The bombardier, and pocket gunnerAdye, Ralph Willett
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The bombardier, and pocket gunner
Adye, Ralph Willett
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One common pattern ammunition waggon carries the following numbers of
rounds of ammunition of each nature:
| No. of
Nature. | Rounds
-------------------+--------
12 Prs. Medium. | 72
6 Prs. Heavy. | 120
6 Prs. Light. | 156
3 Prs. | 288
5½ How’r. | 72
8 Inch How’r. | 24
Musquet. | 20000[3]
The waggons, however, attached to the different parks of artillery in
England, which have not been altered from the old establishment, are
loaded with only the following number, and drawn by three horses:
[2] A small limber box has lately been added to the medium 12 Prs.
which carries 6 round shot and 6 case shot, with a small proportion of
the small stores. See note page 11.
[3] Though the waggons will contain 20,000 cartridges, it is customary
to load them with only 18 half barrels of 1000 each, and 2 half barrels
of flints.
| No. of
Nature. | Rounds
-----------------+--------
12 Prs. Medium. | 66
6 Prs. Heavy. | 120
6 Prs. Light. | 138
5½ How’r. | 60
The horse artillery having waggons of a particular description, carry
their ammunition as follows:
+----------------------------+------------+-------+----------+------+
| | Shot. | | |Total |
| +------+-----+ | | No. |
| |Round.|Case.|Shells.|Carcasses.| with |
| | | | | | each |
| | | | | |Piece.|
+----------------------------+------+-----+-------+----------+------+
|12 Prs. light, on the limber| 12 | 4 | 4 | — | 92 |
|Do. ” ” in one waggon| 52 | 10 | 10 | — | |
+----------------------------+------+-----+-------+----------+------+
|6 Prs. light, on the limber | 32 | 8 | — | — | 150 |
|Do. in one waggon | 97 | 13 | — | — | |
+----------------------------+------+-----+-------+----------+------+
|5½ In. How’r on the limber| — | 5 | 13 | — | 73 |
|Do. in one waggon | — | 10 | 41 | 4 | |
+----------------------------+------+-----+-------+----------+------+
|3 Prs. heavy, curricle | 6 | 6 | — | — | 136 |
|Do. ammunition cart| 100 | 24 | — | — | |
+----------------------------+------+-----+-------+----------+------+
_The following Proportion of Artillery, Ammunition, and Carriages,
necessary for four French Armies of different Degrees of Strength, and
acting in very different Countries, is attributed to_ GRIBAUVALE, _and
is extracted from_ DURTUBIE, _on_ Artillery.
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