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1 A Call to Arms 1/12/07 4:44 PM Page 465 CHAPTER THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON S CAVALRY Here is a picture a very incomplete one of the cavalry in the Duke of Wellington s day. The picture remained the same, with but minor changes, until after the Crimean War nearly half a century later. Like the infantry, the cavalry was organized in regiments. Each had a colonel as titular head, usually a very senior officer (in the case of the 10th Light Dragoons, for instance, it was the Prince of Wales; in the case of the fictional 6th Light Dragoons it was first the Earl of Sussex and then Lord George Irvine, both lieutenant generals) who kept a fatherly if distant eye on things, in particular the appointment of officers. The actual command of the regiment was exercised by a lieutenant-colonel. He had a major as his second in command (or senior major as he was known in the Sixth and other regiments), an adjutant who was usually commissioned from the ranks, a regimental serjeant-major (RSM) and various other specialist staff. 465
2 A Call to Arms 1/12/07 4:44 PM Page 466 A CALL TO ARMS A cavalry regiment comprised a number of troops identified by a letter (A Troop, B Troop, etc.), each of a hundred or so men commanded by a captain, though in practice the troops were usually under strength. The number of troops in a regiment varied depending on where it was stationed; in Spain, for instance, at the height of the war, there were eight. The captain was assisted by two or three subaltern officers lieutenants and cornets (second-lieutenants) and a troop serjeant-major, who before 1811 was known as a quartermaster (QM). After 1811 a regimental quartermaster was established to supervise supply and quartering (accommodation) for the regiment as a whole men and horses. There was also a riding-master (RM), like the QM usually commissioned from the ranks ( the ranks referred to everyone who was not a commissioned officer, in other words RSM and below). With his staff of rough-riders (a rough was an unbroken remount, a replacement horse) the RM was responsible for training recruits both human and equine. Troops were sometimes paired in squadrons, numbered First, Second, Third (and occasionally Fourth). On grand reviews in the eighteenth century the colonel would command the first squadron, the lieutenant-colonel the second, and the major the third, each squadron bearing an identifying guidon, a silk banner similar to the infantry battalion s colours. By the time of the Peninsular War, however, guidons were no longer carried mounted in the field, and the squadron was commanded by the senior of the two troop leaders (captains). 466
3 A Call to Arms 1/12/07 4:44 PM Page 467 A troop or squadron leader, as well indeed as the commanding officer, would give his orders in the field by voice and through his trumpeter. His words of command were either carried along the line by the sheer power of his voice, or were repeated by the troop officers, or in the case of the commanding officer were relayed by the adjutant ( gallopers and aides-de-camp performed the same function for general officers). The trumpet was often used for repeating an order and to recall or signal scattered troops. The commanding officer and each captain had his own trumpeter, who was traditionally mounted on a grey, and they were trained by the trumpet-major (who, incidentally, was traditionally responsible for administering floggings). The lowest rank was private man. In a muster roll, for instance, he was entered as Private John Smith ; he was addressed by all ranks, however, simply as Smith. In the Sixth and regiments like them he would be referred to as a dragoon. The practice of referring to him as a trooper came much later; the cavalry rank trooper only replaced private officially after the First World War. In Wellington s day, a trooper was the man s horse troop horse; an officer s horse was known as a charger (which he had to buy for himself two of them at least along with all his uniform and equipment). A dragoon, a private soldier, would hope in time to be promoted corporal, and he would then be addressed as, say, Corporal Smith by all ranks. The rank of lance-corporal, or in some regiments chosen man, was not yet properly established, though it was used 467
4 A Call to Arms 1/12/07 4:44 PM Page 468 A CALL TO ARMS unofficially. In due course a corporal might be promoted sergeant (with a j in the Sixth and other regiments) and perhaps serjeant-major. The best of these noncommissioned officers (NCOs every rank from corporal to RSM, i.e. between private and cornet, since warrant rank was not yet properly established), if he survived long enough, would hope to be promoted RSM, and would then be addressed by the officers as Mr Smith (like the subaltern officers), or by subordinates as Sir. In time the RSM might be commissioned as a lieutenant to be adjutant, QM or RM. All ranks (i.e. private men, NCOs and officers) were armed with a sword, called in the cavalry a sabre (the lance was not introduced until after Waterloo), and in the early years of the Napoleonic wars with two pistols. Other ranks (all ranks less the officers) also carried a carbine, which was a short musket, handier for mounted work. And of course there were the horses. The purchase of these was a regimental responsibility, unless on active service, and the quality varied with the depth of the lieutenant-colonel s pockets. Each troop had a farrier, trained by the farrier-major, responsible to the captain for the shoeing of every horse in the troop, and to the veterinary surgeon for the troop horses health. Hard feed (oats, barley, etc.) and forage (hay, or cut grass green forage ) were the serjeant-major s responsibility along with other practical details such as the condition of saddlery, allocation of routine duties and, par excellence, discipline. Although the cavalry often worked independently, 468
5 A Call to Arms 1/12/07 4:44 PM Page 469 sending detachments on escort duty, patrols and pickets, regiments were usually grouped into brigades of three or more, commanded by a brigadier who was a full colonel or major general (brigadier at this time was an appointment not a rank), with a brigade-major as his staff officer. Brigades could in turn be grouped into divisions (most spectacularly in the retreat to Corunna under the command of that quintessential cavalry general Lord Uxbridge, later Marquess of Anglesey) or attached to an infantry division or to a corps of two or more divisions. The cavalry were prized for their flexibility, though Wellington complained that they were too frequently unmanageable in the field, with the habit of galloping at everything. The independent-mindedness of cavalry officers had in part to do with the manner of their commissioning. The cavalry (and the infantry) were the responsibility of the commander-in-chief for most of the period of these cavalry tales the Duke of York, whose headquarters were at the Horse Guards in Whitehall. On the other hand, the artillery, engineers and other technical services were the responsibility of the Master General of the Ordnance, whose explosives authority gave him a seat in the Cabinet. To make matters even more complicated, the commissariat and transport were the direct responsibility of the Treasury. Officers of the MGO s arms were appointed to their commissions without purchase and promoted on seniority and merit. Those of the cavalry and infantry, with a few exceptions, purchased their commissions and promotion. They actually paid several thousand pounds 469
6 A Call to Arms 1/12/07 4:44 PM Page 470 A CALL TO ARMS for the privilege of serving. When it came to their turn on the seniority list, they bought promotion to the next higher rank, which in practice meant selling their present rank through the regimental agents to someone else and paying the difference in price for the higher one. In fact a rich and influential officer did not need to bide his time on the seniority list: he could offer an officer in another regiment more than the going rate for his rank called paying overprice. The exception was during active service, when the death of an officer meant that the vacancy passed without purchase to the next regimental officer on the seniority list. Hence the officers black-humoured toast, To a bloody war and a sickly season! The iniquities of the purchase system are obvious, principally in the widespread abuse of the supposedly strict and fair rules. The advantages are less so, but they were nonetheless significant (space precludes a worthwhile discussion of the purchase system here, and I commend instead the essay in the first volume of the Marquess of Anglesey s History of the British Cavalry). There is no doubt, however, that with so many men under arms, England (which in Wellington s time was shorthand for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) was on the whole well served by it. It did mean, though, that men such as Matthew Hervey, a son of the vicarage, of the minor gentry the backbone of Wellington s officer corps who had little private money, had to watch while others less capable and experienced than they overtook them in the promotion stakes. There were promotions for 470
7 A Call to Arms 1/12/07 4:44 PM Page 471 meritorious service occasionally, but the opportunities were few even in so large an army, and when peace came to Europe in 1815 the opportunities became even rarer. This, then, is the army in which Matthew Hervey is making his way a slow, sometimes disheartening progress, but with the advantage of knowing that he serves among friends who face the same odds, and with NCOs with whom he has, so to speak, grown up. The strength of the army was this regimental system, because the regiment was largely self-supporting and self-healing. It remains so today. It is threatened more than ever before, however. For who that has not served in a regiment, directly or indirectly, can truly appreciate its strength? Certainly not the Treasury, and, I begin to doubt, even the War Office. 471
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C A V A L R Y T A C T I C S. F I R S T P A R T. SCHOOL OF THE TROOPER, OF THE PLATOON AND OF THE SQUADRON, DISMOUNTED. PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT. PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT, & CO. 1862.
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