Napoleon’s Artillery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Napoleon’s Artillery write by Robert Wilkinson-Latham. This book was released on 1975-06-15. Napoleon’s Artillery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the end of the Royalist regime, the artillery arm of the French Army was, as Napoleon was later to declare, "the finest and best composed corps in Europe." Designed by the great master of artillery, Jean Baptiste de Gribeauval, the equipment consisted of some of the best pieces in Europe. This book examines the equipment and performance of Napoleon's artillery in the Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802), Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815) and Waterloo campaign (1815). The organization of the Imperial Army is also covered, including the key French failure to develop "Shrapnel" or "spherical case shot" - a weapon used against them to great effect by the British.
Artillery Of Napoleonic Wars
Artillery Of Napoleonic Wars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Artillery Of Napoleonic Wars write by Kevin F. Kiley. This book was released on 2004-01-06. Artillery Of Napoleonic Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this detailed study Kevin Kiley looks at artillery in use throughout the Napoleonic period. He examines Napoleons own artillery as well as that employed by his enemies, and he evaluates the gunners contribution to warfare in the period. By looking at particular battles in detail, Kevin Kiley shows just how the effective employment of artillery could tip the scales of victory.
Napoleonic Artillery
Napoleonic Artillery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Napoleonic Artillery write by Paul L. Dawson. This book was released on 2008-05-15. Napoleonic Artillery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Napoleonic Wars gripped Europe, and beyond, for over ten years at the beginning of the Nineteenth century. Hundreds of battles were fought between the armies of France (and its allies) and all those powers that wished to see Napoleon Bonaparte stopped in his tracks and an end to the French Empire. The battles and sieges of the Napoleonic Wars, which cost the lives of between 3 and 6 million men, made unprecedented use of large guns, and every participating army possessed a range of artillery. With the wars covering such a long period of time, and with so many armies involved, the subject of Napoleonic artillery is a complicated one, and no work has attempted to examine all the weapons involved in a single, detailed volume. Until now. The product of years of research, this book presents most of what is known about the artillery pieces of the Napoleonic Wars. Including numerous drawings, contemporary illustrations and modern photographs of surviving guns, it will be an invaluable addition to the library of historians, modellers, wargamers and re-enactors.
Napoleon's Guns 1792–1815 (1)
Napoleon's Guns 1792–1815 (1) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Napoleon's Guns 1792–1815 (1) write by René Chartrand. This book was released on 2003-02-19. Napoleon's Guns 1792–1815 (1) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As a young gunner, Napoleon Bonaparte was trained in one of Europe's finest artillery arms. Both the technological sophistication of their weaponry and the skill of their gunners was largely the result of the adoption of the system devised by one man, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval. Gribeauval's standardised system of parts and calibres allowed a degree of uniformity and sophistication in the French artillery that was unmatched throughout Europe, and allowed Napoleon to inherit and develop an arm that could dominate the battlefield. This volume covers the field artillery pieces of the system: the 4-, 8- and 12-pdr guns; light 1-pdr guns and mountain guns; and later innovations such as the 6-pdr gun.
Napoleon's Specialist Troops
Napoleon's Specialist Troops - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Napoleon's Specialist Troops write by Philip Haythornthwaite. This book was released on 2012-06-20. Napoleon's Specialist Troops available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Though less celebrated than the infantry and cavalry, Napoleon's 'specialist' troops – artillery, engineers and supporting services – were indispensable elements without which no army could have operated, and frequently assumed greater significance than the line regiments. Indeed, having suffered least from the emigration of Royalist officers, the artillery was the best element of the early Republican armies, the nucleus of the old Royal artillery serving with distinction in the early campaigns such as Valmy. The organisation and uniform of Napoleon's specialist troops are here examined by Philip Haythornwaite in a engaging volume complemented by a wealth of illustrations including eight full page colour plates by Bryan Fosten.
