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Albert Borgard.
First Colonel of the Royal Artillery
A further reorganization of the Royal Artillery,involving alterations in the nomenclatureof Batteries, having taken place since thepublication of the Second Edition, the Author hasdeemed it desirable to issue a Third, with tablesadded to Appendix C, in the Second Volume, whichwill enable the reader to keep up the continuity.
These frequent changes are embarrassing to thestudent of history, but in the present instance thechange has been distinctly advantageous in anadministrative point of view.
The unexpected favour accorded to the first editionof this work having already rendered a secondnecessary, the author has taken the opportunityof making many corrections and additions, and ofembodying the indices of both volumes in one.The history, as it now stands, represents the servicesof the Corps in detai