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M1841 6-pounder field gun stands at Gettysburg National Military Park. The sign indicates that Latham's Confederate Battery was armed with one 6-pounder, one 12-pounder howitzer, and three 12-pounder Napoleons. The M1841 bronze 6-pounder cannon proved to be a highly effective weapon during the Mexican–American War. [30]
The M1841 mountain howitzer was a mountain gun used by the United States Army during the mid-nineteenth century, from 1837 to about 1870. It saw service during the Mexican–American War of 1847–1848, the American Indian Wars, and during the American Civil War, 1861–1865 (primarily in the more rugged western theaters).
76-mm mountain gun M1904 Russia: World War I 76.2: 76 mm mountain gun M1909 Russia / Soviet Union: World War I / World War II 76.2: 76-mm mountain gun M1938 Soviet Union: World War II 80: De Bange 80 mm cannon France: 1877- World War I 87.6: Ordnance QF 25-pounder Short Australia: World War II 94: 3.7-inch mountain howitzer United Kingdom
The Ordnance quick-firing 6-pounder 7 cwt, [note 1] or just 6-pounder, was a British 57 mm gun, serving during the Second World War as a primary anti-tank gun of both the British and United States Army (as the 57 mm gun M1). It was also used as the main armament for a number of armoured fighting vehicles.
Norwegian 6-pounder muzzle-loading mountain cannon of 1848 British Indian Army crew assembles a 2.5 inch muzzle-loading "screw gun" c. 1895 Mule transport of barrel of US Army 75 mm pack howitzer c. 1916
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
87.6: Ordnance QF 25-pounder gun-howitzer United Kingdom: World War II, modern 87.6: Ordnance QF 25-pounder Short Mark 1 gun-howitzer Australia: World War II 94: Ordnance QF 95 mm howitzer, infantry United Kingdom: World War II 100: 10 cm M. 14 Feldhaubitze Austria-Hungary: World Wars I, II 100: Skoda houfnice vz 14/19 Austria-Hungary: World ...
In the summer of 1868 a detachment from Battery I of the 2nd Regiment of Artillery established a small outpost at Fort Wrangell (which was previously a trading post) in a 200 by 200 feet area, surrounded by a 10-foot log wall with elevated platforms, a 12-pounder mountain howitzer, and a 6-pounder cannon. In December 1869 the fort was ...