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THE ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY DURING THE PENINSULA WAR, AND THE BATTLE OF
WATERLOO, DURING THE NAPOLEONIC WARS. INCLUDING THE BATTLE OF FUENTOS
D'ONORO, OF CAPTAIN RAMSAY, AND THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO SHOWING CAPTAIN MERCER'S
BATTERY. MILITARY PRINTS BY LEADING MILITARY ARTISTS, DAVID ROWLANDS, MARK
CHURMS, WILLIAM BARNES WOLLEN AND RICHARD CATON WOODVILLE. |
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The Royal Horse Artillery (part of the Royal Artillery) was raised in 1793.
The Regiment does not display Battle Honours, although during Ceremony the
Guns are given the same honour as standards, Many batteries are
awarded honour titles , which commemorate actions which the Battery
concerned played a major role.
Many of the prints available are showing many batteries at these major
events.
VICTORIA CROSS AWARDS. BETWEEN THE ROYAL ARTILLERY AND THE ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY, THERE HAS BEEN
SIXTY TWO VICTORIA CROSS'S AWARDED.
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| Battle of Leipzig, 16th-18th October 1813 by David
Rowlands At 'The Battle of the Nations' Napoleon was heavily defeated by the
Allied Army, which included the 2nd Rocket Troop Royal Horse Artillery.
Fuentos Onoro, May 5th 1811 (Ramsays Battery of Horse
Artillery) by Wollen
Officer R.H.A Belgium 1815, by Mark Churms Through the driving rain, Captain Merver (G, troop Royal Horse Artillery),
riding his charger Cossack leads his battery to the ridge of Mount Saint Jean on
the eve of the Battle of Waterloo.
From Coruna to Sebastopol
: The History of C Battery, A Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery. A unit history of a Royal Artillery Battery formed in
the 1790s down to its service at the Siege of Sebastopol during the
Crimean War. The author begins his particular history with a useful
general survey of the development of artillery from its invention around
1320 until the French revolutionary wars. C Troop, later C Battery,
accompanied Sir John Moore to Spain in 1808 and took part in the retreat
to and battle of Corunna. Returning to Spain, the unit was present at the
battles of Albuera and Fuentes dOnoro and was present in the final action
of the war, the battle of Toulouse. As C battery, the unit was sent to the
Crimea, taking part in the battles of the Alma, Balaclava, and Inkerman.
After participating in the lengthy Siege of Sebastopol the unit saw
service in India. Accompanied by several appendices giving battery muster
rolls, lists of officers etc.
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