. The military history of the Madras engineers and pioneers, from 1743 up to the present time . PLAN -O, of the 3- MILITARY COLLEGE. fi-orrv O-oy^fS MADEAS ENGINEERS. 295 than £15,200. The ground attached to Haileybury was aboutfifty-five acres.* Early in the century a certain number of cadets for theArtillery and Engineers of the East India Company studied atthe Royal Academy, Woolwich, and at Marlow ; while others,for whom there was no room at those institutions, worked underprivate tuition. Thus, in 1808 there were twenty-three at Woolwich, two atMarlow, and thirty-six at private academies.
. The military history of the Madras engineers and pioneers, from 1743 up to the present time . PLAN -O, of the 3- MILITARY COLLEGE. fi-orrv O-oy^fS MADEAS ENGINEERS. 295 than £15,200. The ground attached to Haileybury was aboutfifty-five acres.* Early in the century a certain number of cadets for theArtillery and Engineers of the East India Company studied atthe Royal Academy, Woolwich, and at Marlow ; while others,for whom there was no room at those institutions, worked underprivate tuition. Thus, in 1808 there were twenty-three at Woolwich, two atMarlow, and thirty-six at private academies. In the early part of the year 1809, the East India Companyfor the first time established a Seminary of their own. This Seminary was at first only large enough to hold fifty-eightcadets, while eighteen, still studied at Woolwich, and seven inprivate schools. Amongst those who first studied at the Semi-nary, were the following cadets, who were afterwards officers ofthe Madras Engineers : Nattes, J. W. Nattes, Alex. Ander-son, Alex. Grant, John Coventry, and Duncan Sim, while J. was at a private establishment. At t
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