"Spanish horse artillery 1808-1815" Topic

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Bad…? or because it's 1/72?…

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I think everyone is asleep.

There was Spanish horse artillery?

@Minipigs – Yes there was Spanish Horse Artillery

Information on Spanish Artillery: link

>>There was Spanish horse artillery?

On whose side?
Those are quite 'early French' styles showing…

<>They were 4-pdr guns which had been bored out to take an 8-pdr shot.

Err, then they weren't 4 punders any more… can't have had a long-life expectancy… teehee…

Er yes, nice modelling!
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Glad you like them my friend!. (smile)

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I thought horse artillery with larger pieces used empty shell cases (when not firing canister).

So light 12-lbers would use empty 12-lb shell cases.

So the re-bored 4 lber would use 8 lber empty shell case.

I knew someone would post something like that.

OK, so if you call yourself horse artillery and you dont have any horses, you're still a horse artillery unit?

I can live with that.

My Neapolitan Guard will be delighted to know they can go head to head with anyone's guard.

I cant wait to add a set to my Spanish army.

Shell cases? Perhaps I am missing something in translation. As far as I know the rounds themselves were a charge of powder, in a cloth bag, tied to the bottom of the sabot holding the roundshot or the tin cannister round. I don't understand where the shell case comes in, but then there is a lot of things I don't understand.

Sorry – should have written empty "common shell" – you know the classic "bomb" with fuse.

How interesting. I had never heard of an artillery unit firing an empty "common shell"…..to act as roundshot, but without HE contentto save weight. Considering that, against any "softskin target" it is velocity not mass that counts, must wonder why "hollow" rounds were not more common. If it stayed intact it would do just as much damage surely (I think)

From Agathon von Bahr on a napoleon forum

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"Por consiguiente, serán mas oportunos para esta Artillería Volante unos cañones de a 4, y unos

licomes (1) u obus-cañon formando con los mismos cañones de á 4; pues esto s, agrandadas sus ánimas, arrojarán unas granadas del calibre de las balas de á 8, y la metralla del mismo calibre.

¿ Quien dudará que estas piezas serán las mas ventajosas para el uso de la Artillería Volante con nuestra Caballeria ?

Teniendo estos licornes y cañones de á 4 la fuerza y alcance necesario ó bien para desordenar.

(1) Licorne es un canon de menos, longitud ,y refuerzos que los correspondientes á su calibre destinado á tirar granadas y metralla. Los rusos, que les han dado el nombre, los usan de todos. calibres en lugar de obuses.": link

The Spanish artillery arm adopted the French Gribeauval System and so used the field pieces for both foot and horse artillery.

In the picture of the gun crew above, the field piece should have two handspikes for pointing the piece. One gunner would use both at once to move the gun tube left and right directing by the gunner who is behind the gun tube pointing the piece.

Information on the Spanish artillery arm can be found in Rene Chartrand's Ospreys on the Spanish army of the period.

in the picture of the gun crew above, the field piece should have two handspikes for pointing the piece. One gunner would use both at once to move the gun tube left and right directing by the gunner who is behind the gun tube pointing the piece

Agreed, I don't know of a manufacturer in any scale does a French, or gunner for an army using the Gribeauval system, two handspikes.

I only know of one manufacture, GHQ in 10mm, that models Gribeauval guns with twin handspikes attached to the gun.