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  2. Napoleonic weaponry and warfare - Wikipedia

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    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).

  3. Canon obusier de 12 - Wikipedia

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    The "12-pounder Napoleon" was widely admired because of its safety, reliability, and killing power, especially at close range. It was the last cast bronze gun used by an American army. The Union version of the Napoleon can be recognized by the flared front end of the barrel, called the muzzle swell. Confederate Napoleons were produced in at ...

  4. Canon de 12 Gribeauval - Wikipedia

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    The greatest use of Gribeauval guns came during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. During the latter wars, the 12-pounder was often employed in corps artillery reserves. Because of their physical and psychological effect, Emperor Napoleon increased the number of 12-pounders in his artillery and fondly called the cannons his ...

  5. Gribeauval system - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Napoleonic tactics - Wikipedia

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    Napoleon employed a variation of this tactic to crush the Vendémiaire uprising. Besides cannons, artillery was made up of howitzers and other type of guns that used ammunition that packed an explosive punch (also known as "explosive shells").

  7. Battle of Austerlitz - Wikipedia

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    The battle began with the French army outnumbered. Napoleon had some 72,000 men and 157 guns for the impending battle, with about 7,000 troops under Davout still far to the south in the direction of Vienna. [65] [66] The Allies had about 85,000 soldiers, seventy percent of them Russian, and 318 guns. [65] At first, Napoleon was not confident of ...

  8. Six Days' Campaign order of battle - Wikipedia

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    On 11 February, Napoleon marched west through Montmirail with 10,500 men, consisting of the Old Guard, Étienne Pierre Sylvestre Ricard's division, and 36 guns. The French faced Fabian Wilhelm von Osten-Sacken 's 18,000 Russians [ 22 ] (with 80 [ 23 ] or 90 guns [ 24 ] ) [ note 1 ] and Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg 's 18,000 Prussians.

  9. Siege of Riga (1812) - Wikipedia

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    The siege of Riga was a military operation during the Napoleonic Wars.The siege lasted five months from July – December 1812, during which the left flank of Napoleon's "Great Army" (La Grande Armée) tried to gain a favorable position for an attack on Russian-controlled port city Riga, the capital of the Governorate of Livonia.