Hew Ross of the Chestnut Troop

Hew Ross of the Chestnut Troop

With the Royal Horse Artillery During the Peninsular War and at Waterloo: Memoir of Field-Marshal Sir Hew Dalrymple Ross, G. C. B. by Hew Dalrymple Ross with an Appendix by Francis Duncan

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Wellington's galloping guns and the men who served them in war There are few images of the British Army in battle against the French Army of Napoleon Bonaparte that are more evocative than the Royal Horse Artillery in action. The principal work in this book is the memoir of one of the most renowned RHA officers of the period, Hew Ross who commanded the famous Chestnut Troop. In 1809, Captain Ross's guns were attached to the legendary Light Division, commanded by the truculent Robert Craufurd, which ensured they were always in the vanguard of the army in Portugal and Spain. The troop fought at ...