"1799 Italian campain artillery compositions?" Topic
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heavyhorse | 06 Sep 2014 2:35 p.m. PST |
anyone have any actual battery compositions for Russian and French forces in Italy and later in Switzerland in 1799..numbers and poundage of guns in batteries..I did check Nafziger and got just totals of guns but no actual organizations and compositions of the batteries thanks |
xxxxxxx | 06 Sep 2014 10:46 p.m. PST |
For Suvarov's guns …. TMP link The 25 little guns were allocated mostly on the basis of 1 gun per regiment/2 battalions, plus 2 guns in reserve per division/detachment. - Sasha |
dantheman | 07 Sep 2014 11:07 a.m. PST |
The link above was for the Alps. Suvorov did have other guns while in the Po Valley. However, Christopher Duffy says artillery counts are as 'rare as hens teeth' and he wrote a good book on that campaign. As far as the French are concerned I also found little. I even went as far as looking at copies of the original troop counts in French. As an anglophone with minimal knowledge of French the best I got was manpower counts, no mention of the artillery served. I guess you could extrapolate from that but I didn't bother. In short, any comprehensive source of info on this would be much appreciated by me as well. |
heavyhorse | 07 Sep 2014 12:36 p.m. PST |
I have the same trouble..Nafziger gives some totals for artillery in number of guns but no poundage or organization..since I am doing mainly the Pre Swiss Italian 1799 Russia vs French match up I will just wing it but Thanks for the good try |
xxxxxxx | 07 Sep 2014 2:17 p.m. PST |
I am not a specialist for 1799, but for Suarov in Italy I think this is about right …. Commanding the artillery General-Major Ivan Khristianovich Sivers Reserve artillery : - Gen-Maj Sivers' field artillery company, under the command of captain Ivanov-1 : 4x standard 12-pounders, 4x short 12-pounders, 4x 1/2-pud (24-lber caliber) unicorns - Major Kuz'min's field artillery company : 4x standard 12-pounders, 4x short 12-pounders, 4x 1/2-pud (24-lber caliber) unicorns 632 all ranks including train Regimental artillery : - 3 companies broken-up to provide battalion guns : 18x 6-lbers, 18x 1/4-pud (12-lber caliber) unicorns allocated roughly one piece per infantry battalions (with a few spares). It is possible that some of these were the slightly small older unicorns called "8-lber", but I think an expeditionary force would have gotten mostly the newest equipment. It is very unlikley that any of the battalion guns were the old 3-lbers, as Suvarov was so concerned about getting his "big" guns over the Alps that he replaced them. 672 all ranks including train Rimskiy-Kosakov's artillery was similar, but had a horse company (Bogdanov's) as one of two reserve companies – equipped with 6x 6-lbers and 6x 1/4-pud (12-lber calibre) unicorns. - Sasha |
heavyhorse | 07 Sep 2014 2:20 p.m. PST |
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