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A lifesize model of a Swedish 1850s horse artillery team towing a light artillery piece, in the Swedish Army Museum, Stockholm.. Horse artillery was a type of light, fast-moving, and fast-firing field artillery that consisted of light cannons or howitzers attached to light but sturdy two-wheeled carriages called caissons or limbers, with the individual crewmen riding on horses.
Nock produced many innovative weapons. In 1793, he made a double-barrelled pistol with a removable stock for the Royal Horse Artillery. However, this weapon was impractical with the stock removed and was usually used as a carbine. In 1797, Nock put into production a 9-inch pistol (pattern 1796) for heavy dragoons with a calibre matching their ...
The RML 9-pounder 8 cwt gun and the RML 9-pounder 6 cwt gun were British Rifled, Muzzle Loading (RML) field, horse and naval artillery guns manufactured in England in the 19th century. They fired a projectile weighing approximately 9 pounds (4.1 kg). "8 cwt " and "6 cwt" refers to the weight of the gun to differentiate it from other 9-pounder guns.
The Armata 75 mm wz.02/26 was a light field gun used by Poland before and during World War II. It began life as the 76 mm divisional gun M1902, a Russian light field gun used in the Russo-Japanese War, World War I, Russian Civil War and Polish–Soviet War.
With the King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, London; Imperial War Museum collection: The Néry Gun and limber, used during the action at Néry, 1 September 1914. [7] [8] No.4 Gun, E Battery Royal Horse Artillery; fired the first British artillery round on the Western Front, August 1914. [4] Cart and Wagon Shed heritage centre, Shoeburyness
The Royal Horse Artillery, currently consists of three regiments, (1 RHA, 3 RHA and 7 RHA) and one ceremonial unit (King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery). Almost all the batteries of the Royal Horse Artillery have served continuously since the French Revolutionary Wars or Napoleonic Wars , except the King's Troop, created in 1946, and M Battery ...
It also proved too heavy to manoeuvre for horse artillery, which was intended to support cavalry in battle. The 12-pounder 6 cwt gun was thus developed in 1892, when the new more powerful cordite replaced gunpowder, as a lighter alternative. It had a barrel 18 inches (460 mm) shorter, on a lighter and simpler carriage, and it entered service ...
Jean-Jacques Desvaux de Saint-Maurice, in Guard horse artillery officer's uniform. The Regime of the Horse Artillery of the Imperial Guard was created by imperial decree on 15 April 1806. It was organized into three squadrons, two of veterans and one of velites, each divided into two companies of 60 men, for a theoretical total of 360 artillerymen.