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A military dictionary : $b or, Explanation of the several systems of discipline of different kinds of troops, infantry, artillery, and cavalry: the principles of fortification, and all the modern improvements in the science of tactics: comprising the pocket gunner, or little bombardier, the military regulations of the United States: the weights, measures, and monies of all nations: the technical terms and phrases of the art of war in the French language: particularly adapted to the use of the Duane, William

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A military dictionary : $b or, Explanation of the several systems of discipline of different kinds of troops, infantry, artillery, and cavalry: the principles of fortification, and all the modern improvements in the science of tactics: comprising the pocket gunner, or little bombardier, the military regulations of the United States: the weights, measures, and monies of all nations: the technical terms and phrases of the art of war in the French language: particularly adapted to the use of the

Name: A military dictionary : $b or, Explanation of the several systems of discipline of different kinds of troops, infantry, artillery, and cavalry: the principles of fortification, and all the modern improvements in the science of tactics: comprising the pocket gunner, or little bombardier, the military regulations of the United States: the weights, measures, and monies of all nations: the technical terms and phrases of the art of war in the French language: particularly adapted to the use of the
Author: Duane, William

Duane, William

English language -- Terms and phrases; Military art and science -- Dictionaries

+--------+------------+------------+------------+-----+------+
  |        | Austrians. | Prussians. |   Danes.   |Hanoverians.|
  | KINDS. +-----+------+-----+------+-----+------+-----+------+
  |        |Case.|Round.|Case.|Round.|Case.|Round.|Case.|Round.|
  +--------+-----+------+-----+------+-----+------+-----+------+
  | 3 Pr.  |  40 |  184 |  20 |  90  |  58 |  177 |  50 |  150 |
  | 6 Pr.  |  36 |  176 |  30 | 150  |  53 |  166 |  48 |  144 |
  |12 Pr.  |  44 |   94 |  20 | 130  |  44 |  128 |  50 |  150 |
  |Howitzer|  16 |   90 |  20 |  60  |  25 |   76 |  30 |  120 |
  +--------+-----+------+-----+------+-----+------+-----+------+

Of the movements and positions of field artillery.

_Battalion Guns_; the following are the usual positions taken by
battalion guns, in the most essential manœuvres of the battalion to
which they are attached; but the established regulations for the
movements of the infantry in the British service, take so little notice
of the relative situations for the artillery attached to it, that
they afford no authority for a guide on the subject. In review, both
guns are to be placed, when in line, on the right of the regiment;
unlimbered and prepared for action. The guns 10 yards apart, and
the left gun 10 yards from the right of the battalion. Nos. 7 and 8
dress in line with the front rank of the regiment. The officer, at
open order, will be in front of the interval between his guns, and in
line with the officers of the regiment. When the regiment breaks into
column, the guns will be limbered up and wheeled by pairs to the left:
the men form the line of march, and the officer marches round in front
of the guns. In the review of a single battalion, it is usual after
marching round the second time, for one of the guns to go to the rear,
and fall in at the rear of the column. Upon the regiment wheeling on
the left into line, the guns, if separated, will be unlimbered to
the right, but if they are both upon the right, they must be wheeled
to the right, and then unlimbered; and afterwards run up by hand, as
thereby they do not interfere with the just formation of the line, by
obstructing the view of the pivots.

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