"Size of battery" Topic

Cam anyone please assist with some information on the number of guns deployed in batteries of the various nations. I am particularly interested in the WAS and SYW.
I did some research and it seems the Prussians usually had ten 12pdrs per battery, and the 6pdrs seem to be 4 gun batteries.

Mal,

The battery, as we know if from the Napoleonic Wars and later, did not exist as such during the WAS/SYW. Guns were assigned in whatever number was available and fit with the general's plan of maneuver. The lighter guns (3-, 4-, and eventually 6-lbrs) were normally assigned as battalion pieces while the heavier guns provided general battlefield support (to use a modern term).

I hope that has somewhat answered your question.

Jim
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I have read that they operated battalion guns in two gun sections.

Remember, too, that it's not the size that matters so much as how you use it.

Thanks.
I found lots of reference to battalion guns being in two gun sections, so that seems to have been common.

ColCampbell. I am returning to this era after some years absence doing other things, so my memory of it all is pretty rusty.
I do however, have this nagging memory, that there was comment somewhere about some French batteries being rather too small at 4 guns.