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Cannon were first used abroad by the English during the Hundred Years War, when primitive artillery was used at the Battle of Crécy. With the Age of Discovery and the establishment of the Thirteen Colonies, cannon saw use in British armies in North America, first against the rival colony of New France, and later during the American ...
The Battle of Bull's Ferry on 20 and 21 July 1780 saw two American brigades under Brigadier-General Anthony Wayne attack a party of Loyalists led by Thomas Ward. The Loyalists successfully defended a blockhouse against an ineffective bombardment by four American artillery pieces and a failed attempt to storm the position by Wayne's troops.
The BL 8-inch howitzer Marks VI, VII and VIII (6, 7 and 8) were a series of British artillery siege howitzers on mobile carriages of a new design introduced in World War I. [note 1] They were designed by Vickers in Britain and produced by all four British artillery manufacturers but mainly by Armstrong and one American company.
Robert Alexander Bull was born at Stafford, Staffordshire, on 3 March 1778. [2] He entered the Royal Artillery in 1794, and saw service in the West Indies in 1796–1798. [ 2 ] He commanded I Troop (Bull's) Royal Horse Artillery in the Peninsular . [ 2 ]
A cannon from the Battle of Chancellorsville. The Great Turkish Bombards of the Siege of Constantinople, after being on display for four centuries, were used to battle a British fleet in 1807, in the Dardanelles Operation. The artillery hit a British ship with two 700 lb (320 kg) cannonballs, killing 60 sailors; in total, the cannons claimed ...
The 4th Continental Artillery Regiment, also known as Reign's Continental Artillery Regiment, was an American military unit during the American Revolutionary War. The regiment became part of the Continental Army on 10 June 1777 as Colonel Thomas Proctor's Continental Artillery Regiment. It was made up of eight artillery companies from eastern ...
The battery was formed on 1 February 1805 as I Troop, Royal Horse Artillery [1] at Colchester, Essex as a horse artillery battery of the British Army. [2] Captain Robert Bull was appointed to command and he took it to the Iberian Peninsula in August 1809 where it served until 1814.
Blakely rifle or Blakely gun is a series of rifled muzzle-loading cannon designed by British army officer Captain Theophilus Alexander Blakely in the 1850s and 1860s. [1] [2] Blakely was a pioneer in the banding and rifling of cannon but the British army declined to use Blakely's design. [3]