The now Society of Army Historical Research is rapidly increasing
its membership and was evidently needed. The third number of its Journal (Royal United Service Institution, 5s.) contains some interesting articles. Professor C. H. Firth prints from a rare broadside a ballad of 1747 on Culloden, with an old print of a flogging "at the halberts" of a soldier of the 4th Foot, which had distinguished itself greatly in the battle. Lord Dillon gives an account of five hundred wild Irish troops whom Henry VIII. employed at the capture of Boulogne in 1544. They were armed with darts and had their pipers with them. Colonel R. J. Macdonald describes, with illustrations, the artillery taken to France in 1415 by Henry V.. for use at Harfieur. Some of the guns weighed two tons and must have been difficult to move at a time when roads were bad and mechanical appliances very imperfect.
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