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The 6-inch howitzer was used extensively during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, but its first major operational use was even earlier, during the American Revolutionary War, in General Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau's French expeditionary corps in 1780–1782, and especially at the Siege of Yorktown ...
152 mm howitzer BL 6-inch 30 cwt howitzer United Kingdom: 152 mm howitzer 6-inch howitzer M1908 United States: 152 mm howitzer 6-inch siege gun M1877 Russian Empire: 152 mm siege gun 6-inch siege gun M1904 Russian Empire: 152 mm siege gun 7 cm Gebirgsgeschütz M 99 Austria-Hungary: 70 mm mountain gun 7.5 cm FK 7M85 Nazi Germany: 75 mm field gun
The system included 4-, 8- and 12-pounder field pieces, the Obusier de 6 pouces Gribeauval (6-inch howitzer), and the 1-pounder light cannon. [2] In the event, the 1-pounder was quickly abandoned. [3] The Canon de 12 Gribeauval was used extensively during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. [1]
The new guns contributed to French military victories during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. The system included improvements to cannons , howitzers , and mortars . The Year XI system partly replaced the field guns in 1803 and the Valée system completely superseded the Gribeauval system in 1829.
In the period before the Civil War, a U.S. Army light artillery battery was organized with four M1841 6-pounder field guns and two M1841 12-pounder howitzers. [1] The field gun fired solid iron cannon balls in a flat trajectory to smash its targets [2] while the howitzer was designed to lob hollow shells into massed formations or fortifications. [3]
The howitzer (/ ˈ h aʊ. ɪ t s ər /) is an artillery weapon that falls between a cannon (or field gun) and a mortar.It is capable of both low angle fire like a field gun and high angle fire like a mortar, given the distinction between low and high angle fire breaks at 45 degrees or 1600 mils (NATO).
The Gribeauval system included 4-, 8- and 12-pounder field pieces, the Obusier de 6 pouces Gribeauval (6-inch howitzer) and the 1-pounder light cannon, [1] though the 1-pounder was quickly abandoned. [3] The Canon de 4 Gribeauval was used extensively during the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802) and the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815).
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. Siege artillery was also modified, with the introduction of new Long 24-pdr and Short 24-pdr.