"Novak OOB and artillery" Topic
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dantheman | 02 Apr 2019 9:25 a.m. PST |
Novak more frequently lists manpower for artillery rather than actual guns. Any way to translate manpower to guns based on a rule of thumb, such as 1 gun per 100 men? |
historygamer | 02 Apr 2019 11:38 a.m. PST |
Not that I know of since the train of artillery often had more guns than could be manned at any given time. |
Der Alte Fritz | 02 Apr 2019 2:05 p.m. PST |
There were generally 8 men manning a single cannon plus there were likely addition support personnel. |
Virginia Tory | 03 Apr 2019 7:04 a.m. PST |
Not counting all the contract employees who usually moved the guns. |
historygamer | 03 Apr 2019 10:35 a.m. PST |
There really is no way to cross walk that idea as the number of gunners did not equate to the artillery found in the artillery train. Gunners were not permanently assigned to an individual gun, as in modern times. The guns assigned to support a brigade or any other task could change from day to day, or week to week. The right tools for the right job. Burgoyne had a huge artillery train, all out of proportion to the number of gunners he had. |
Old Contemptibles | 08 Apr 2019 3:34 p.m. PST |
He was planning a long siege of Ticonderoga. Didn't work out that way. |
historygamer | 10 Apr 2019 3:40 a.m. PST |
I think his plans for the guns went beyond Fort Ti, otherwise he would have left them there, which he didn't. It part, it was that large, cumbersome train that fatally slowed him down. |
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