"Regimental guns in ECW" Topic
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Kadrinazi | 08 Sep 2017 1:06 a.m. PST |
Bit puzzled by this: were regimental guns (as attached to the foot regiments) used during ECW at all? Royal armies seems like bit starved of the artillery anyway, so I would though not but what about Parliament and then NMA? Any help in that matter would be appreciated. |
Sobieski | 08 Sep 2017 1:48 a.m. PST |
Don't know the answer, but you've got me intrigued too. The Swedes certainly knew the trick, of course, so it was surely a possibility. |
Kadrinazi | 08 Sep 2017 1:56 a.m. PST |
Well, continental armies did use them fine, it's more about whether such guns (and trained crews) were available during ECW :) |
GurKhan | 08 Sep 2017 2:01 a.m. PST |
There's a blog post at link in which one of the commenters says: I'd like to pick-up though on the 3 pounder question. I'd argue without doubt these were designed as regimental pieces to be moved with the infantry battalions. … There is little by way of contemporary reference to three pounders being moved-up with advancing infantry, though at Second Newbury Manchester's troops advanced on Shaw House with two drakes. |
BigRedBat | 08 Sep 2017 4:12 a.m. PST |
There was a recent piece on this in the Pike and Shot society's magazine, Arquebusier. From memory, I think the gist of it was that most artillery pieces were not at all easy to move around the battlefield on account of their weight. I'd expect to see such pieces set up at the start of a battle, but not likely to move much during the battle. As an aside, the Royalists had a couple of galloper guns at Roundway Down- proto-horse artillery. |
GurKhan | 08 Sep 2017 4:59 a.m. PST |
And of course there's PDF link about Scots leather guns, including the use of a couple of Wemyss' multi-barrelled pieces by Waller in 43-44, _but_ I don't think there's anything to indicate that either Waller or the Scots used them tactically as regimental guns. |
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