Napoleon's Guns 1792-1815 (1): Field Artillery

Rene Chartrand (Author)

Napoleon's Guns 1792-1815 (1): Field Artillery
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
19 February 2003
Pages
48
ISBN
9781841764580

Napoleon’s Guns 1792-1815 (1): Field Artillery

Rene Chartrand (Author)

As a young gunner, Napoleon Bonaparte was trained in one of Europe’s finest artillery arms. Both the technological sophistication of their weaponry and the skill of their gunners was largely the result of the adoption of the system devised by one man, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval. Gribeauval’s standardised system of parts and calibres allowed a degree of uniformity and sophistication in the French artillery that was unmatched throughout Europe, and allowed Napoleon to inherit and develop an arm that could dominate the battlefield. This volume covers the field artillery pieces of the system: the 4-, 8- and 12-pdr guns; light 1-pdr guns and mountain guns; and later innovations such as the 6-pdr gun.

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