Regimental piece

As Regiment piece of a light field gun was called that in the battle , the infantry associations accompanied and not the artillery was counted.

Regimental pieces were introduced during the Thirty Years' War by the Swedish King Gustav Adolf by assigning two light guns to each infantry regiment . For the first time, specially assigned soldiers took over the operation. This made it possible to do without many gunsmiths . This was taken over by the other European armies. With the formation of lighter artillery - batteries in the French army of Napoleon , the regiment pieces in the other armies disappeared.

The regimental pieces were mostly 3-pounder cannons , rarely 6-pounders . They were driven from the box by a limber in the mostly two-horse train . d. H. the driver sat on the limber, made mobile. Short Run battle it could also Mannschaftszug be moved.

Schematic representation of a regimental piece in motion and in position

List of regimental items after Montecuccoli

See also Light Infantry Gun 18

literature

Georg Ortenburg: Weapons and the use of weapons in the age of the Landsknechte , Bernard & Graefe, Koblenz, 1984, ISBN 3-7637-5461-X

Weapons and the Use of Weapons in the Age of Cabinet Wars , Bernard & Graefe, Koblenz, 1986, ISBN 3-7637-5463-6

Remarks

↑ In the Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern era, piece was the name for a gun
↑ Since the middle of the 16th century, the size of the guns was expressed by the weight of the bullet.

[1] In the Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern era, piece was the name for a gun

[2] Since the middle of the 16th century, the size of the guns was expressed by the weight of the bullet.