Netherlands Artillery
in the Waterloo Campaign
Foot Artillery Battery ‘Scheffer’
by Geert van Uythoven, The Netherlands
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This ‘northern’ battery was served by the 4th company of the 1st Line artillery battalion. The battery was commanded by Captain Johan George Hendrik Scheffer (48 years old). This battery was armed with six short 6-pdr bronze cannon, and two 24-pdr (iron) bronze howitzers. On 13 August 1814 Scheffer received command of the company mentioned above. His company was one of the first batteries that was made mobile, on paper being part of the ‘occupation army’ in the southern Netherlands that was commanded by Prince Frederick of Orange. On 20 January, the battery was in Namur. When after the return of Napoleon the Netherlands Mobile Army was formed, the battery was assigned to the 2nd Brigade (Major-General Dominique Jacques d’Eerens) of the 1ste Nederlandsche Divisie (Lieutenant-General Jan Andries Stedman). On 20 April the battery had a total strength of 160 men. Apparently it took much to long before this battery was able to take the field properly, and therefore on 20 May 1815 it was relieved by the Foot artillery battery ‘Wijnands’ and returned to Breda. Netherlands Artillery in the Waterloo Campaign 1815 Part III: Artillery Batteries and Companies
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]
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]
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