MEMOIR OF FIELD-MARSHAL SIR HEW DALRYMPLE ROSS, G.C.B., ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY
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"mint pbk facsimile 106p. 12 plates, with a new introduction by Muir. Ross landed in Portugal with “A” troop Royal Horse Artillery in 1809. Attached to the Light Division his troop took part in the actions at Coa & Busaco. He harried Massena’s retreating army after Torres Vedras & earnt his Majority. Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria & the Pyrenees all added to his distinguished service, completed at Waterloo where half his guns were disabled. Ross’s A Troop was the very first battery in the modern sense of a self-contained, mobile tactical unit, in the British military and may well have been the very first permanent such unit in Europe."
"mint pbk facsimile 106p. 12 plates, with a new introduction by Muir. Ross landed in Portugal with “A” troop Royal Horse Artillery in 1809. Attached to the Light Division his troop took part in the actions at Coa & Busaco. He harried Massena’s retreating army after Torres Vedras & earnt his Majority. Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria & the Pyrenees all added to his distinguished service, completed at Waterloo where half his guns were disabled. Ross’s A Troop was the very first battery in the modern sense of a self-contained, mobile tactical unit, in the British military and may well have been the very first permanent such unit in Europe."
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