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SIR HEW DALRYMPLE ROSS (1779-1868)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 740 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR HEW DALRYMPLE See also:ROSS (1779-1868)  , See also:British soldier, entered the Royal Military See also:Academy, See also:Woolwich, in 1793, and passed out into the Royal See also:Artillery two years later . With the Royal See also:Horse Artillery he saw active service during the Irish See also:rebellion of 1798, and after eleven years' service was promoted See also:captain and appointed to command " A " See also:troop R.H.A . (afterwards famous as the " See also:Chestnut Troop ") . In 1809 the troop landed at See also:Lisbon and at once set out to join See also:Wellington's See also:army, reaching the front two days after Talavera . See also:Ross's guns were attached to the See also:Light See also:Division, and, with See also:Craufurd, took See also:part in the actions on the Coa and the See also:battle of Busaco . When See also:Massena began his famous See also:retreat from the lines of Torres Vedras, Ross's troop was amongst the foremost in the pursuit; at Redinha and See also:Pombal, at Sabugal and Fuentes d'Onor, the " Chestnuts " earned See also:great distinction, and in See also:December 1811 their See also:commander received a See also:brevet-See also:majority for his services . He was See also:present at See also:Ciudad Rodrigo and See also:Badajoz, at the See also:Salamanca forts and the battle of Salamanca, still attached to the Light Division . In the See also:campaign of See also:Vittoria, Ross's guns were continually with the most advanced troops, and after Vittoria they captured the only piece of artillery that remained to the defeated See also:French . A further brevet-promotion and a See also:good service See also:reward came to Ross for his part in the campaign . At See also:Vera in the See also:Pyrenees Ross's troop was one of the three which played a decisive part in the See also:action, and Vera remains a classical example of the action of horse artillery . " A " troop was engaged at St See also:Pierre and See also:Orthez, and at the conclusion of See also:peace returned to See also:England . It was engaged at See also:Waterloo, and though See also:half its guns were disabled the See also:remainder took part in the pursuit of the French .

Ross received, besides the See also:

Peninsular and Waterloo medals, the K.C.B., the Portuguese See also:order of the See also:Tower and See also:Sword and the See also:Russian St See also:Anne . He had commanded the troop for nineteen years when he at last received a regimental See also:lieutenant-colonelcy . As officer commanding Royal Artillery in the See also:Northern See also:District, with delegated command over all the forces of the four northern counties, See also:Sir Hew Ross had for nearly sixteen years to See also:deal with continually threatened See also:civil disorder, and See also:bore himself as well as on the See also:field of battle . From 1840 to 1858, when he retired, he practically directed, in one See also:post or another, all the artillery services of the British army, and when in 1854 the test of See also:war came, the artillery took the field in a far better See also:condition than the See also:rest offt,ord See also:Raglan's army . Much of the present efficiency of the " Royal See also:Regiment " is directly traceable to the See also:influence of Sir Hew Ross, to whom it owes the institution of the School of Gunnery at See also:Shoeburyness and the See also:establishment of the Royal Artillery Institution at Woolwich . See also:Major-See also:general in 1841 and lieut.-general in 1851, he became general in 1854, and died, a field-See also:marshal and G.C.B., in 1868 . See Memoir of the R.A . Institution, 1871; and See also:Duncan, See also:History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery .

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