjeants, fifteen corporals, one drum-major, ten drummers, 
and six fifers; forty bombardiers, forty-eight cadets, ninety-eight gunners, 
and two hundred and ninety-one mattrosses, total four hundred and seventy- 
seven. The cadets form'd on the right of the battalion as grenadiers, and 
there were three light 6-prs. on each flank of the battalion. 
1754 In March a detachment commanded by a captain-lieut. with five 
officers, twelve cadets, and about sixty non-commissioned officers and 
privates embark'd for the East Indies. 
The halberts were taken from the corporals and bombardiers, and they fell 
into the ranks with carbines. 
In November this year, a detachment of fifty men of the regiment of 
artillery embark'd with the two battalions No. 44 and 48, under the command 
of Major-General Braddock for America. Captain Ord being then with his 
company in Newfoundland was by desire of the Duke of Cumberland order'd 
from thence to command this detachment, which was mostly cut to pieces 
near Eort Du Quesne, on the Mononguhela, on the 9th of July 1755. 
This was the first detachment of the corps sent to America; and it was 
on this occasion that the officers of the Royal Regiment of Artillery serving 
in the field received for the first time batt money, or an allowance in cash 
for the carriage of their baggage; for as neither horses or carriages could be 
contracted for, nor procured in any manner in the country which was the 
scene of Major-General Braddock's operations. Captain Ord commanding the 
artillery on that service, order'd each officer to be paid in cash a sum equal 
to what was allowed by the Board of Ordnance in their contract for horses 
and carriages in the campaigns during the last war in Elanders, where a 
captain was allow'd a waggon with four horses for the transport of his 
baggage, and the same to two subalterns, and so in proportion to the 
other ranks, which mode has been continued ever since in America. 
During the peace from 1748 to 1756, the Duke of Cumberland review’d 
the corps annually at Woolwich. 
List of the Officers of the Royal Regiment of Artillery , as they 
stood in February , 1755. 
Colonel, William Belford. 
Lieut.-Colonel, Borgard Mitclielson. 
Major, George Williamson. 
Captains. 
1 James Mace, Minorca. 
2 John Chalmers, Woolwich. 
3 Thomas Disaguliers, Woolwich. 
4 Thomas Flight, Woolwich. 
6 Thomas Ord, Newfoundland, 
6 James Pattison, N. Britain. 
7 Alexander Leith, Gibraltar. 
8 John Skeddy, Woolwich. 
9 Charles Brome, N. Scotia. 
10 John Godwin, Woolwich. 
Capt.-Lieuts. 
1 Samuel Shepardson, 
2 Edward Sibbet. 
3 John Farquharson. 
4 Thomas James, Gibraltar. 
5 William Hislop, E. Indies. 
6 Bobert Hind, America. 
7 Charles Farrington. 
8 Jacob Gregory, Newfoundland. 
9 Joseph Brome and adjutant. 
10 John Northal, Minorca. 
