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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
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 Armies of the First French Republic and the Rise of the Marshals of Napoleon I: The Armée du Nord. Vol. 1. Pickle Partners Publishing. ISBN 978-1-908692-24-5. Pivka, Otto von (1979). Armies of the Napoleonic Era. New York: Taplinger Publishing. ISBN 0-8008-5471-3. Rothenberg, Gunther (1980). The Art of War in the Age of Napoleon ...
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 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).
As for the infantry soldier himself, Napoleon primarily equipped his army with the Charleville M1777 Revolutionnaire musket, a product from older designs and models. Used during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, the Charleville musket was a .69 calibre, (sometimes .70 or .71) 5-foot-long (1.5 m), muzzle-loading, smoothbore musket.
Artillery of the Napoleonic Wars continued to use the cannon and howitzers of the previous century. These were smooth-bore, heavy, cast artillery pieces moved by limbers, usually at a slow pace. Siege artillery Siege artillery were very heavy cannon, howitzer and mortar artillery pieces used to force surrender of fortresses during a siege ...