Netherlands Artillery
in the Waterloo Campaign

Foot Artillery Company ‘Rommel’

by Geert van Uythoven, The Netherlands

The ‘northern’ 1st company of the 4th Line artillery battalion was commanded by Captain F. Rommel. This company was in the main reserve park which was attached to the 2nd Netherlands Army Corps (Prince Frederick of Orange), as this corps was assigned to besiege French fortresses when necessary during its advance into France, together with the Foot artillery company ‘Van der Linden’, and a train detachment of 169 men and 387 horses, commanded by 1st Lieutenant W. Savelkoul. The company is listed with a strength of 122 men and 2 horses present on 18 July 1815. In any case, the company was without guns and saw no combat during the Waterloo campaign. Netherlands Artillery in the Waterloo Campaign 1815 Part III: Artillery Batteries and Companies Introduction Foot Artillery Company ‘Bunnik’ Foot Artillery Battery ‘Du Bois’ Foot Artillery Battery ‘Kaempfer’ Foot Artillery Company ‘Van der Linden’ Foot Artillery Battery ‘Lux’ Foot Artillery Battery ‘Riesz’ Foot Artillery Company ‘Rommel’ Foot Artillery Battery ‘Scheffer’ Foot Artillery Battery ‘Severijns’ Foot Artillery Battery ‘Spies’ Foot Artillery Battery ‘Steenberghe’ Foot Artillery Battery ‘Stevenart’ Foot Artillery Battery ‘Wijnands’ Horse Artillery Battery ‘Bijleveld’ Half Horse artillery Battery ‘Gey’ Horse Artillery Battery ‘Krahmer’ Half Horse Artillery Battery ‘Petter’ Acknowledgements, Bibliography, and Footnotes Netherlands Artillery in the Waterloo Campaign 1815 Part II: Artillery Officers [First Empire 72] Introduction Adriaan Bijleveld David Esaias Bode (Boode) Lodewijk Hendrik Du Bois A.Willem Du Pont Adrianus Rudolf Willem Gey Carel August Gunkel (Gunckel) Godfried Jacob Holsman Nicolaas Lodewijk Kaempfer Carel Frederik Krahmer de Bichin Martinus Antonius Kuytenbrouwer Frederik Carel List Johannes Hendrik Lux Prince (William) Frederick Carl van Oranje-Nassau Abraham Petter Carel Jan Riesz Johan George Hendrik Scheffer Jacques-Louis-Dominique, Baron van der Smissen Johannes Nicolaas Spies Maximilian-Henry Steenberghe Emmanuel-Joseph Stevenart Hendrik Rudolph Trip Pieter Wijnands Leopold Winssinger Netherlands Artillery in the Waterloo Campaign 1815 Part I [First Empire 71] An Artillery Arm is Raised in the Northern Netherlands The Artillery in the Southern Netherlands The Artillery Arm in the Kingdom of the Netherlands Equipment and The Train Unit Info and Roster (very slow: 377K) Back to Table of Contents -- First Empire # 73 Back to First Empire List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2003 by First Empire. This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com