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Canon de 6 système An XI, detail. Emblem of Napoleon I on an 1813 Canon de 6 système An XI . French 6-pounder field gun, cast in 1813 in Metz, captured at the Battle of Waterloo by the Duke of Wellington, now at the Tower of London. The canon de 6 système An XI was used extensively during the Napoleonic Wars.
The M1841 6-pounder was designed as a smoothbore gun, and only later were some 6-pounders converted to rifled guns. [13] The Eagle Foundry of Miles Greenwood of Cincinnati delivered 97 bronze 6-pounders of which 43 were rifled between August 1861 and December 1862.
To recommend the introduction of a 6-pdr and the suppression of the 4-pdr and the 8-pdr. The field artillery would thus be composed of a 12-pdr cannon, a 6-pdr cannon and a 24-pdr (5.72-inch) howitzer. The mountain artillery would have the short 3-pdr cannon, short 6-pdr cannon and 24-pdr howitzer.
6-pounder gun or 6-pdr, usually denotes a 57-millimetre (2.2 in) gun firing a projectile weighing approximately 6 pounds (2.7 kg). Guns of this type include: QF 6 pounder Hotchkiss , a 57 mm naval gun of the 1880s; a similar weapon was designed by Driggs-Schroeder for the US Navy
[6] This style of gun was the artillery of choice for Napoleon, considering they were lighter by one third than the cannons of any other country. For example, the barrel of the British 12-pounder weighed 3,150 pounds, and the gun with carriage and limber about 6,500 lb (2,900 kg). The Gribeauval 12-lb barrels weighed 2,174 pounds and the gun ...
The 1-pounder Rostaing gun and the Swedish 4-pounder battalion guns were retained from the previous system. [4] Gribeauval's reforms encompassed not only the cannons but also the gun carriages, limbers, ammunition chests, and the accompanying tools. [5] The system's field guns included 4-, 8-, and 12-pounder cannons and 6- and 8-inch howitzers.
The Year XI system included 6- and 12-pounder cannons and 5.5 in (14 cm) and 6 in (15 cm) howitzers. Gribeauval field artillery continued to be used however. [ 6 ] In 1829 France adopted the Valée system which reduced the calibers of field artillery to 8- and 12-pound cannons and 24-pound and 6-inch howitzers.
In 1805, Aleksey Arakcheyev introduced a new range of field artillery that consisted of 6- and 12-pounder cannons and 10- and 20-pounder licornes, a gun similar to a howitzer. [8] An Allied order of battle from 1 January 1814 noted that Light Batteries were armed with 6-pounders.