War of the Austrian Succession (1740-8)
Includes much of the mapping collected by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, as Captain General of the British army
Army, 1747, Flanders
c.1747Pencil, pen and ink on paper | 32.2 x 40.7 cm (image and sheet) | RCIN 730171
This summary gives the number and calibre of the field guns allocated to each of eight brigades, and the same for the battalion guns; the totals for rounds of ammunition for guns and howitzers are given for each brigade: cartridges with round shot; quick firing round shot; grape shot; fixed shells; unfixed shells. The headings for the numbers of officers and men for each brigade are: Captains, Lieutenants, Serjeants or Corporals, Gunners and Mattrosses.
This tabulation is signed by Colonel Belford who commanded the Royal Artillery in Flanders in 1747-8; it may not have been written by him but may have been signed by him as an indication of the accuracy of its content.
Condition: four fold lines.
William Belford (active 1726-d.1 July 1780) (draughtsman) [bottom right:] Wm Belford Lt Colonel of Artillery.
Subject(s)
Army-GB-Artillery-Royal ArtilleryWatermark: VRYHEYT; Dutch lion facing left, holding six or seven darts and hat on stick, surrounded by the words ‘Pro Patria Eiusque Libertate’ inside a double-lined double crowned circle; countermark: crowned monogram GR
Mark, stamped: 691
Condition: four fold lines
32.2 x 40.7 cm (image and sheet)
Manuscript title:
Abstract of the Cannon of the Royal Artillery as they are at present form'd into Brigades with their / Proportion of Ammunition, as also the Number of Officers and men appointed to attend them September 11. NS 1747. [top]
Annotations:
George III heading: Army 11 Sept.r 1747.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [left of centre, ink:] Abstract of the Cannon / of the Royal Artillery as / they are at present form'd / into Brigades wth their / proportion of Ammunition &a / September 11.th N:S:. 1747; [top, left of centre, black pencil, in Schultz's or Mason's hand:] 112:B.; [bottom right, black pencil, in Schultz's or Mason's hand]: VII/36; [top left, black pencil, erased:] XIII/54-b.
George III catalogue entry:
Army Abstract of the Cannon of the Royal Artillery as they are at present formed into Brigades, with their proportion of ammunition; as also the number of Officiers and Men appointed to attend them, 11.th September 1747: by Lieut. Col Belford. MS.
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