Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net ARTILLERY THROUGH THE AGES A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Fred A. Seaton, _Secretary_ NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Conrad L. Wirth, _Director_ For sale by the Superintendent of Documents U. S. Government Printing Office Washington 25, D. C. -- Price 35 cents (_Cover_) FRENCH 12-POUNDER FIELD GUN (1700-1750) ARTILLERY THROUGH THE AGES A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America _by_ _ALBERT MANUCY_ _Historian Southeastern National Monuments_ Drawings by Author Technical Review by Harold L. Peterson _National Park Service Interpretive Series History No. 3_ UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE _WASHINGTON: 1949_ (Reprint 1956) Many of the types of cannon described in this booklet may be seen in areas of the National Park System throughout the country. Some parks with especially fine collections are: CASTILLO DE SAN MARCOS NATIONAL MONUMENT, seventeenth and eighteenth century field and garrison guns. CHICKAMAUGA AND CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, Civil War field and siege guns. COLONIAL NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK, seventeenth and eighteenth century field and siege guns, eighteenth century naval guns. FORT MCHENRY NATIONAL MONUMENT AND HISTORIC SHRINE, early nineteenth century field guns and Civil War garrison guns. FORT PULASKI NATIONAL MONUMENT, Civil War garrison guns. GETTYSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, Civil War field guns. PETERSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, Civil War field and siege guns. SHILOH NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, Civil War field guns. VICKSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, Civil War field and siege guns. The National Park System is dedicated to conserving the scenic, scientific, and historic heritage of the United States for the benefit and enjoyment of its people. CONTENTS THE ERA OF ARTILLERY The Ancient Engines of War Gunpowder Comes to Europe The Bombards Sixteenth Century Cannon The Seventeenth Century and Gustavus Adolphus The Eighteenth Century United States Guns of the Early 1800's Rifling The War Between the States The Change into Modern Artillery