"Battalion Guns in the ECW" Topic
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Robert Burke | 28 Dec 2019 12:24 p.m. PST |
I know that during the Thirty Years War, some armies (e.g. the Swedes) attached light guns to their heavy infantry units. I've never heard of this during the ECW but since so many officers during the ECW served on the Continent they must have known about the practice. Does anyone know of any instances where battalion guns were attached to heavy infantry units? |
MajorB | 28 Dec 2019 1:17 p.m. PST |
I don't think battalions existed in the English Civil War. |
Timmo uk | 28 Dec 2019 1:42 p.m. PST |
Infantry were formed into battalia, typically 400 – 600 strong. Battalions in all but name. Some OOB show numbers of very light artillery pieces so it's plausible that they operated in direct support of a specific unit for the duration of an action but I'm not aware of any evidence that light pieces belonged to a unit in any one of the main field armies, rather than the artillery train. |
KeepYourPowderDry | 28 Dec 2019 1:56 p.m. PST |
Timmo has put it very succinctly. |
Mollinary | 28 Dec 2019 2:10 p.m. PST |
The Streeter engraving of Naseby shows pairs of guns in the intervals between battalia in the Parliamentarian front line. |
zardoz1957 | 29 Dec 2019 8:04 p.m. PST |
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KeepYourPowderDry | 01 Jan 2020 12:44 p.m. PST |
We know precious little about frame guns, one barrel survives and there is a contemporaneous description "short feeld peeces, of three foot longe". We know that Leven's train of artillery had some 88 'fframes'; there is a mention that four were assigned to Lord Kirkcudbright's Regiment in 8th May 1645. Their frames were reported to be prone to breaking (two at Bolson Hill 1644, Killiecrankie 1689). |
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